Local television stations provided more hours of weekday news last year despite cutting staff and reducing salaries, according to a study released at the annual Radio-Television News Directors Association convention. Member stations reduced staff levels by about 1,200 people (4.3 per cent) while average salaries declined by 13.3 per cent for reporters, 11.5 per cent for news anchors, 9.1 per cent for…
“Why is PM Harper letting a pro-Israel think tank organize a press conference for him?” Twitters Canadianmags. The tweet links to David Akin’s blog post about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s conference call, from Jamaica, “organized by the Washington-based advocacy group The Israel Project … which decided which reporters to invite in on the call.” Most…
Slate‘s Jack Shafer thinks America’s Pulitzer Prizes — announced today — are mere “industry peacockery.” Shafer says Joseph Pulitzer was “one of the inventors of yellow journalism,” and today’s prizes are too narrow: “Even the Academy Awards are more ecumenical than the Pulitzers, honoring foreign films, short subjects, technical achievement, animated features, and even the…
A very public disagreement between two Carleton journalism professors about journalism students played itself out on the opinion pages of the Ottawa Citizen this past week. It all began with a column by Associate Professor Andrew Cohen called “Students of Mediocrity” in which he wrote about what he called “the trouble with today’s students — their…
A new Canadian organization is putting a spotlight on the physical and emotional safety of journalists. It’s aiming to change some traditional thinking in newsrooms across the country, writes Cliff Lonsdale, and to give support to the freelancers many news organizations will rely on more heavily in hard economic times.
Freelancers have won the right to be heard before the Quebec Superior Court in their ongoing battle for compensation for republishing articles online. It’s been 12 years since the Electronic Rights Defence Committee began their class action lawsuit. Tanya Gulliver’s article Rights and rates: an ongoing battle for freelancers is a good source of background…
“ The narrative in the news business in India couldn’t be more different. Only 60% of the Indian population is literate, about half of the literate population reads newspapers, and the penetration of English language newspapers is in single digits. The Indian economy has been growing at a brisk rate, and the global financial crisis…
A solid synopsis of a speech given by New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen on the future of journalism. “In his talk he focused on the “crisis of the press”. He first talked about the problems that the old press media is facing today and he summed it up very nicely in three words…
Here are a few more articles about the Journalism Online venture. Steve Brill to save journalism The UK Guardian
Great little “how-to” article on using public voting records in an effective manner.