J-Source reporter Alexandra Bosanac caught up with the former Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford at the paper’s send-off party last week to chat about Blatchford’s move to Postmedia, her time at the Globe and her first column at her new gig.
Reporting within a small community presents its own challenges, but media in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake face a much larger, longstanding conflict with neighbouring Francophone media. The community of 8,000 is located across the St. Lawrence River from Montreal and is home to a flourishing local media, with its own newspaper, online news outlet…
The Vancouver riot aftermath gives us a sobering glimpse of the future of the Internet, some commentators are noting. Has society created the court of Facebook? First there was the phenomenon of riot tourism photos – people taking pictures of themselves in front of burning cars. Bleacher Report notes that technology has outpaced crowd violence…
La plupart des journalistes doivent maintenant faire plus avec moins de temps et de ressources ce qui augmente inévitablement leur dépendance aux nouvelles préfabriquées par les experts en relation publique. C'est une des conclusions d'un rapport préparé pour MediaWise Trust par cinq chercheurs de l'école de journalisme de l'Université Cardiff en Grande-Bretagne.
Longtime Toronto Sun baseball columnist Bob Elliott — also known as Whispering Bob — has been honoured with the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s Jack Graney Award, presented to media members who’ve made an outstanding contribution to the sport. Check out Mike Koreen’s column in the Kingston Whig Standard for more on the award, Elliott’s…
Winners of the 2011 Western Magazine Awards were announced Friday in Vancouver. Swerve magazine was the biggest winner of the night, taking home Western Canada magazine of the year, as well as magazine of the year for NWT/Alberta, a gold award for best article, five written awards and one visual award. Vancouver Magazine took home…
It’s a hot topic, with many controversial overtones. But the International News Safety Institute plans to tackle it head-on in a new guide to safety for female journalists, and it is asking women around the world to help. For the project’s coordinator, Hannah Storm, the bottom line is that more needs to be done to…
Is chequebook journalism resurfacing? Check out CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe’s blog, themediamanager.com, which highlights two recent cases in the States. In one case, ABC paid a woman who received texts from congressman Anthony Weiner, and in another payments were made to a woman who had been held captive for 18 years in California. Both The…
La Cour Supérieure a consenti à donner un nouveau sursis à Rue Frontenac. Un mois après avoir obtenu 30 jours de protection de la Loi sur la faillite et l’insolvabilité, l’équipe en a obtenu ce matin 45 supplémentaires.
Ken Whyte is replacing Brian Segal as president of Rogers Publishing to run 55 Canadian magazines. Masthead Online published the memo from Keith Pelley, head of Rogers Media, of which Rogers Publishing is a division.