On the Canadian road to a national press council
As a battle royal plays out in Britain over the future of press accountability, Canada’s newspaper industry is taking slow and cautious steps toward the overhaul of this country’s “broken” system of self-regulation.
Plans to create a national press council in Canada are moving forward. But expect a long road ahead before this comes about, says Toronto Star Public Editor Kathy English.
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Print can still trump the smartphone
The usually negative hive mind of the Internet has been bashing print media as hopelessly backward for so long now that the snark has become passé. But readers often remind me, says Kansas City Star Readers’ Representative Derek Donovan, that some information will forever be better in print.
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‘Scene-of-the-crime’ corrections
Four in five Observer readers can see the value in putting all our mea culpas in one place, says Stephen Pritchard, readers’ editor at The Observer.
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