«Nous autres à V, les nouvelles on trouve ça plate», a lancé hier Jean-François Mercier au lancement de la programmation automnale de V Télé. L’humoriste animera cet automne une émission quotidienne de variétés à 22h, tandis que le bulletin de nouvelles sera relégué à 6 heures… du matin. Loin de contredire son nouvel animateur vedette,…
The Iranian judiciary has sentenced Badrolsadat Mofidi, head of the Iranian Journalists Association, to six years in prison and banned her from working as a journalist for five years, reports Payvand Iran News.
The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkley is considering a new, professional fee for its program. The School is considering charging its new students an additional $5,000 over and above their tuition, similar to those charged by other professional programs in law, business and medicine. In a letter to incoming students, the dean,…
by Peter Johansen and Mary McGuire Applications to Ontario's degree programs in Journalism are down compared to this time last year, according to data released last month by the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre in Guelph. The number of confirmed admissions is also slightly down across the four schools that are part of the OUAC program grouping…
When preparing to teach a journalism course, especially for the first time, it’s always helpful to find out what other j-educators do who teach the same kind of course. Now Poynter’s News University has established a Syllabus Exchange, a database of course syllabi, assignments, exercises and other teaching materials that can be shared. You earn points for…
Just about everyone in Canada is aware of the health dangers posed by asbestos. So why are we still producing the stuff and exporting it around the world?
While the leaking of Afghan war documents has been criticized in some Canadian columns, on the pages of J-Source WikiLeaks is described as citizen journalism we need and a new form of asymmetrical journalism. Founder Julian Assange, a self-described ‘person of interest’ to U.S. authorities, explains his decision to provide advance viewings to select outlets.…
The credibility of what is called “citizen journalism” took a big hit this week, according to Eric Morse, a former Canadian diplomat who is now vice-chair of the Security Studies Committee at the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto. In a column in the Ottawa Citizen Morse criticized those who reported as fact information contained in…
On Sunday three prominent publications published stories based on thousands of pages of classified U.S. military documents on the war in Afghanistan. The material came from WikiLeaks, a three-year-old, volunteer-run website whose mission is to provide a safe way for whistleblowers to make information public that someone in power didn’t want us to see. This…
The release of classified information about the Afghan War by WikiLeaks and three news organizations is being described by some as a new form of “assymetrical” journalism. In a column in The New York Times, David Carr says the collaboration between WikiLeaks, a whistle-blower Web site that specializes in publishing classified or secret documents, and three traditional…