Damien Rousseau, Quebechebdo.com Le 19 septembre dernier, le Conseil d’administration de l’auguste Société Radio-Canada annonçait qu’elle mettait un terme à son affiliation avec les stations régionales de TQS à Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières et Saguenay. Elle entend dorénavant desservir directement ces régions avec l’ensemble des plateformes de diffusion qu’elle opère dans le cadre de son mandat à…
Le Trente « Nos » soldats sont en guerre. « Nos » journalistes aussi. Mais la guerre a bien changé depuis l’engagement militaire du Canada en Corée. Le journalisme aussi. Comment les journalistes d’aujourd’hui voient-ils la couverture d’un conflit – ou de l’armée ? Michèle Ouimet, Michel Jean, François Bugingo et Alain Gravel ont tous…
Media in the Arab world are “suffering from four major defects”, the director-general of Al Jazeera warned at a Media & Marketing conference in Dubai, reported Arabian Business. Wadah Khanfar said that 24-hour news was “obsessed by breaking news”, suffering from a “severe lack of historical context”, was “betraying” the masses, and should focus on…
Unions are starting to speak up against the latest CanWest newsroom cutbacks, which they argue will erode local news coverage. But where are the people who read/watch the news, and use it to help make decisions? When threats were perceived to California newspapers in recent years, in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, politicians, businesspeople and…
Jean-Claude Leclerc, Le Devoir | À peine Stephen Harper se targuait-il d’avoir nettoyé les écuries fédérales qu’une ancienne affaire secoue les conservateurs. L’enquête Airbus, que l’on croyait définitivement classée, a refait surface. On parle maintenant d’une «affaire Mulroney». Le chef du gouvernement a choisi, avec raison, de solliciter l’avis d’un tiers indépendant. Déjà l’ex-premier ministre,…
“As many of the ’embedded’ media enthuse over the ‘courage and professionalism’ of their new pals, or marvel shamelessly at the wondrous toys they now get to play with, the rest of us, along with increasingly many Iraqis, wonder if we will sleep in a bed at all tonight or else bide the pelting of…
“Get that broad the hell out of here!” That comment was leveled by a United States Marine Corps general at Dickey Chapelle, a woman photographer who had made her way to his front during the bloody battle of Okinawa, toward the end of World War II. This report by Mark Jenkins for National Geographic News…
“War Reporting – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” is a project that was completed during the spring of 2005 by three students enrolled in a Global Electronic Journalism course, a 20-credit course held…
Hello? Hello! Is anybody reading this stuff? Does anybody care? Or are Canadians — and the Canadian journalists who ought to be especially concerned here — really a bunch of sheep? Comment, already. If you won’t/can’t scream, picket or write to your MPs, for Pete’s sake at least comment — just click the mouse and…
NewsAn Alberta man who had an affair with a teacher 10 years ago, when he was a teenager, cannot have his identity published despite his desire to go public, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Nov. 1. The Fifth Estate will air a documentary on the case the month, but the man’s face and identity…