Whether it’s the National Post apologizing for a nasty ad, or the Globe and Mail placing a disclaimer on humour, there’s been more than one report datelined Land O' Gaffes in recent weeks. Did Kevin O’Leary call Chris Hedges a “nutbar” or a “nutcase?” Either slur breached CBC policy, according to an ombudsman review –…
L'éditrice de l'hebdomadaire indépendant Accès Laurentides, Josée Pilotte, n'en démord pas. Dix jours après avoir accusé Quebecor d'asphyxier l'information régionale, elle récidive. Dans une seconde lettre adressée au patron du conglomérat, Pierre-Karl Péladeau, elle lui reproche de faire du dumping pour s'accaparer les annonceurs et éliminer ainsi les journaux concurrents.
CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe has a message for journos in his latest review: Don't call your guest names.
J-Source's Investigative Journalism editor Cecil Rosner brings us a special dispatch from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev: What it was like for the investigative journalists who worked with Julian Assange, and why one will never do it again.
L'économie s'est hissée en tête des préoccupations médiatiques aux États-Unis la semaine dernière, essentiellement en raison de la couverture grandissante du mouvement Occupy Wall Street, selon les statistiques du Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Les protestataires n'occupent plus seulement les rues de New York, mais aussi celles de Los Angeles, de Chicago et…
An Ontario judge has found no grounds for preventing the media from reporting that one of three people accused of murder has pleaded guilty, even though the co-accused will stand trial soon. And another judge of the province’s Superior Court has refused to seal documents filed in a civil case despite a claim they reveal…
«Ici CIBL Radio-Montréal… pour y rester.» C'est sur ces mots que se termine le livre CIBL. 30 ans de radio citoyenne lancé hier soir dans les locaux de la station dans l'est de Montréal. Avec la complicités des artisans de la station, les auteurs Chloé Sondervorst et Robert Blondin signent «un livre qui s'écoute comme une émission de…
What happens when serious journalists moonlight as celebrities? And what does it mean for the industry's credibility? These questions are at the heart of a recent Postmedia feature by Misty Harris published in the Vancouver Sun.
Applications are now being accepted for the latest addition to the list of post-graduate journalism programs in Canada. The University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs says this new program will train subject specialists to be "super-freelancers."
In Second Wounds, media scholar Carrie Rentschler traces the emergence of victim advocacy in the U.S. from the sixties until the present. Rentschler also explores the relationship the victim’s rights movement and the media, describing how U.S. reporting on crime has been influenced by the movement’s idea of the “secondary victim” as well as theories of…