Vanity Fair’s website has a story about the story — of the celebrity magazine’s quest to find out if a Victoria, B.C. resident was the son of J.F. Kennedy.It’s a fishy tale to be sure (one that I was surprised to see pop up repeatedly in the Globe and Mail), but nowhere does Vanity Fair…
Sun Microsystems has announced the completion of its $1 billion takeover of MySQL.
Ontario’s highest court has set the interest of police criminal investigations above the need of journalists to protect confidential sources, in a ruling against the National Post (and the Globe and Mail and CBC as intervenors). In a case involving former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien, and Andrew McIntosh’s reports of business dealings connected to…
The House of Commons heritage committee recommended that the federal government commit “stable, multi-year funding” to the CBC, though the committee split along party lines over the future of the public broadcaster, said a Canadian Press report. Members of the minority Conservative government wrote their own, dissenting report, but all all agreed that the CBC…
When Columbia Graduate School of Journalism dean Nicholas Lemann accidentally emailed out his own self-evaluation last week, students got a glimpse into how schools are responding to critique of journalism education. The debate about whether to approach journalism as an intellectual pursuit or as a craft has been with us a long time, as evidenced…
This week’s Big Issue continues the conversation about what Columbia University professor Ari Goldman calls “the best beat in journalism” — religion. Our contributors offer updates and opinions in Town Hall and new perspectives in Ideas. This ethics of neutrality and faith are discussed in this Ethics feature. For related issues and ideas, check out…
Adbusters, a guerilla-media, anti-consumerist, magazine-publishing alternate media entity, lost its bid to force Global and CBC television to air Adbuster commercials spoofing multinational corporations and the media, reported the Canadian Press. Adbusters tried to buy air time in 2003 for 10 ads critical of media, and when the ads were turned down it filed suit,…
It’s American, but Canadians might be interested in the new guide for bloggers and others, developed by the Citizen Media Law Project. It bills itself as “intended for use by citizen media creators with or without formal legal training, as well as others with an interest in these issues, and focuses on the wide range…
Nathalie Petrowski, Cyberpresse.ca | Que l’on soit scénariste ou non, la leçon de scénarisation de Denys Arcand promettait d’être l’événement de la journée, lundi, aux Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.Une heure avant le début de la leçon, plus des 200 fidèles faisaient la queue au milieu du hall de la Cinémathèque, dans la bonne humeur et…
Critics are calling the appointment of a one-time Conservative candidate to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission a case of patronage by the governing Conservatives. Federal Heritage Minister Josee Verner appointed Marc Patrone to the country’s broadcast regulator on Feb. 19. Patrone, a former legislative journalist and a country singer, was for a brief time…