UBC Professor Alfred Hermida offers an insightful blog post around a presentation made by Microsoft’s principle researcher Bill Buxton at the Innovate News conference in Toronto on Jan. 30. He wrote on Reportr.net: “The CAJ Innovate News conference wrapped up with a different perspective from Bill Buxton, principal researcher for Microsoft. His prevailing philosophy is…
Kate Dubinski, columnist at the London Free Press, offers her take on the Innovate News conference on Jan. 30 in Toronto. It is a great summary and lists key points. “On the weekend, I was out-tweeted. Or maybe I was out-twittered. Whichever it was, I definitely learned a lot by sitting back, listening, absorbing and…
News organization that haven’t yet incorporated Facebook into their news distribution strategy might want to change course, and soon. According to research from Hitwise, Facebook is now the fourth-ranked source of visits to news and media sites, behind Google, Yahoo and MSN. Facebook overtook Google News as a source of news site visits last year and is miles ahead of Google Reader. Some are already…
The government of British Columbia breaks its own law on meeting freedom of information requests nearly half the time, reports a legal study on freedom of information. Or, in the words of a newspaper headline, the province is accused of “rampant censorship” ….
La Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec soutient que son rôle n’est pas de se prononcer en faveur d’une partie ou d’une autre dans le conflit de travail au Journal de Montréal, mais réclame néanmoins l’intervention du premier ministre Jean Charest. De son côté, le Secrétariat intersyndical des services publics a qualifié le 24 janvier…
A Globe and Mail columnist takes umbrage with how some foreign media portray Vancouver’s Olympics …
J-Source.ca sent Hugo Rodrigues to the Innovate News Conference in Toronto put on by the Canadian Association of Journalist asking him to come back with five things he learned from the array of speakers and panels. Here is his report
As the news gathering pack makes its way to B.C., J-Source’s Town Hall is digging into the ethics of Olympic reporting. Canadian journalists in particular have been dogged by charges of dodgy ethics, with some reporters carrying the torch, and others freelancing for official Olympic publications. If that wasn’t enough to blur the line between…
When reporters can’t see past a person’s disability, Lisa Coriale writes, they can miss the real story. There’s more than one storyline to report about people with disabilities.
A number of journalists filing requests for data to federal departments are finding the “data” has been converted to image files, quite literally pictures of data, prior to release. This has the potential to take access to electronic records back a decade if the trend spreads.