Radio-Canada/RSF Reporters sans frontières a demandé à la Chine de libérer la centaine de journalistes, internautes et militants de la liberté d’expression actuellement emprisonnés dans le pays. C’est au cours d’un point de presse tenu sans autorisation devant le bâtiment du Comité d’organisation des Jeux olympiques de Pékin que quatre représentants de l’organisation ont lancé…
The NDP is charging political interference by the federal government, in the search for a president and a news chief for the CBC. Tom Long, the man apparently in charge of the CBC head-hunting task for the firm Egon Zehnder International, is a former Canadian Alliance leadership candidate and is well-connected to the top tiers…
The editor of the Oakland Post in California was gunned down on Aug. 2. Was his murder linked to his work?
A cover story in Maclean’s entitled, “Lawyers are Rats,” is generating much controversy and attention from Canadian lawyers — which of course is the point of the provocative heading. The story is a full-on attack on the sleazy aspects of the legal profession. The Canadian Bar Association instantly demanded an apology then called the story…
Reporters Without Borders is stepping up its campaign to use China’s 2008 Olympics to draw attention to China’s repression of press rights, with a press conference in Montreal on Monday.
Canadian Press reports that the RCMP is evicting journalists from a Charlottetown hotel lobby at the request of the Prime Minister’s Office. The federal Conservative party is holding its annual summer caucus at the hotel. Police in plainclothes and the hotel manager “told reporters that the Prime Minister’s Office had requested all media be barred…
ECCE HOMO – Chroniques intempestives, Grégory J’aimais bien Paul MOREIRA lorsqu’il présentait son émission de reportages sur CANAL +, journaliste pointilleux mais sachant rester humble, il avait le mérite de nous proposer des sujets de qualité. Mais depuis qu’il a perdu son émission, je ne le reconnai plus… Avec barbiche guevaresque et lunettes d’intello, notre…
Tuner.be L’essor d’Internet et du multimédia a considérablement modifié la façon de «faire du journalisme». Celle-ci doit maintenant se conjuguer en termes de convergence. L’AJP mène l’enquête, et propose, dans son mensuel «Journalistes», le premier volet de son dossier«Nouveau journalisme et nouveaux journalistes». «L’avènement d’Internet comme moyen de communication de masse et les (r)évolutions technologiques…
The broadcasting industry is continuing to expand and new media are increasingly important to Canadians’ lives, said the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in its annual broadcasting report. Here are the report’s findings:
In an essay in the Toronto Star, David Eaves and Taylor Owen explore the impact of blogging, which they contend reaches its 10th anniversary this month. “Blogging continues to be misunderstood by both technophiles and technophobes,” they argue, and say blogs will neither replace traditional journalism nor threaten the quality and integrity of journalism –…