HIV/AIDS is a contentious and sensitive topic to cover anywhere in the world.  But reporting on HIV/AIDS in the South African context poses an especially complicated ethical challenge. Politicization of the pandemic, tensions surrounding the …

Reached on November 1st of 1995, the Dayton Peace Agreement is known as the agreement that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement created an institutional ethnic division in Bosnia through the creation …

“It was a cool Tuesday in December 2005 and I almost got on board a C-130 plane, which was bound for a war-game zone on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf,” remembers 38-year-old Iranian …

“Growing up in Vancouver, we always had two newspapers. When I moved to the [Sunshine] Coast I always had at least one and would watch probably the early news and the 11 o’clock news in …

In the 1880s, Joseph Pulitzer hung a sign in the newsroom of his paper, the New York World, which read: “The World has no friends.” It is an historic example of journalistic independence, a value …

Confidential sources have been of enormous value to journalists and the public at large. The information they have brought to light has helped expose truths such as the corruption of a U.S. president, unethical business …

This article explores how the U.S. legal system protects journalists’ confidential sources and the threats that reporters face. In particular, this article highlights recent trends in judgments by the U.S federal court to limit the …

The right of journalists to use and protect confidential sources is being hotly debated in Canadian newsrooms and courthouses. Many journalists say that confidential sources are an essential tool in the search to uncover information …

So you’ve been offended by a journalist. Maybe it was Mark Steyn’s assertion that Islam is taking over the world that got to you. Or Ezra Levant’s reprinting of the Muhammad cartoons. Or perhaps you …