Les médias de masse traitent très peu de sujets religieux et quand ils le font ils s'intéressent essentiellement aux situations conflictuelles contribuant ainsi à la peur de l'autre et non au vivre ensemble. C'est ainsi que plusieurs participants au Colloque Média et religion, qui se tenait lundi dans le cadre des entretiens Jacques-Cartier, ont décri…
Sarah Millar responds to Russell Smith's recent Globe and Mail piece, where he laments that young writers, unlike older writers, don’t seem to care if they get paid for their work. This post originally appeared on her blog, Through the Looking Glass.
A group of Concordia journalism students delve into the role social media and journalism can play in preventing mass atrocities and genocide in the premier edition of this Journalists for Human Rights "Rights Check-up" podcast. This podcast was originally broadcast on Rabble.ca
This month, Osgoode law professor Jamie Cameron's work will culminate in an unprecedented interdisciplinary gathering of media lawyers, journalists and scholars meeting on Friday, October 14 at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School to examine the role of—and pressures on–the media in a democratic society. Kimberley Noble reports.
Carleton University's Dwayne Winseck opines about three issues in the federal government's hands that he argues will influence an independent free media: the copyright act; the process to choose a new CRTC head; and, the 'lawful-access' legislation.This article originally appeared on Winseck's blog, Mediamorphis.
J-Source’s Rhiannon Russell caught up with The Onion’s features editor Joe Garden, in town for the satirical paper’s Toronto launch, to chat about Canada, what makes it funny, and what’s in store for the Canuck edition.
Maria Assaf listens in as four CBC foreign correspondents demystify the challenges of foreign reporting. Anna-Maria Tremonti, Adrienne Arsenault, Peter Armstong, and cameraman Mike Heenan talk straight at the network's recent open house panel about reporting in war zones and foreign countries where nothing, it sometimes seems, is ever easy.
Vancouver police are serving warrants to collect hockey riot footage from media outlets. British media recently faced the same dilemma in the wake of the London riots. How things change: in 2008, a Quebec court ordered police to return Radio-Canada’s raw footage of a hockey riot. But that same year, the Hamilton Spectator lost its…
They've left their jobs as TV anchors or hosts – at least during the Ontario election campaign to stand on the other side of the microphone. [node:ad] TVO's Steve Paikin brought six provincial candidates together for a compelling discussion about the switch from journalism to politics, two days before they find out if their next…
Toronto's latest all-news TV channel is now on the air and if you're a Rogers subscriber in Toronto you can't miss it as it pops up on channel 'one' when you turn on your cable box. But it's also livestreaming, as it claims to be the "only Toronto news station to be available live on…