Newspapers across the continent are struggling with massive revenue losses and some question the very future of journalism. But we are constantly reminded that professional journalists do make a difference.
Even if sometimes they have to tell a lie, or mislead people, to get at the truth.
Nova Scotians now only have to get their cars safety inspected every two years, instead of every year, and newer cars are exempt. The change follows an undercover investigation by Jeffery Simpson of the Halifax Chronicle Herald. Simpson posed as an ordinary customer needing an inspection and got wildly different estimates to fix the same car.
Now the program is being fixed and many editors say it's investigative reporting like this that can distinguish professional journalists from exploding numbers of citizen journalists and bloggers, as well as provide readers with content they can't get anywhere else.
It may well be one of the keys to saving journalism as we know it. Join us Monday March 30 at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall at the University of King's College for a roundtable on the ethics and importance of undercover reporting featuring Simpson, the Toronto Star's Robert Cribb, one of Canada's top investigative reporters, and David Swick, a former Halifax Daily News editor and now instructor in journalistic ethics in the King's School of Journalism. The discussion will be moderated by Fred Vallance-Jones, assistant professor of journalism at King's and himself a longtime investigative reporter.
Dan Leger, director of news content at the Chronicle Herald will give the keynote address on the massive changes sweeping across Canadian journalism.
The event is jointly sponsored by King's and the Canadian Association of Journalists, Nova Scotia chapter.
Admission is $2.00 general and $1.00 for CAJ members and students, to help defray costs.
For further information: canadianjour@magma.ca
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