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Globe public editor: The case for paying for Rob Ford photographs

The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead says the newspaper did something unprecedented–paying a source $10,000 for a series of photographs showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what was described by a drug dealer as crack cocaine.  By Sylvia Stead, public editor for The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail did something that I…