Colette Brin, ProjetJ Le licenciement de quatre journalistes au magazine belge Le Vif soulève l’indignation du milieu journalistique dans ce pays. Le dernier numéro a d’ailleurs été produit sans la participation de la rédaction. Une lettre ouverte signée par un groupe de professeurs d’université, publiée par les quotidiens Le Soir et Libre Belgique, dénonce ce…
Budget cutbacks and travel restrictions have led to the cancellation of Magazines Canada’s highly regarded annual School for Professional Publishing, reports D.B. Scott on his blog, Canadian Magazines.
That’s what it would take to save every American newspaper in perpetuity as non-profit organizations, says Zachary M Seward at Nieman Journalism Lab. But he argues the important question isn’t “How much?” It’s “Should we?”
The February 2009 issue of Journalism focuses exclusively on journalism in Brazil. Articles include: Journalistic thinking: Brazil’s modern tradition, by José Marques de Melo Journalists and intellectuals in the origins of the Brazilian press (1808-22), by Heci Regina Candiani The past and the future of Brazilian television news, by Beatriz Becker and Celeste González de…
The number of unique monthly visitors to the top 10 U.S. newspaper websites has increased an average of 16 per cent since 2007, Nielsen Online reports, while total visits are up by 27 per cent, suggesting readers are also visiting more often. It’s more evidence that news consumption is shifting online and the challenge facing newspapers is how to shift more…
The gay advocacy organization Egale has formally protested the use by CBC sports broadcasters of the word “pansification,” in stories about whether fighting should be banned in hockey.
What would it take to endow a “very healthy newsroom”? Steve Coll, writing in the online edition of The New Yorker, calculates that The Washington Post could run on the proceeds of a $2 billion fund.
Officials with a Manitoba government agency asked a provincial court to ban media from attending any part of the custody case involving a seven-year-old Winnipeg girl sent to school bearing a swastika, reported The Canadian Press. CP noted that child welfare workers removed the girl and her brother, age two, from their home and are…
Roger Bertrand et Michèle Leduc | La couverture médiatique intensive et manifestement sympathique, voire complaisante sur le Red Bull Crashed Ice, poserait-elle un problème d’éthique sur le plan journalistique ?
FeatureThe age of Internet access to court records has dawned in Canada. British Columbia is leading the way with online access to some 200,000 court documents and more to come, and the Supreme Court of Canada wants to post written arguments filed in advance of its hearings. But some fear easy access to registry files…