Globe ‘opened up’ its ‘process of reporting’ on China’s attempted election meddling when it published anonymous source’s op-ed, says Boswell

The Globe and Mail's recent decision to publish one of its anonymous sources as an op-ed added transparency to its investigative reporting, says Randy Boswell. But Wesley Wark says 'there are many remaining questions about how The Globe has handled the leaks.'

The Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau chief Bob Fife, left, and Globe reporter Steve Chase, right, have been breaking the stories on the China-election-interference issue, along with Global News' Sam Cooper, not pictured. Photographs courtesy of LinkedIn and Twitter

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

April 3, 2023

The Globe and Mail’s decision to publish a March 17 opinion piece from an anonymous national security official central to the national daily newspaper’s coverage of attempted foreign interference in Canada's elections “bolstered confidence” in its coverage o...

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