The news business is facing life and death challenges. On Saturday, Oct. 17 at the University of King’s College, a powerhouse of journalistic thinkers will consider where it might be going next. They’ll examine the…
Get a musician friend to compose music for free for your audio slideshow or online video: that was one suggestions from multi-media trainer Robb Montgomery of Visualeditors.com at a recent Wordstock seminar. But should creators really be asking other creators to work for free? Montgomery’s sessions were full of pointers on useful tools, devices and techniques frontline reporters and freelancers…
Tommy Douglas has been the subject of numerous books, documentaries, movies and debates that finally crowned him, in a CBC competition, as the Greatest Canadian. But the federal government is still reluctant to tell Canadians everything they know about the man. Canadian Press reporter Jim Bronskill, who knows the Access to Information Act better than…
After covering the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, CBC video journalist Sasa Petricic went back with a very different mission. Laxmi Parthasarathy spoke with him in Rwanda about teaching TV journalism to working journalists in “the land of a thousand hills.”
Is the U.S. White House “attacking the messenger” — or refusing to pretend that the Fox News Channel news is performing journalism . . .
One of the most potent threats to investigative journalism comes from the legal departments of big corporations, writes Cecil Rosner. Here’s a great example and the lessons for journalists.
Canwest’s application for creditor protection ends old rumours and starts new ones. Is this the beginning of a much anticipated conglomerate break-up, or will the chain simply change hands? In a Globe and Mail online Q and A, Carleton University’s Chris Waddell talks about what the restructuring might look like. ‘Canwest did not intend to…
A Czech entrepreneur is developing a chain of Starbuck-like news cafes where news is being distributed and journalists are interacting with readers. The storefronts are quickly becoming a centre of community life, with meetings, concerts, dance lessons and other events organized for local residents. “PPF Media has been getting a lot of international attention lately…
Great column on the loss of local newspapers and the ways in which this damages communities and society. “If you think your local newspaper is bad, I’m here to tell you that life without one is worse. “
The Toronto Star and CBC radio 3 recently launched new websites heavily influenced by social media and customized interactivity. The new Toronto Star site provides four different views of the news: standard, visual, timeline and grid. While not a completely customizable interface, it offers more than others. But it fails to recognize new forms of…