CBC updates its journalistic standards guide
CBC provided a much-needed update to its Journalistic Standards and Practices guide Wednesday. The document includes a section on social media use for the first time, making the point that, for information-gathering, ”we apply the same standards as those for any other source of newsgathering.” There are two elements worth noting: It sets out a standard for [...]
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The CAJ is examining the ethics of journalists forwarding information they haven’t verified.
Authored by Tim Currie, Assistant Professor of Journalism (Online Journalism) at the