This Sunday, July 10 will mark the last issue of 168-year-old UK paper News of the World. The decision comes after the latest chapter in the paper’s long phone hacking scandal, which has had the public in the U.K, and fellow journalists, raging since 2006.
The most recent edition to the years-long hacked phones scandal in the United Kingdom shows the need for greater accountability in news everywhere, argues today’ editorial in The Globe and Mail.
Kevin Newman has signed on as the new co-host of CTV’s Question Period, just in time for the start of the program’s 41st season in September. He joins longtime current host Craig Oliver.
L'attitude des journalistes dans le processus d'acquisition de Rue Frontenac par l'homme d'affaires Marcel Boisvert «ressemble à une tentative d'extorsion», selon Michel Strecko, le conseiller du nouveau propriétaire du site.
In just one year, Bart Brouwers has grown Dutch hyperlocal Dichtbij’s (meaning “close by” or “close to me”) website network to 85 communities from just three. It’s been fast, he told European Centre of Journalism reporter Alexandru-Brdu Ulmanu, but the trick is to keep a balance between opportunities and costs. To Brouwers, part of that…
The Onion made big news yesterday when it announced its first-ever foray into a city outside the U.S. In case you missed it, the satirical magazine, and its pop-culture sister pub, the A.V. club, have teamed up with the Toronto Star to bring a print edition to Toronto, starting this fall.
Le duc et la duchesse de Cambridge poursuivent leur tournée canadienne. Ils sont aujourd’hui en Alberta. À leur suite, comment s’organisent les 1396 journalistes canadiens et étrangers accrédités pour suivre leur voyage d’Ottawa à Calgary en passant, notamment, par Montréal et Yellowknife? ProjetJ a posé la question à la journaliste Jessica Murphy qui couvre l’événement…
Today’s Globe and Mail editorial on the death of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad calls on democratic countries, including Canada, to stand up for freedom of the press by first standing up to Pakistan.
Tony Burman, of both CBC and Al Jazeera fame, has been appointed the Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair in News Media and Technology at Ryerson University’s j-School.
While dissident journalists are silenced or jailed, Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has a lot to say to those in the West who still entertain the fantasy that Cuba and Castroism are models of social organization.