Le Département d’information et de communication à l’Université Laval demande à ses étudiants au premier cycle, y compris ceux qui s’inscrivent en journalisme, d’acheter un ordinateur portable Mac. Les étudiants auront droit à une réduction de prix appréciable mais il n’est pas question d’une commandite ou autre forme de partenariat avec la compagnie Apple. Plusieurs…
Canadian journalists covering NATO activities in Afghanistan are being subjected to increased surveillance, including biometric scans and restrictions on independent travel to and from Kandahar airport. None of this helps the already difficult task of reporting on Afghanistan, as described by Melissa Fung and Graeme Smith in this post. But still people do everything they…
The ceaselessly clever innovators at Google Labs have launched a new application that could prove useful to anyone using current or recent news reports in their research. News Timeline marries the topic/phrase searchability of Google News with a graphical timeline presentation of search results. It’s worth checking out. (Try “swine flu” or “pandemic” as search terms for starters.)
Whenever I conduct seminars in enterprise reporting, I provide examples of what I call the “journalism of reminder.” It’s a simple but often ignored aspect of journalism. It reminds the reader or viewer or listener of key historical facts about a story, but it does so at a time when that context is crucial. For…
“Like any good journalist, I won’t bury the news – this is the last edition of the Stillwater Courier or Lake Elmo Leader that you will receive.” Two more communities no longer served.
This recently launched site is dedicated to looking at the future of newspapers, but there is a notable twist. It is being led by a group of newspaper executives. “The Newspaper Project was launched in 2009 by a small group of newspaper executives who wanted to support a productive exchange of information and ideas about…
“That, improbably, was the title of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, chaired by John Kerry , at which I testified yesterday alongside David Simon , the former Baltimore Sun reporter who went on to create “The Wire”; Ariana Huffington, who presumably needs no introduction; Alberto Ibarguen, who runs the Knight Foundation, which has been making…
For the first time ever, the number of online journalists jailed last year exceeded than those working in print, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports. Of 125 journalists in jail worldwide as of Dec. 1, 2008, 55 worked online, 53 worked in print and 17 worked in broadcast media or film. China continues to be the world leader in…
People followed the swine flu story closely last week. Although most “learned something” about the flu from local TV news and, to a lesser extent, cable news, the Internet came out on top when people were asked which medium was “most useful,” according to a Pew research survey.
A prank played by an Irish student who laid a trap for lazy journalists on Wikipedia — and caught some big prey around the world — proves again that journalists should check, double-check and check again all sources — especially sources on …