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Avoiding real and perceived conflicts of interest
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February 8, 2010 - Posted by Regan Ray
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Avoiding conflicts of interest — both real and perceived
— has always been important in journalism ethics because they can cause readers to "question the integrity of the journalists
work," writes Toronto Star
public editor Kathy English. In a recent column, "Full
disclosure for journalists,"
English addresses two specific reader complaints she received at the Star. Both were related to...
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Ottawa newsroom, archives, lost in CTV fire
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February 7, 2010 - Posted by Deborah Jones
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A fire Sunday destroyed CTV's Ottawa newsroom, at the station CJOH, said many reports. The cause, and how local broadcasts would be affected, was uncertain Sunday.
"Among the devastating property losses are the local news archives of this city's history and the 37-year video history of anchor Max Keeping who is set to retire on April 1," reported CTV.
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Arianna Huffington: pirate publisher or saviour of newspapers?
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February 5, 2010 - Posted by Regan Ray
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"A few years ago, Arianna Huffington, a 59-year-old immigrant from Greece, secured millions of dollars of other people's money to launch an internet newspaper modestly called the Huffington Post," writes Ira Basen in his most recent CBC Media Watch column. "Now, nearly five years later, with the mainstream media reeling, the one fact about Arianna Huffington that is not in dispute is that she and her Huffington Post are clearly bucking the trend." Will her model help save newspapers or will it have precisely the opposite effect?
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Information not free in British Columbia: report
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February 4, 2010 - Posted by Deborah Jones
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The government of British Columbia breaks its own law on meeting freedom of information requests nearly half the time, reports a legal study on freedom of information. Or, in the words of a newspaper headline, the province is accused of "rampant censorship" ....
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Ottawa releases pictures of data to ATI requesters
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February 1, 2010 - Posted by Fred Vallance-Jones
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A number of journalists filing requests for data to federal departments are finding the "data" has been converted to image files, quite literally pictures of data, prior to release. This has the potential to take access to electronic records back a decade if the trend spreads.
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Is Apple's iPad "underwhelming" or "a game changer"?
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January 28, 2010 - Posted by Regan Ray
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After a whole lot of hype about Apple's newest "creation," the company launched the iPad yesterday in San Francisco. Even
before the existence of the device had been confirmed, enthusiastic
tech and media watchers were wondering if Steve Jobs' latest wonder
product was going to sweep in and save the publishing world.
And the predictions continue. For instance...
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Q media panel debates Haiti coverage
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January 27, 2010 - Posted by Regan Ray
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A media panel gathered on CBC Radio's Q,
hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, debated whether the coverage of the earthquake in
Haiti has been "verging on 'disaster
porn'." The panelists were Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank, author and Rabble founder Judy Rebick and columnist Norman Spector. Here's a sampling of what was said...
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To be or not to be “ethnic” media
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January 26, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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Panelists at a recent Toronto event weigh in on the use of the term "ethnic" to refer to the growing phenomenon that is multicultural media. Is it a label to be proud of, or an archaic term that's due to be cast aside?
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Fearless Five brave Facebook and Twitter
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January 22, 2010 - Posted by Deborah Jones
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On Feb. 1, five journalists will reportedly lock themselves up in a French farmhouse for several days with only Twitter and Facebook for outside information, "to test the quality of news from the social networking and micro-blogging sites" ....
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 Town Hall of J-Source evolved from the Canadian Journalist weblog, by journalists for journalists. Please join the discussion by clicking Comments, whether on this page or anywhere else on the site. Deborah Jones is an independent journalist who has written for Agence France-Presse, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Time and other publications.
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During "climategate" some of the declarations made under prominent bylines demonstrated professional negligence, writes 