Documentary film is more popular than ever — at least judging by the record-high attendance at this year’s Toronto-based Hot Docs festival. According to a press release, an estimated 151,000 people attended the 11 day event, which featured 360 public screenings of 199 films on 16 screens across Toronto. Official film selections were chosen from…
Winners of the 30th Annual Atlantic Journalism Awards were announced this past weekend. Awards were presented in 30 categories, from TV, to print, to radio. The lifetime achievement award went to Doug McGee, former associate editor at the Cape Breton Post. McGee recently retired after 25 years in the spot. While there he was responsible…
Perhaps you’ve seen it. After all, the YouTube video of a Global TV news anchor bungling Osama bin Laden’s name now has 72,000-plus views. But for those who haven’t: the anchor calls him Obama bin Laden, and not just once, but through the whole news cast. As it turns out, this error is not uncommon.
The European Journalism Centre has a nice spotlight article on a new start-up called Investigative Dashboard. The ID, as its creators like to call it, is a multi-tasking website that offers loads of resources for investigative journalists worldwide. Not only does the site function as an aggregation platform for many journo tools, it also facilitates…
Journalist Mellissa Fung has now released a book describing the 28 days she spent in captivity in Afghanistan.
La Première chaîne de Radio-Canada devra trouver une nouvelle voix pour accompagner ses auditeurs de 9h à 11h00 en semaine. L’animatrice Christiane Charette, qui tient la barre de cette case horaire depuis cinq ans, a annoncé hier qu’elle mettait un terme à l’aventure. Elle accrochera son micro à la fin de la saison actuelle, le…
A few days ago, Eye Weekly publisher and editor-in-chief Laas Turnbull sent out this monumental tweet : “No more escort ads! That’s right: The Grid will be free of starburst-covered nipples and pixilated faces. Makes me feel kinda wistful.” While some readers will surely be happy to see the controversial ads go, we’re betting he’s…
Earlier this week, we reported that the Toronto Star had chosen to endorse the NDP in Monday night’s election, but that others, such as The Globe and Mail and the National Post, had all chosen the Conservatives. We didn’t include all the papers in our analysis. Lucky for us, Carleton University School of Journalism and…
The Press Complaints Commission in the UK is expected to start regulating reporter and Twitter feeds, according to a recent article in the Guardian.
By Stuart Soroka, Patrick Fournier, Fred Cutler and Dietlind Stolle The election campaign is over, and there are a number of other things we can start to worry about. Why, you might ask, should one of those things be freedom of the press? Canadians, after all, are rather well off in this regard. In Freedom…