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Redaction redux
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October 15, 2007 - Posted by Robert Cribb
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 QUESTION: What you can do when long-awaited government documents land with more blacked out parts than real content? Andrew McIntosh, a veteran journalist who has written for The National Post, The Globe and Mail and The Ottawa Citizen, offers ten tips in response.
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Covering courts without pictures
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September 14, 2007 - Posted by Robert Cribb
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QUESTION: What's the best way for a television news reporter to cover a court case, since cameras aren't normally allowed in courtrooms and we need pictures to tell stories? Answer by Kelly Dehn, crime and courts reporter for CTV News in Winnipeg.
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BTW, can I quote you on that?
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August 16, 2007 - Posted by Robert Cribb
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QUESTION: Can I use quotes from e-mail listservs and online newsgroups in my articles? Alan Bass, chair of the journalism school at Thompson Rivers University and moderator of the Canadian Association of Journalists listserv, responds.
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Getting started in researching a business
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July 5, 2007 - Posted by Robert Cribb
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QUESTION: What are some of the basic steps I have to take in order to begin researching a business? Answer by David McKie, an award-winning journalist with the CBC’s Investigative Unit and one of the four journalists who wrote the Canadian textbook, Digging Deeper.
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Access-to-information strategies
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June 18, 2007 - Posted by Robert Cribb
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QUESTION: What if my access to information request got me nothing? What now? Jim Bronskill, a reporter with the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press, responds.
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Dealing with evasive politicians
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May 23, 2007 - Posted by Heather McCall
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QUESTION: How do you get politicians to answer tough questions? Jean Laroche, CBC Radio's Legislature reporter in Nova Scotia, responds.
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Greasing the wheels
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April 12, 2007 - Posted by Robert Cribb
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QUESTION: What interview techniques are best for getting sources to open up? Bill Taylor, a veteran feature writer at The Toronto Star, offers his advice.
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Off the record -- or is it?
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November 14, 2006 - Posted by Heather McCall
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QUESTION: You conduct a lengthy interview with a critical source. He tells you many things very useful to a big story you’re working on. At the end of the interview, the source says, “This is all off the record, right? You can’t print any of this.” What do you do? How do you convince the person to go on the record? Dan Lett, an investigative reporter with the Winnipeg Free Press, responds.
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Libel chill
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November 14, 2006 - Posted by Heather McCall
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QUESTION: A hostile interviewee lays down the gauntlet: "Publish that and I'll sue you." What's the professional response? Alison Crawford, an award-winning reporter with the CBC, responds.
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Getting answers in a small town
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October 20, 2006 - Posted by Robert Cribb
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QUESTION: When officials in a small town stop talking, how do you do your job? James Risdon, who has edited and reported for newspapers, magazines and web sites across Canada, offers his advice.
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edited by Robert Cribb
 Ask a Mentor provides answers to practical questions about the craft. Our mentors will steadily expand this fount of tips, traps and shortcuts on the trail to truth. Submit your question and we'll pass it on to a mentor for answering. Robert Cribb is an investigative reporter and deputy investigations editor at the Toronto Star, past president of the Canadian Association of Journalists and current president of the CAJ Educational Foundation. He is also a lecturer at Ryerson University and co-author of Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter's Research Guide.
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