http://jsource.ca 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. en-us N/A nospam@mail.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:53:54 MDT 20 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5463 Saleem Khan. ]]> no@spam.com (Dana Lacey) Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:51:32 MDT http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5463 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5437 Lindsay Kines, a long-time reporter who covers social issues for the Victoria Times Colonist. ]]> no@spam.com (Robert Cribb) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:32:05 MDT http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5437 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5102 Rob Tripp, who has been writing about bad guys, courts and prisons for more than 20 years.
]]> no@spam.com (Dana Lacey) Tue, 18 May 2010 13:09:52 MDT http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5102 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5068 Fred Vallance-Jones. ]]> no@spam.com (Dana Lacey) Tue, 11 May 2010 09:57:22 MDT http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5068 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5034 Robyn Doolittle, who covered the police beat at the Toronto Star before moving to the city hall bureau. ]]> no@spam.com (Dana Lacey) Wed, 05 May 2010 07:53:26 MDT http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5034 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4995 QUESTION: I am a sports columnist and member of the CAJ, my work has been published in smaller newspapers and online for the past three years. I am quite aware that the daily newspaper business is in a state of flux but when I approach any daily newspapers with my work, hoping to reach a new level with my writing, I run into one dead end after another. I would love to get paid but being published is more important at this point in my career. Even without being paid, editors have told me if they use a freelance writer, the union gets angry. How do I overcome this hurdle and get published and, hopefully, paid one day? Answer by Chronicle Herald sports editor Andrew Waugh. ]]> no@spam.com (Dana Lacey) Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:23:11 MDT http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4995 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4531 QUESTION: What advice do you have for reporters who cover dangerous figures (bikers, organized crime members) and want to keep their kneecaps right where they are? Answer by Toronto Star reporter and author of The Bandido Massacre, Peter Edwards. ]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:52:07 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4531 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4507 QUESTION: I'm a freelance photojournalist and I take photos of people on the town. Almost all of the photos I take are posted publicly. From time to time people ask me to take photos down and I typically ignore or refuse to remove the photos. I don't believe as journalists we have the right to selectively remove content when a member of the public doesn't like what they see. What are best practices in this situation? Answer by Andy Clark, senior photographer for Reuters News Agency based in Vancouver. ]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:16:35 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4507 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4476 QUESTION: My editor removed quotation marks from a direct quote I took from an online statement from a press conference. She says journalists have free reign to use any info presented by news release, public statement or interview, without accreditation. I disagree. Please advise.  Answer by Winnipeg Sun columnist Kevin Engstrom. ]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:25:09 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4476 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4458 QUESTION: I cover a lot of court. A man pleaded guilty to contravening the National Parks Act for not having a licence for his rafting company. A quick search showed he'd been convicted of three counts of sexual exploitation and sentenced to 14 months in jail a couple of years earlier. Is this relevant to my story? Should it be in the lead, at the end or not in the story at all? Answer by Edmonton Journal reporter Karen Kleiss. ]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:15:07 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4458