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Positive reference to Muslims requires balance? (Kristof)

A wave of American bigotry toward Muslims has reached new heights, according to New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, with the publication of a front-page apology in Maine’s Portland Press Herald.…
NY Times boss outlines accountability measures

The New York Times‘s various mechanisms for accountability to readers and subjects, include, according to its executive editor, not just the public editor but a managing editor and associate editor designated to…
Codes of ethics

Many journalism organizations offer ethics guidelines, including the Canadian Association of Journalists, which has both a general statement of principles for ethical journalism and an expanded ethics guidelines. Some other journalist' codes of…
Guess which Toronto newspaper….

Not-a-lot-of-skill-testing question: which “local newspaper” does the Toronto Star mean when it reports: “Two and a half hours earlier, Ford was hosting a news conference to explain why it appeared he had…
How do you say mea culpa, 140 characters at a time?

In which Ivor Shapiro, an old-dog reporter who just happens to be J-Source's Ethics editor, explains how he learned, first-hand, that the new tricks of real-time reporting can be perilous. As a…
CAJ ethics report: Guidelines for re-tweeting or re-posting information found in social media

CAJ Ethics Report – Reposting and Retweeting by jsource2007
McIntosh decision: cork the champagne, but uncap a beer

After nine years in court, the National Post has been ordered to hand over its Shawinigate document in a Supreme Court ruling that offers mixed results for the protection of sources. The…
Alternative journalism: from slur to Pulitzer

A week after ProPublica accepts one of journalism’s top prizes for a story funded by foundations and universities, Cecil Rosner examines the growing trend of non-profit, non-partisan investigative journalism. Will it be…
An open letter about the CAJ

Former board member Deborah Campbell, one of many supporters of the Canadian Association of Journalists who abandoned it in 2004-2005, explains why she left — and why she thinks the CAJ cannot move…
Deadly images

Conflict photographers explain their thinking behind their iconic shots in “The Shooting War,” a powerful photographic essay on the Foreign Policy web site.