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Blown Coverage What Lessons Did Media Outlets Learn After They Reported Incorrect Details About a Brutal Sexual Assault That Made National Headlines? 03 6 72006 86194 Plus: Some of the country’s top journalists explain how they got their stories BLOWN COVERAGE WHAT LESSONS DID MEDIA OUTLETS LEARN AFTER THEY REPORTED INCORRECT DETAILS ABOUT A BRUTAL SEXUAL ASSAULT THAT MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES? 03 6 72006 86194 7 THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS WINTER 2008 • VOLUME 13, NUMBER 3 • $3.95 L’ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES JOURNALISTES– Winter 2008 Volume 13, Number 3 Publisher Nick Russell INSIDE Editor DEPARTMENTS David McKie 4 First Word Back to school. The theme of this edition is learning, as we are taken behind the scenes Books Editor of some major stories. By David McKie Gillian Steward 5 JournalismNet Staying ahead of the curve is easier if you use Web sites that have helped good reporters Legal Advisor become smarter. By Julian Sher Peter Jacobsen (Bersenas Jacobsen Chouest 6 Inside the Numbers Some polls might possess a seductive charm. But before publishing the results, it's Thomson Blackburn LLP) important to ask some key questions. By Kelly Toughill Designer 8 How They Got The Story The Toronto Star's Robert Cribb began wondering about the safety of daycare centres. Bonanza Printing Two years later, he uncovered some answers that prompted the province of Ontario to & Copying Centre Inc. react — immediately! Printer 10 How They Got The Story The Ottawa Citizen's Glen McGregor was in the midst of building a database to track Bonanza Printing federal election expenses when he came across a startling discovery that now has the & Copying Centre Inc. Conservative party reeling. Editorial Board FEATURES Chris Cobb, 12 Feature Covering sexual assault. When a perpetrator sexually assaulted a student at Carleton Wendy McLellan, University in Ottawa, the incident became a national story with graphic details, Sean Moore, including the fact that she was raped. The problem is she says she wasn't. Media Catherine Ford, outlets got it wrong. But what did they learn from the experience, if anything? Media Michelle MacAfee, magazine sent Kimberly Shearon to find some answers. Lindsay Crysler, John Gushue, 14 Interview The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control considers sexual assault to be an Rob Cribb, epidemic. So why is it that so few media organizations have strategies for covering the Rob Washburn issue? Media sat down with Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute and listened to some sage advice. Advertising Sales John Dickins 18 Interview The fall of an icon: When Quebec cyclist Geneviève Jeanson was forced to admit that drugs helped her win races, the story hit like a bomb in that province. Investigative Administrative Director journalist Alain Gravel had the biggest story in his 30-year career. Naila Jinnah spoke John Dickins with Gravel about the effort it took to finally get the story that uncovered the dark side (613)526-8061 Fax: (613)521-3904 of Jeanson's meteoric rise to the top of the cycling world. E-mail: [email protected] 20 Ideas Few people have heard the term "crowdsourcing." But this is a new way of doing MEDIA is published three times journalism that could either be a boon to a profession struggling for ways to stay a year by: relevant and profitable, or another in the long line of failed experiments.By Sheila Dabu Canadian Association of Journalists, DEPARTMENTS 1385 Woodroffe Avenue., B-224 Algonquin College 22 Book Review Case studies in investigative journalism.A new book features some of the best Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8 investigative stories and hears from the journalists behind the work. By Fred Vallance-Jones Reproduction without the written permission of the publisher is 23 Fine Print Last rites for publication bans. The days of non-discretionary publication bans might strictly forbidden be numbered. By Dean Jobb Media is a publication of the 24 Writer’s Toolbox Story ideas. They rarely just materialize. Instead, you must develop a plan to find and Canadian Association of Journalists. nurture them. By Don Gibb It is managed and edited independently from the CAJ and its 26 Computer-Assisted Reporting Two Ontario court rulings could be bad news for gaining access to electronic records. contents do not necessarily reflect By Fred Vallance-Jones the views of the Association. 27 Social Networking Sites Facebook is emerging into a valuable social networking site for journalists tracking Subscriptions: $14.98 down sources for their stories. By Natalie Johnson (GST incl.) per year, payable in advance 30 The Last Word Hip radio and the decline of public broadcasting. Ottawa playwright and theatre director Arthur Milner argues that CBC Radio is abandoning the formula that created Indexed in the Canadian a Canadian appetite for public broadcasting. Periodical Index. Canada Post Publications Canadian ONLINE EXTRAS The winners of the 2007 Canadian Association of Journalists awards explain how they Mail Sales Product Agreement got their stories and offer tips for journalists considering similar investigations. No. 182796 ISSN 1198-2209 Paul Watson,a foreign correspondent with The Los Angeles Times, has written a book about the photo that led to his Pulitzer Prize. In an interview with Media magazine, Cover Photo he talks about the story that took him to the brink of madness. Heather Montgomery Ellin Bessner shares her thoughts about the plagiarism bedeviling Centennial College and other journalism schools. FIRST WORD BY DAVID MCKIE The learning edition It's back to school with lessons in covering crime, working sources and perseverance f there is a theme for this edition of Media it is resonated world wide, as people were able to see importance of examining our coverage for one of learning. To this end, journalism how the event played out to its fatal conclusion. If it improvement; looking to citizens to help broaden Istudents have taken the lead in writing our had not been for Paul Pritchard,we would have been our coverage and the importance of determination major stories on lessons learned — or not learned, left with the word of the RCMP,who described the when pursuing high-profile people who have as it turns out — from coverage of a sexual assault event very differently from the horrifying scene that secrets that need to be exposed. on a university campus; to the latest on unfolded in real time. So who is Paul Pritchard, you In that vein, we also have other accounts of how crowdsourcing — a new trend that may force ask? Just an ordinary citizen who accomplished journalists got their stories. The Toronto Star's Rob media outlets to think outside the box as they what journalists attempt to do every day: record Cribb explains how a simple question about day struggle to remain relevant with their audiences — major events for their respective audiences. care for his daughter turned into a two-year odyssey to the startling admission of one of Quebec's most Pritchard did what comes naturally to an increasing that forced the Ontario government to react within storied athletes, who also happened to be THE number of people; he videotaped the event. The 24 hours of his series hitting the front pages. world's best female cyclist. videotaping also makes Pritchard an example of a The Ottawa Citizen's Glen McGregor takes So let's take them in order. Though sexual citizen journalist; someone who is quick-witted us behind the scenes into the little-understood, assaults have become regular staples of news enough to record an event he or she considers to be but tremendously important world of stories, this one seemed to grab the spotlight like significant. Once the video of the Dziekanski election campaign financing to show us how he no other. The assault happened late at night, in a Tasering became public, journalists took over, uncovered a scheme among Conservative Party science lab at Carleton University. The young writing stories and follow-ups; demanding answers candidates in the 2006 contest that may have woman was alone. The assailant brutally assaulted from the RCMP, the Canadian Border Services been illegal. her. She ended up in the hospital. The police Agency, the Vancouver Airport Authority and And freelance photographer Louie Palu takes us description of the event was graphic. The stories federal Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day. But behind some of the extraordinary award-winning were filled with a detailed description of the what if Pritchard and the other witnesses at the pictures he took for The Globe and Mail while in assault, along with the public safety aspect (as of airport became active participants in the coverage, Afghanistan in the spring of 2007. this writing, the perpetrator has yet to be caught, helping journalists write the stories and shaping the The other winners of the 2007 CAJ awards will and many university and college campuses across coverage? Welcome to the world of crowdsourcing. also be featured in our regular online awards the country are now looking for ways to beef up Sheila Dabu waded into the issue to explore some edition. And we will be posting other stories online their security). All this lifted this story off the of the strengths and weaknesses and ponder this as value-added editions to Media.Read about the local pages of the Ottawa Citizen and into the question: is it just a fad, or a trend that could exploits of Los Angeles Times Canadian-born national spotlight. influence the way journalists do their jobs? photojournalist Paul Watson and read Ellin And then something unexpected happened: The Bessner's primer and Powerpoint presentation on a young woman at Carleton came forward through he was the darling of the cycling world and problem that is bedevilling many schools of an intermediary to proclaim that she wasn't the province of Quebec: blonde, cute, journalism: plagiarism.
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