by Sydney Smith on Oct 13, 2010
Undercover : Toronto Star Public Editor Defends Nursing Home Expose
The Toronto Star's public editor Kathy English used her Oct. 9 public editor column to explain why one of the newspaper's...
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by Sydney Smith on Oct 01, 2010
Public Editor: Toronto Star Should have Reported Newborn’s Death
The Toronto Star's public editor, Kathy English, explained in her Sept. 25 column that "newspapers have a duty to report...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 30, 2010
Should Newspapers Delete Published Police Records? Editors explain policies
Thanks to the Internet, a simple Google search of a person’s name can now quickly turn up that police record you...
by Danielle Elliot on Dec 12, 2009
Online Editing: to Update? to Edit? to Unpublish? to do Nothing?
Toronto Star public editor Kathy English researched the practice of editing online news and unpublishing in a 21-page report, "The...
by Danielle Elliot on Feb 06, 2009
Famed Nikita Khrushchev Shoe Banging Story Long In Doubt:
Assumptions about common knowledge can be very dangerous. As the saying goes, a journalist even needs to check "if his mother loves him."...