On the anniversary of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Reporters Without Borders staged a ceremony at the Trocadero human rights plaza in Paris. The press rights group displayed photos of Vladimir Putin and Politkovskaya alongside 18 coffins representing the 18 journalists killed in connection with their work in Russia since Putin became president…
ProjetJ | The Tyee constitue une alternative médiatique d’intérêt. Comparable à Rue89, le portail d’information français, The Tyee se distingue du journalisme citoyen en ce qu’il emploie des journalistes professionnels salariés. Sa marque de commerce : une indépendance farouchement défendue lui permettant d’investiguer librement certains sujets ignorés par les grands conglomérats médiatiques . . .…
Global television, part of the CanWest conglomerate, is laying off a total of 200 people, the company said Thursday. It’s part of the broadcaster’s plan to update the technology in four centres, in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto. A Canadian Press report said news-gathering staff is being cut in the Maritimes and in Quebec. A…
“Stop the presses!” leads a Canadian Press story, uncharacteristically. An excerpt:Stephen Harper sat down for a news conference with the national media on Wednesday. The prime minister temporarily put aside his well-documented disdain for the Ottawa press corps and fielded a variety of questions in a wide-ranging news conference on Parliament Hill. That wouldn’t normally…
François Bugingo, président de Reporters sans frontières Canada Le jeudi 27 septembre, j’étais l’invité de l’émission Christiane Charette pour commenter le film J’ai serré la main du diable, mettant en vedette Roy Dupuis dans le rôle du général Roméo Dallaire, ancien commandant des forces de l’ONU au Rwanda durant le génocide de 1994. Durant mon…
Some time soon, I think, we’re all going to have to scrap the term “online” and agree on a new way to describe news presented on the Internet instead of through what we used to call print, audio and video formats. Meanwhile, the force of the change from traditional to Internet media formats is evident…
I’ve encountered no more brutal assignments than those about suicide. Nobody seems to have found a way to entirely reconcile the gap between private grief and public information, and it’s interesting — and a little disturbing — that Britain’s Press Complaints Commission is attempting to restrict coverage of suicide. The Guardian this week has a…
This week the U.S. will preview five stamps featuring 20th Century journalists. A press notice of an Oct. 5 press conference names them: war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998); John Hersey (1914-1993), whose most famous work, was Hiroshima; CBS correspondent George Polk (1913-1948), killed while reporting on corruption involving U.S. aid in Greece after WW II;…
George Orwell’s classic 1946 essay The Politics of the English Language provides timeless advice for writing clearly and powerfully. This is a short summary of his five basic rules.
Hugo Dumas, La Presse Après seulement trois émissions en ondes, la chicane a éclaté dans la cabane d’ARTV. OK, j’exagère, car personne n’a cassé d’assiette comme dans un téléroman sud-américain, mais Lise Payette a tout de même résilié son contrat de l’émission C’est juste de la TV. L’auteure des Machos, d’Un signe de feu et…