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Is Protection of Individual Privacy Still Important?

What is more important: our right to know? or individual privacy? Can varying degrees of importance really be given to these concepts? It’s really more of a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants situation. Often an individual’s right to privacy is outweighed by the publics right to know. But how the importance is weighed differs from news outlet to news outlet; and from journalist to journalist. These are the types of things any reporter and editor must consider before running a story—a conflict between duty and humanity. As stated in Doing Ethics in Journalism "journalists… are human beings… more than electronic button pushers."

Canada's Best and Worst Newspaper Websites

While old media is still the leading source of information for most people in the world. While a lot can be said for blogging (citizen journalism), photo-sharing (citizen photo-journalism), video-sharing (citizen broadcasting) and the lot, newspapers, radio and television news are still dominant. How are Canada's newspapers taking to the internet? Some better than others.