For many in the traditional media business, attracting young readers and viewers is like searching for the Holy Grail, a quest that never quite succeeds as hoped. However, according to How Teens Use Media, a new “myth-debunking” study by the Nielsen company, teens really aren’t that different from other people in how they interact with mass media. “The fact is, teens are unique, but they are not…
“Sun Media’s Alberta weeklies continue to experience the wrath of Quebecor cutbacks, the latest being the Pincher Creek Echo and the Crowsnest Pass Promoter.”
With all the hardship facing newspapers, some good news comes from the Center for the Digital Future. It found more people are reading news online and spending more time doing it. Online users are spending 53 minutes per week reading online newspapers, as compared to last year when the study found people were doing this…
The CBC’s John Bowman has created an interactive, visual representation of media ownership across the country. The result is an example of new digital storytelling techniques where there is less of a reliance on old forms like text, images, audio or video. The audience explores the story through interaction, creating their own narrative. It is…
“Vancouver’s two daily metropolitan newspapers have embraced BubbleTweet. The Vancouver Sun and The Province, both owned by Canwest, are embedding the bubble-shaped pop-ups on their Twitter pages to tell readers about the stories they’re chasing for web publication and the next day’s edition.”
La ministre Christine St-Pierre est inquiète de la décision de La Presse qui consiste à cesser de publier son journal les dimanches à compter du 28 juin. La ministre de la Culture et des Communications du Québec a utilisé l’image voulant qu’un tsunami frappe en ce moment la profession de journaliste. Le quotidien Le Devoir…
Selected stories from the most recent issue of the Newspaper Research Journal that may be of interest to the journalism community: Copy Editing Not Great Priority for Online Stories, by John Russial An Analysis of Slogans Used to ‘Sell the News’, by Salma Ghanem and Kimberly Selber Newspaper Managers Report Positive Attitudes about Blogs, by…
Documentary producer Ira Basen created a two-part series called News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media on “where the news business is going, now that it’s everybody’s business.” Part one aired on the Sunday Edition, CBC Radio 1 on June 21 and the second part will air June 28 at…
Vancouver-based investigative reporter Terry Gould spent four years researching the lives of local journalists killed in Iraq, the Philippines, Russia, Colombia and Bangladesh for his new book. J-Source contributor Jeffrey Dvorkin spoke with Gould about the dangers facing local and foreign journalists overseas and the importance of pursuing the “why” of the story.
La disparition éventuelle du Boston Globe concerne le Québec plus directement qu’on pourrait le croire. C’est ce qu’avance Marc-Olivier Bherer, journaliste et blogueur à Courrier international. En effet, la Nouvelle-Angleterre, c’est en quelque sorte la porte d’à côté. Ce quotidien offre une couverture du Québec d’une part avantageuse sur le plan touristique, mais aussi intéressante…