Write your headlines for an intelligent friend
A useful set of tips for writing better headlines from Sharon Burnside, the Assistant Managing Editor for the Toronto Star.
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Paul McLaughlin’s interviewing tips
A list of useful tips about preparing for and conducting effective interviews for reporters prepared by Paul McLaughlin, one of Canada’s well-known instructors and authors on interviewing for journalists.
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Another math test for journalists
A second math test for journalists by Steve Doig at Arizona State University who admits to being inspired by the test at “Math test for journalists.”
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Teaching numeracy
This site called Statistics Every Writer Should Know provides a simple guide to understanding basic statistics for journalists who might not know math. It’s put together by Robert Niles, a journalist and website editor in California. It includes clear, simple explanations, examples and quizzes to help journalists and journalism students understand such things as mean,…
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U.S. media nearing “pivot point” — PEJ report
“In the last year, the trends reshaping journalism didn’t just quicken, they seemed to be nearing a pivot point,” according to the 2007 edition of the annually anticipated report on US news media by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ).
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News is a Conversation (Concordia)
This Concordia journalism department is currently tackling the subject of climate change and have named their school’s blog “Tempest.”
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April 16, 2007: Event’s Annual Creative Non-Fiction Contest
In 2007, Event is hostingits 20th Annual Creative Non-Fiction Contest, for which three winners will each receive $500 plus payment for publication in an upcoming issue of Event Magazine. Deadline for submissions is April 16.
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Cyber libel and Canada’s courts
AnalysisRoger McConchie, a Vancouver lawyer who specializes in libel and privacy issues, has compiled detailed summaries of Canadian court rulings on Internet libel.
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Joe Howe, revisited
Book ReviewJoseph Howe, the courageous editor of the Novascotian, has long been the poster-boy for freedom of speech and freedom of the press in Canada. His exposes of government corruption in Halifax in 1835, his prosecution on a trumped-up libel charge, the eloquent six-hour speech that won his acquittal – these are the stuff of…
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Expanding the defence of qualified privilege
AnalysisAvoiding a defamation suit can be a tricky business. But a series of rulings, including an influential precedent from Britain’s House of Lords, promises to give the Canadian media more leeway to publish or broadcast serious allegations — even unproven ones — in the public interest. The best defence may be good, solid journalism. By…