Ideas
Follow along the sessions on the last day of the CAJ conference.
Kelly Toughill, J-Source business of journalism editor and director of the University King’s College’s School of Journalism, has been thinking a lot about the future of journalism in an increasingly digital universe. She takes a look at some of the excellent studies that have raised interesting questions about what works and what doesn’t.
No journalist would ever suggest that commercial interests should override editorial independence. But as The Canadian Press editor-in-chief Scott White explains, some editorial managers are saying the time has come to reinvent and re-examine everything – including knocking some holes in the metaphorical wall between those who produce content and those who sell it.
Impartiality and objectivity as bloodless norms is an absurd caricature, argues Stephen J.A. Ward in the latest issue of Media magazine, with an intro from editor David McKie
‘Escort, pimp, senior policy advisor to Harper, native affairs and government contracts.’ Those were the words of a source that piqued Kenneth Jackson’s interest and began an investigation that would lead Jackson and APTN's Jorge Barrera to uncover the Bruce Carson affair. Jackson explains how they got the story.
Once Rich Lam's photo of a couple during the Stanley Cup riots in Vancouver in 2011 went viral, its authenticity was questioned. Lam discusses the impact unethical photographers and editors can have on photojournalism as a whole.
Andrew Stobo Sniderman explains how, on a whim, he ended up bearing witness to stories of pain and suffering of First Nations peoples who survived Canada’s residential schools.
Ideas
edited by DAVID McKIE
In this section we explore issues in Canadian journalism in collaboration with Media magazine. David McKie is an investigative reporter with CBC and editor of Media magazine. He also teaches a course on computer-assisted journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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