A ruling by the Manitoba Court of Appeal this week has some important lessons for police and the media, and the troubling tendency on the part of police agencies to use media to further their investigations. Five years ago, police forces were given a new tool called the production order. Though it bears some similarities…
If you are looking for some outstanding, award-winning radio documentaries, you might find them at this online archive from Sound Portraits.
This is a step by step guide from the BBC about how to produce digitial stories, which it defines as “mini-movies” or “short, personal, multimedia scraps of TV that people can make for themselves.” But even if that’s not your goal, there are good sections here on how to develop story ideas and how to gather…
Looking for ideas about how to teach j-students to use social media in their reporting? Here’s a list of ten ways some j-schools are doing it from Mashable.com.
Overturning a ruling by the Alberta Human Rights Commission, a Court of Queen’s Bench judge ruled last week that an anti-gay letter published in the Red Deer Advocate in 2002 was not hate speech.
Most journalists strive never to become part of the story — except in life-or-death cases when our humanity demands action. The Toronto Star has decided that climate change is such a case — it joined 55 other newspapers around the world to demand action, not in an editorial, but in a front-page story. Excerpt: “Today…
Climate-Gate has fuelled extra interest in the UN Climate Change Conference. Ethical journalists may hold themselves above opening private mail, but there’s been no shortage of coverage since someone else did the dirty work. “Does the pendulum in the quest for ‘balance’ in covering global warming now shift back?” is one question posed in Town…
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma has announced a January 29th deadline for the 2010 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. The awards “recognize newspaper, magazine, online, radio, television, video and multimedia journalism that goes beyond the ordinary in reporting on trauma.” For full information, including guidelines, application forms and a listing…
Recent articles of interest published in scholarly journals: “Evaluating Journalism: Towards an assessment framework for the practice of journalism,” by Ivor Shapiro, Journalism Practice 4 (2), April 2010 “The Globe on Saturday, The World on Sunday: Toronto weekend editions and the influence of the American Sunday paper, 1886-1895“, by Sandra Gabriele and Paul Moore, Canadian…
Paul Cauchon nous signale la parution d’Histoire de la caricature au Québec, un ouvrage signé Robert Aird et Mira Falardeau, qui retrace à coups de crayon inspirés l’évolution du Québec par ses personnalités marquantes. Outre les transformations de la société, on y découvre aussi ceux du métier qui se décline lui aussi, en 2009, sur…