Ideas
As journalists, we ask tough questions of our sources. But it turns out we may need to ask such questions of fellow journalists as well. Stephen Ward writes about an alarming trend he is seeing south of the border: partisan groups passing off their work as journalism. Partisan journalism simply can’t provide the value that public journalism ideally does. The U.S. cases should serve as a warning to Canadians. Foreword by J-Source Ideas editor and Media magazine editor David McKie.
Lisa Lynch chats with Participatory Journalism co-author and UBC associate professor Alfred Hermida about citizen involvement in the news, comment policies, and newsroom innovation.
In the final installment of this two-part series, Nick Fillmore argues that journalists and community groups must develop larger independent and alternative Canadian media outlets if we want to preserve freedom of expression.
In the first of a two-part series, Nick Fillmore argues that freedom of expression is threatened because of the way corporate media cater to powerful neoliberals and that small-l liberal ideas that champion the public interest are missing.
J-Source's new Ideas section editor David McKie introduces himself, plus gives you a preview of what you can expect from Media magazine's upcoming issue, a Canadian Association of Journalist's publication, and a J-Source content-sharing partner.
Two weeks after the federal election, there’s still lots to be said about how journalists covered the election. Elly Alboim offers a stinging reproach: that journalists missed crucial events and trends and didn’t connect with what voters were thinking, and ultimately, how they voted. While some of the blame lies with wildly contradictory polls, Alboim faults journalism’s imperative for dramatic narratives and the news organizations who don’t invest enough in political reporting. Alboim delivered his post-mortem at the Canadian Association of Journalists conference in Ottawa; this article has been adapted from those remarks.
Sun TV lands on the
canadian media landscape in three weeks. Dubbed "Fox News North" by observers in
anticipation of its right-wing slant, the Quebec network will rely on that reputation as well as its uncompromising stance to shake things up. Anne Caroline Desplanques, associate editor of J-Source's French sister site ProjetJ,
talked with one of its architects: Luc Lavoie, head of Sun TV and
advisor to Quebecor president, Pierre-Karl Péladeau.In the heart of the credit crisis, when it looked as though a handful of large U.S. banks were going to collapse, the government stepped in with a massive bailout and new regulations. In 2009, the Quebec government struck a task force to propose solutions to the province's "media crisis" in light of new technologies that have diluted the industry. The first report from the Working Group on Journalism and the Future of the News has just been published. Among the potential solutions: transforming journalism into a card-carrying profession.
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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