Heather Li was the Online Editor for the Spring 2009 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. One Ombud is Better than Two Reporters
Heather Mallick's incendiary column on cbc.ca and CTV's decision to air Stéphane Dion's botched interview gave journalists plenty to talk about this fall. But discussion is one thing; the power to act is another. So Heather Li asks former Toronto Star ombud Don Sellar about a job held by only two people in English Canada
In September, Heather Mallick wrote a cbc.ca column about Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin that sparked hundreds of complaints and questions about how editors could allow it to run. Then, during the federal election campaign in early October, CTV aired the false starts of an interview with then-Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, even though reporter Steve […]
Blame Game
After Masthead, the magazine industry's trade publication, announced its next issue would be its last, Heather Li discovered the usual suspects—weak ad sales and a small circulation—may not have acted alone
On Thursday October 23, Doug Bennet, publisher of Masthead, asked editor Marco Ursi, to meet him in the lunchroom. He told Ursi that, after 21 years in print, the November/December 2008 issue of the magazine would be its last. “Oh fuck,” said Ursi, who had been editor for just over a year. “Yeah.… Oh fuck,” repeated Bennet, […]
