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    Wente and Dowd cell phone columns: Too close to call?

    A column by The Globe and Mail‘s Margaret Wente so closely resembles one written by The New York Times‘s Maureen Dowd that at least one blog is suggesting she stole it. Anne…

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    CBC reporter reassigned after Tories complain

    Reporter Krista Erickson acted inappropriately and with “journalistic zeal” said CBC News publisher  John Cruickshank in a letter to the Conservative Party. The party had complained of “collusion” to the CBC Ombudsman…

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    Teaching online journalism ethics

    Journalists using social networking sites, photo sharing sites and other new media technologies to gather information face new ethical challenges. Journalists are being forced to re-evaluate such questions as “What is in the…

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    Ethical guidelines for editing audio

    ByMary McGuire Reporters in every media now record audio for use on the web, with audio slideshows, multimedia packages and other forms of online journalism, in addition to those who do it in radio.…