Sun's Olympics Reporter Was Paid to Write for IOC's Magazine
08.12.2009
An Olympic reporter at the Vancouver Sun, Jeff Lee, were also paid to write stories for IOC's official publication ahead of the Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010. The IOC stories treated "Environmental sustainability", and told how "games include economic and cultural opportunities for indigenous people".
Critics claims that Lee should have told his readers about writing for both parties. Chris Shaw, the author of Five Ring Circus, an investigative look at the Vancouver Olympic bid, said that Lee is welcome to take the IOC's money even as he writes about the Olympics for the Vancouver Sun, but "It is a conflict and it should be disclosed the same way I would in my scientific world. Then everything's on the table and it's fair."