Openfile.ca to launch Monday
Toronto-based hyperlocal news site OpenFile.ca is featured in the Saturday Globe and Mail detailing the revolutionary journalism project.
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Study explores Twitter as social media or new media
Four Korean scholars completed the first exhaustive quantitative study of the Twittersphere and the results are interesting for social science and journalism.
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Court delivers ‘mixed result’ on protection of sources
An effort to establish blanket protection for Canadian journalists’ right to protect the identity of their sources has failed, but the news is not all bad. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in an 8-1 decision that there is no blanket right to protect sources in Canada. But Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) described…
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Media opposes publication ban, Ontario stays firm
The news media are challenging the wide-reaching publication ban on the murder of 8-year-old Tori Stafford, but the province of Ontario says it won’t oppose the ban.
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Kevin Newman says it’s time for a change, so he’s leaving Global TV in August
After reporting stints with CBC and CTV, and seven years in the U.S., including co-hosting a network morning show, Kevin Newman returned to Canada 10 years ago to take a seat in the anchor chair and serve as executive editor. He’s announced he’s leaving, now, insisting he wants to relax and travel, not jump into…
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CJFE to Publish First Annual Freedom of Expression Report
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) will publish its first annual report on the state of free expression in Canada on May 3, World Press Freedom Day. This has been a noteworthy year for free expression issues in Canada, for better or worse. CJFE’s annual Free Expression Report will provide Canadians with a frank assessment…
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Abuse scandals – reviewing the coverage
In light of abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, how well is the media covering this issue? This was one of the questions behind a Sunday Edition panel discussion, MediaPhiles: God and the Media. In J-Source’s Ideas Section we learn there’s more to the story than clerics and victims. Over in the Town Hall,…
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Alternative journalism: from slur to Pulitzer
A week after ProPublica accepts one of journalism’s top prizes for a story funded by foundations and universities, Cecil Rosner examines the growing trend of non-profit, non-partisan investigative journalism. Will it be the saviour the industry needs?
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Breakthrough for community radio in Bangladesh
Bazlur Rahman, the Chief Executive Officer of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC) reports that the Ministry of Information, Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh has approved 12 Community Radio Initiators for the installation and operation of community radio in Bangladesh for the first time. The measure is meant to ensure free flow of…
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Is Torstar bid favored to buy Canwest newspapers?
A quickening is apparent within Canada’s biggest newspaper conglomerate, long mired in the slough of despond. Beleagued Canwest LP is comprised of the remnants of some once-venerable FP publications, some once-venerable Southam publications and a whole bunch of small newspapers that once served their communities. Other than the relatively new National Post company flagship, mostly…