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    CBC’s Carol Off discusses the ethics of source relationships at 2018 Atkinson Lecture

    Feb. 28, 2018 By STEFANIE PHILLIPS Special to the RJRC First published on RSJ website After the cameras are turned off and the notebooks are put away, journalists often drive away from their sources without thinking about the consequences that arise in the dust of their tires. But Carol Off, host of CBC Radio’s As It Happens, says it’s time journalists started thinking about what they leave behind. In her delivery of the 2018 Atkinson Lecture on Feb. 14, Off told a room full of journalism students to acknowledge their presence has an effect on their sources and to consider how…