Toronto Star updates standards: Sydney Smith describes new guidelines that mesh long-standing principles with current digital realities.
New policies call for greater transparency, labels for news and opinion and reluctance to unpublish except for rare circumstances.
Recycled interviews deemed unethical: Sydney Smith writes that National Public Radio discovered a freelance reporter laced old interviews with current stories without disclosure.
Listeners might have thought the comments were new, said NPR, but some were months or years old. That was misleading, said NPR, and not in line with editorial standards. NPR will not use the reporter’s work in the future.
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