The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is the largest news organization in the country; and because it’s funded by taxpayers, it has a special responsibility to provide viewers with accurate, high-quality journalism. Its 78-page handbook for employees, Journalistic Standards and Practices, outlines its journalistic policies.

The handbook includes guidelines on ethical principles such as journalistic independence, the rights of interviewees, investigative journalism, and the appropriate depiction in news programming of sex, violence, and grief and suffering.

Viewers who wish to complain about the content of CBC’s journalistic should contact the Audience Relations Department at: 1-866-306-4636 or by e-mail (see right sidebar). If they are not satisfied with that response, complaints should be sent to the independent Ombudsman, who reports directly to the CBC president (see right sidebar).

Journalistic Standards and Practices (Full Text)