May 4, 2021, 8:49:54 AM
Hi Everyone,
I'm looking to obtain feedback from any journalists in Ontario or in Canada generally. Please forward my request to your fellow colleagues or friends and family members.
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Can someone tell me if the title of journalist in Ontario and other Canadian provinces is open to anyone in the same way as it is described in the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) code of ethics linked below?
It appears to me to be a very unique situation in québec, (perhaps it is not, but if so please let me know...) whereby the field of journalism does not require a specific title or diploma to practice the profession.
"Neither the title of journalist
nor the journalistic act are reserved for a particular group of people. The journalistic world is open, and that is the
way journalists want it to be. Since there is no disciplinary board with the necessary legal authority to sanction
breaches of ethics, journalists are subject to the body of laws that govern the lives of all citizens."
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This is the first professional Code of Ethics created for all Quebec journalists. Discussed at the 1994-96 annual
meetings of the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ), the Code was formally adopted
at the FPJQ’s general assembly on November 24, 1996.