Quirks and Quarks host Bob McDonald gets Order of Canada
CBC’s Quirks and Quarks host Bob McDonald will officially become and Officer of the Order of Canada Friday.
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La concentration des médias et Quebecor toujours malmenés par l’opinion publique
La moitié des Québécois estiment que la concentration de la presse nuit au droit du public à une information de qualité et que Quebecor Media est le conglomérat qui utilise le plus ses journalistes pour servir les intérêts économiques ou politiques de ses dirigeants, selon le Baromètre des médias 2011 de la Chaire de recherche en éthique…
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Charlie Hebdo victime d’un attentat
Les locaux de Charlie Hebdo ont été incendiés dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi. Provoqué par un cocktail Molotov, l'incendie n'a pas fait de blessé, mais a détruit la rédaction du journal qui a été relogée temporairement dans les locaux du quotidien Libération. Pour souligner l'instauration de la charia en Libye et la victoire…
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Rob Ford’s freeze out
Toronto mayor Rob Ford may pride himself of being accessible to every regular Joe who phones him, but he's spent his first year in office freezing out selected media. Now, the motion to address the slights in the public arena, and get the mayor talking, has flopped. Rhiannon Russell has more.
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Five Questions for Rachel Pulfer
J-Source sits down for an in-depth interview with Rachel Pulfer, the newly-named executive director for Journalists for Human Rights, to chat about the organization's upcoming 10th anniversary, entering Libya, and combating the atmosphere of fear in post-conflict countries.
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Five Questions for Julian Sher
With this weekend’s cross-border investigative journalism conference fast approaching, J-Source sat down with speaker and Globe and Mail investigative guru Julian Sher to get some early tips. Sher dishes on scene-grabbing, brainstorming ideas, and finding hidden gems.
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Occupation blues
Caitlin Curran is the second U.S. journalist fired for joining the Occupy protests, although she claims she held up a protest sign as part of a reporting exercise. Lisa Simeone, host of an opera program on NPR, was fired earlier, despite her argument that opera is removed enough from current events that civic participation isn’t…
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La tablette multimédia, un moteur de consommation d’info
Plus de la moitié des adultes américains qui possèdent une tablette multimédia s'en servent pour s'informer et le tiers s'informent plus depuis qu'ils possèdent cet outil, selon une récente étude du Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Au Québec, les utilisateurs de tablettes sont eux aussi de grands consommateurs d'information, d'après les résultats d'une étude…
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Singing at a news conference?
In the growing list of funny things Americans do during the race for their party's presidential nomination, you can add Herman Cain singing out his news conference.
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Rick Perry doesn’t get the Globe’s joke
Texas governor, and Republican presidential hopeful, doesn’t get The Globe and Mail’s satire. Or, at least, it would seem that way after he recently took a jab at the Occupy movement by referencing a quote from a satirical Globe piece about Occupy Toronto.