• From left to right, panelists Ivor Shapiro, Lee-Anne Goodman and James Turk. Photo courtesy Robert Liwanag.

    Journalists should not be neutral, says Centre for Free Expression director

    By Robert Liwanag Neutrality in journalism limits the civil liberties of reporters and should be abandoned, said the director of Ryerson University’s Centre for Free Expression during a recent panel discussion. Citing CNN’s two-week suspension of global affairs correspondent Elise Labott over a tweet last November, James Turk said neutrality fails to distinguish an institution’s…