L'ombudsman de Radio-Canada, Julie Miville-Dechêne, quittera son poste le 31 juillet. Entrée en fonction le 1er avril 2007, elle a été nommée pour cinq ans. Elle part donc 9 mois avant la fin de son contrat.
There's a good chance you didn't make it to the Screen Futures conference in Australia, but UBC journalism prof Alfred Hermida did. After all, the conference featured a talk based on his new co-authored book, Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers. Now, he's offering a write-up of the talk's main points on his…
The Globe and Mail is set to move, but only next door.
In 2008, the Toronto Star published an article online about a Toronto man who was charged with the sexual assault of a pre-teen girl. More than a year later, the charges were dropped. "Now, not surprisingly," writes Toronto Star public editor Kathy English, "The man wants the news of his arrest to disappear from the…
Six mois après le dépôt du Rapport Payette, qui recommandait au gouvernement du Québec l'adoption d'une loi pour doter les journalistes d'un titre professionnel, l'Association canadienne des journalistes reste indécise. Est-elle en faveur de la principale recommandation du Groupe de travail sur le journalisme et l'avenir de l'information? Alexandra Bosanac, collaboratrice de notre branche anglophone,…
Poynter has gathered front page treatments from papers across the globe of the Oslo, Norway attacks. In Canada, the Toronto Sun and National Post both made the list. As Poynter notes, many papers from around the world showed a photo of the 32-year-old Norwegian man police say confessed to the killings; other papers ignored the attacks entirely.…
Bill Keller's columns for the New York Times Magazine will end in September, six months after they started.
After 40 years with the New York Post, the man who penned the famous headline "Headless Body in Topless Bar" has retired.
To all those quiet leaders out there, Poynter's Tom Huang has some simple words: It's OK. In fact, it's great. A quiet leader himself, Huang believe introverts can offer as much to the newsroom as their extrovert colleagues. Check out the whole article at Poynter for some tips on how to strengthen skills while staying…
In today's Globe and Mail, Judith Timson asks whether the News Corp. women — Rebekah Brooks and Wendi Deng Murdoch — are getting fair coverage from the media, or if they're surrounded by a bunch of negative stereotypes.