{"color":"DEFAULT","isTrashed":false,"isPinned":false,"isArchived":false,"textContent":"Hi Everyone,\n\nI'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.\n--\nCan 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?\n\nIt 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.\n\n\"Neither the title of journalist\nnor the journalistic act are reserved for a particular group of people. The journalistic world is open, and that is the\nway journalists want it to be. Since there is no disciplinary board with the necessary legal authority to sanction\nbreaches of ethics, journalists are subject to the body of laws that govern the lives of all citizens.\"\n\n---\nThis is the first professional Code of Ethics created for all Quebec journalists. Discussed at the 1994-96 annual\nmeetings of the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ), the Code was formally adopted\nat the FPJQ\u2019s general assembly on November 24, 1996.","title":"","userEditedTimestampUsec":1620132594630000,"createdTimestampUsec":1620132594630000}