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Microsoft researcher gives insight into future of news
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… -
LFP columnist offers worthwhile summary of Innovate News conference
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… -
Facebook sends more people to news sites than Google News
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,… -
Information not free in British Columbia: report
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… -
Un an de lock-out au Journal de Montréal
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… -
Olympic criticism by outsiders hard to bear
A Globe and Mail columnist takes umbrage with how some foreign media portray Vancouver’s Olympics …… -
Five things I learned at the Innovate News Conference in Toronto
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… -
Get your Olympics on
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… -
Don’t write about me just because I’m disabled
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.… -
Ottawa releases pictures of data to ATI requesters
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…
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