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    Early reporting on AIDS offers lessons for covering future health crises, new study suggests

    By AMANDA POPE Staff reporter April 13, 2018 Gay men living with HIV/AIDS were underrepresented and often portrayed in a negative light by Toronto mainstream newspapers covering the early years of the health crisis, according to a new study. The research paper by Ryerson University master of journalism student Michael D’Alimonte also suggests that the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail were too eager to publish scientifically dubious findings during the early years of the crisis in the 1980s. “The (research) paper is a lesson on reporting on an emerging health crisis,” said D’Alimonte, whose paper has been accepted…

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    Journalists grapple with online unpublishing and the “right to be forgotten”

    By JASMINE BALA Staff Reporter The European Court of Justice’s 2014 ruling on the “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) doesn’t just affect search engines, it also has implications for journalists, said Ryerson University School of Journalism adjunct professor and media lawyer Brian MacLeod Rogers. In 2014, the court ruled that individuals have the right to ask search engines, such as Google, to remove links with personal information if the details are inaccurate or no longer relevant. Search engines have to make case-by-case assessments of requests under EU law. The decision, Rogers said in an interview, also had implications for reporters…