The death of Canada’s election results ban was fittingly announced on Twitter on Jan. 13. The law - which prohibited the reporting of results across time zones - survived a mass tweet last election, but just barely. While media organizations have long criticized the ban, it took a lone citizen to lay down the legal gauntlet. In the end, though, it wasn’t the Charter that made the ban untenable – it was changing technology. The ban’s lifting is a welcome development for journalists. And if information is power, western Canadian voters will have gained a little more. On the downside, this may put some added ‘real-time’ pressure on J-Source’s hardworking corps of political contributors.
2012-01-25 10:00
J-Source is recognizing Wilf Dinnick and OpenFile as the Canadian Newsperson of the Year for his courage to put his own reputation on the line to create new and innovative approaches to engaging citizens with local, public service journalism. Dinnick, a former CBC, CTV and CNN journalist, launched the site a year-and-a-half ago to become an example of what the jury sees as a new way to think about news and represents the heart and soul of journalism's future.
2012-01-23 15:36
The launch of the new Apple iBooks Author tool is aimed at challenging the textbook publishing market. Wayne MacPhail argues the new platform also gives journalists a new opportunity to create innovative, media-rich and longform stories for the audience.
2012-01-24 14:22
You might think content is the most important factor when you're trying to sell a story, but it's the pitch that closes the deal. Freelance journalist Katie Ingram gets advice from three seasoned professionals on pitching for publication.
2012-01-24 11:44
How does a student journalism conference handle a norovirus outbreak? In the way they know best: through social media. Emma Godmere, Canadian University Press national bureau chief, gives a first-person account of how she and her team used a myriad of digital tools to handle a situation that was unprecedented for them and what it was like as a journalist to become the subject of a national media story.
2012-01-23 10:26
For many people, Toronto’s civic politics are more intriguing than they’ve been in over 30 years. Rhiannon Russell reports from the CJF-hosted “Fear and Loathing at City Hall” panel discussion where reporters opened up and debated Ford’s boycott of the Toronto Star, the mayor’s now-infamous 911 calls and the daily challenges of working the City Hall beat.
2012-01-06 23:41
An Israeli daily newspaper tried a radical experiment - it replaced journalists with literary writers for some editions of its paper. David Secko and Elyse Amend write about the study that followed this experiment to see if other types of writers could handle daily deadlines, chasing truth, and working sources for information the way that journalists do.
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