Sylvia Stead Archives - iMediaEthics

Why the Toronto Star Stopped identifying an 11-year-old girl who made up Hijab Attack

An 11-year-old Toronto girl claimed earlier this month that her hijab had been cut on her way to school. The...

The Toronto Star published 1,179 corrections in 2017 -- 819 online and 360 in print, the newspaper's public editor, Kathy...

Two Canadian public editors revealed how many corrections their respective papers -- the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star --...

It was fair and accurate for the Globe and Mail to report that some fans attending a Baltimore Orioles-Toronto Blue...

Online commenting seems to constantly be a problem for news organizations, with NPR deciding to drop the feature on its...

The Globe and Mail apologized after plagiarism was found in two columns by Margaret Wente. Public editor Sylvia Stead confirmed...

The Globe and Mail published "around 40" corrections each month in 2015, public editor Sylvia Stead reported. That is "down...

Globe and Mail readers were not happy that the Canadian newspaper published pictures of a dead Syrian child on the...

Sourcing is on the mind of at least three public editors this summer. Chris Elliott (readers editor for the UK Guardian),...

The Globe and Mail published 450 corrections in 2014, public editor Sylvia Stead reported. Stead noted that while it's "certainly...