EDMONTON — Staff in the Alberta government’s so-called war room should stop calling themselves reporters, says the president of the Canadian Association of Journalists. “Don’t pretend that you’re doing journalism — because you’re not,” Karyn Pugliese said Tuesday from Winnipeg. Sources contacted for those stories have told media organizations, including The Canadian Press, that staff identified themselves on the phone as reporters. It's trying to winThe energy centre did not reply to a request for comment Tuesday, but spokesman Grady Semmens has said that staff are “not advised” to use that term. “When they’re approaching people and they’re saying, ‘We’re journalists,’ people are expecting them to behave the way journalists behave.

Source: National Post December 24, 2019 19:18 UTC