I had no idea. It was only when a copy of Ethical Space, an academic journal I write for, arrived in my mailbox this week, I learned that Claude-Jean Bertrand, whom I had the pleasure of meeting through Institute for Communication Ethics (ICE), had passed away late September. Obviously, I have not been keeping up with the blogs I should have.

Bertrand was a life-long advocate of ethical journalism, and spoke passionately about voluntary media accountability systems (M.A.S) on the occasions I met him (which must have been around 2003).