Controversy
On September 25, 2012 The Globe and Mail announced they had disciplined high-profile staff columnist Margaret Wente after she admitted to plagiarism. The scandal emerged after University of Ottawa professor and blogger, Carol Wainio, repeatedly raised plagiarism accusations against Wente on her blog Media Culpa.
On October 22, 2012 online Canadian magazine The Tyee published an article criticizing the Globe's "Advertorial" policies and design. The Tyee alleged that the Globe intentionally blurred the lines between advertising and editorial content in order to offer premium and effective ad space to high-paying advertisers. Tyee reporter Jonathan Sas cited an 8-page spread in the October 2, 2012 print edition called "The Future of the Oil Sands," to illustrate the difficulty in distinguishing the spread from regular Globe content.
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