Centennial College journalist in residence Lynne Russell examines the difficulties of teaching the latest crop of j-students — many of whom believe their smart phones hold the keys to truth. This article originally appeared on PBS MediaShift.
British Columbia's recent freedom-of-information policy change may look good on the surface, but dig a little deeper, writes Sean Holman, and it's nothing but bad news. The editor of Public Eye, a popular website covering B.C. politics, tells us why.
While most of us lament the end of summer, writes Lisa Taylor, there is one thing to cheer: the end of silly season in news. An examination of how endless sunny days + slow news + journalist = lapse in critical thinking.
Summer headlines were captured by the Layton funeral, the Norway killings, and an ongoing U.S. political circus. Meanwhile, an immense humanitarian disaster in Somalia lingered in the back pages. The Atlanta Post accuses North American media of ignoring the crisis. By early August, the spreading famine finally began to capture the U.S. news cycle, and…
CBC Videographer Charlsie Agro was called up from Windsor to work in Toronto this summer. Little did she know she'd be covering one of the biggest stories of the year, the death of NDP leader Jack Layton. What did Agro learn? Market size doesn't matter when it comes to the essential skills of journalism.
WikiLeaks and The New York Times are perhaps offically no longer BFFs.
Au lendemain de l'annonce de l'acquisition de deux hebdomadaires par Transcontinental dans l'Est du Québec, Quebecor riposte. Sa filiale Sun Media annonce le lancement de deux nouveaux hebdomadaires en Mauricie: L'Écho de Trois-Rivières et L'Écho de Shawinigan. Ils seront distribués dès demain à 101 000 foyers dans Le Sac Plus, le nouveau sac de circulaires…
CTV Ottawa's News at Six is ready to hit the road. The team will deliver its dinner hour newscast live at five locations across Eastern Ontario during the week of September 12th.
Back in the 1990s, Pulitzer Prize winning journo Steve Twomey circulated a memorandum at the San Jose Mercury News from the fictional "Lede Desk". In it: Thirteen rules for curbing the cliché in lede writing.
The Guardian has an excellently-reasoned (if not extremely depressing) article about the end of books and writers on its website right now — and if you haven't read it yet, you should.