Amanda Lang

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The CBC’s senior business correspondent Amanda Lang has been under fire lately for alleged conflicts of interest regarding her reporting. 

The allegations include that Lang took money for speaking engagements sponsored by companies on which she was reporting. And, more controversially, that Lang aggressively lobbied to bury a story by CBC colleague Kathy Tomlinson on the Royal Bank of Canada replacing dozens of its staff with cheaper temporary foreign workers back in 2013. Lang was at the time, and still is, in a relationship with RBC board member W. Geoffrey Beattie. 

The CBC's general manager and editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire wrote in an Editor's Blog on January 12 in response that the original story by Sean Craig of media watch website Canadalandshow.com "is misleading" and "based on several misrepresentations." McGuire says that as soon as the CBC found out about Lang's relationship with Beattie "her executive producer put in appropriate protocols." 

Tomlinson has since come forward to tell Canadalandshow.com in a January 13 interview that "This is not about Amanda Lang. It is about the long standing belief most journalists have that conflicts should be avoided at all costs or explicitly declared up front." 

But it isn't the first time that Lang has gone to bat for a corporate employer of a romantic partner.