Olympic cheerleading stains journalists’ credibility
The Winter Olympic Games are more about marketing and corporations than athletes — and journalists should not become part of all the hype and hoopla, argues Jim Van Horne.
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No medals for Canada
If freedom of expression were an Olympic event, Canada’s medal hopes would not be looking so good, according to this J-Source post. The post is a response to the detaining of Martin Macias Jr., a Chicago indy media reporter and activist whose journalistic status is debated in Town Hall. For the record, Macias describes himself…
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J-school faculty out of date
Are J-schools bad for the news business? A visiting professor at Ryerson University, Jeffrey Dvorkin asks the question this week on his blog. Dvorkin, a former chief journalist at CBC Radio, quotes a Facebook post which accuses j-school faculty of being out of date and guilty of teaching obsolete skills and ultimately contributing to the collapse of the…
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B.C. series probes court file access
NewsThe Victoria Times Colonist has published a four-day series exposing glaring inconsistencies in public access to court records at British Columbia courthouses. Some court officials cited a legally flawed, 16-year-old policy similar to one discredited and abandoned in Ontario last year that allows them to withhold files if there is a publication ban on a…
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Anti-Olympic activist stopped at border
If free expression were an Olympic event, Canada’s medal hopes would not be looking good. The latest in a string of disturbing incidents: Chicago activist, Olympics critic and part-time reporter Martin Macias Jr. was denied entry to Canada on Saturday, Feb. 6. Macias had planned to attend rallies and protests before the games. He is…
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Censorship of a “journalist” — or routine border patrol?
Martin Macias Jr., a 20-year old American, was recently refused entry to Canada. Where it gets interesting for journalists is that anti-Olympic activists called him an “Independent Media Reporter,” raising the specter of censorship …
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Ottawa newsroom, archives, lost in CTV fire
A fire Sunday destroyed CTV’s Ottawa newsroom, at the station CJOH, said many reports. The cause, and how local broadcasts would be affected, was uncertain Sunday. “Among the devastating property losses are the local news archives of this city’s history and the 37-year video history of anchor Max Keeping who is set to retire on…
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Talk on social media by Professor Alfred Hermida
UBC professor Alfred Hermida made a presentation at the CAJ Innovate conference in Toronto on social media principles and practice. View the slides here and check out Hermida’s blog, Reportr.net….
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Bogged down: access to information isn’t working
Canada was a leader in implementing access to information legislation in the early 1980s, writes Grant Buckler. But that was then – this is now.
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Visual Thinking and the Writing Process presentation from Ryan Coleman
Innovate News Conference speaker Rya Coleman made a version of his presentation on Jan. 30 in Toronto. Watch the presentation here and check out Coleman’s website…