Après avoir analysé plusieurs numéros du Winnipeg Sun, le chercheur Pete Hudson de l'Université du Manitoba conclut que le quotidien du groupe Quebecor/Sun est un journal de propagande. Inquiet du poids politique du conglomérat médiatique, il n'hésite pas à mettre en parallèle les liens de l'empire Murdoch avec le gouvernement Cameron en Grande-Bretagne et ceux…
Guardian columnist George Monbiot thinks so — and not just your salary, he writes, but every source of income. Book deals; how much is in your savings accounts; whether you charge rent to tenants — all of it.
The second and final set of finalists in the 2011 Canadian Online Publishing Awards has been announced. The leaders in this round include Cyberpresse (seven nominations), Edmonton Journal and Toronto Star (six nominations each) in the newspaper division, while Fashion and Truck News (three nominations each) lead the magazine categories. Online-only title Toronto Standard takes…
Not everybody thought The Onion's Thursday tweet "Breaking: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building" was very funny.
La plupart des quotidiens canadiens ont vu leur lectorat augmenter entre septembre 2010 et juin 2011, selon les dernières données de NADbank. Ces chiffres parus aujourd'hui révèlent que plus de la moitié des adultes canadiens des 6 plus grandes villes du pays et d'Halifax lisent un quotidien tous les jours et qu'environ 8 sur 10…
Police investigating Vancouver's Stanley Cup riots want media to hand over its footage — and have started to serve warrants, reports the Canadian Press. You can check out the full story, here. In the meantime, let us know: Should media hand over the footage, or fight the warrant? [node:ad]
B.C.-based journalist Stanley Tromp has created a resource for journalism students and scholars: the Journalism Review Index. In the site's own words: "There are several thousand articles on journalism topics available in archived issues of journalism review magazines around the world. These range from philosophical to practical; several are time-dated, others timeless; some are localized,…
The results of Canada’s latest freedom of information audit are in, and journalists hoping for progress since the 2007 and 2009 audits will be disappointed. As well, there have been some questionable provincial policies of late, notably in B.C. Canada’s FOI reputation has suffered internationally in recent years, with moves such as the Harper government’s…
Loin de s'abreuver à une source d'information unique, les Américains butinent d'un média et d'une plateforme à l'autre pour s'informer sur leur communauté et leurs choix dépendent des sujets qui les intéressent, révèle une nouvelle analyse du Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Si la télévision tient toujours le haut du pavé, le…
Montreal is set to host a media and human rights conference this month. Officially dubbed, "The Promise of Media in Halting Mass Atrocities: A Conference to Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect", the conference will feature many guest speakers from the journalism, academic, political, and humanitarian fields. The list includes: Liet. General…