Les Jeux Olympiques de Vancouver 2010 seront les sixièmes de Robert Laflamme, journaliste à La Presse Canadienne. Il nous livre les secrets de la préparation en vue de cette couverture d’endurance. Robert Laflamme
With the Canadian Association of Journalists’ (CAJ) Innovate News conference right around the corner, now might be a good time to get up to speed on all of the new developments in the world of new media, especially since things tend to change and develop at break-neck speed.
Images of war and disaster are heavily sanitized in North American news. The public has become used to seeing symbols of death, not actual death. It’s a situation that leaves editors and producers grappling with horror versus taste as images from Haiti tumble in. Showing reality is important, but no one wants to stand accused…
Journalists were among the first outsiders to rush to the scene of the earthquake in Haiti. While most have described the devastation and challenges confronting survivors with professionalism and humanity, Jeff Sallot writes, some are using the assignment to promote their own celebrity.
Once in a while software designers do something little that makes life a lot easier. The folks at Microsoft have done that by adding a shortcut command to remove hyperlinks from cells in Excel 2010. I’ve been testing the beta version to see what it offers for journalists. If you have ever cut and pasted some data…
On Feb. 1, five journalists will reportedly lock themselves up in a French farmhouse for several days with only Twitter and Facebook for outside information, “to test the quality of news from the social networking and micro-blogging sites” ….
Broadcasters and publishers know they can count on at least two responses to portraying graphic images of death and destruction: complaints about disgusting or invasive displays of blood and gore; and, journalists writing stories about media’s insensitivity or sensationalism. According to one broadcaster, the gatekeepers are constantly debating the responsibility of revealing the cruelty…
An editorial study conducted by the Seattle Times looked at how contextual advertising (affinity to content determines ad placement) impacted readers’ perceptions of online news content. It found most readers were comfortable with contextual ads in sections focused on softer news – like sports, travel and entertainment – but were not happy to see them next to hard news stories about…
As part of a newly launched study into the future of media, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has posted a lengthy, hyperlinked collection of recent studies and articles on media’s future from a wide range of (American) sources.