On April 15, the London Free Press launched an initiative to help the community better interact with the paper. Citizens can now contact the paper with ideas, and the paper will provide an editor to help bring those stories to print — with the citizen’s byline. Innovative, right? Only if you plan on squelching the…
Industry guru D.B Scott has won the 2010 Award for Outstanding Achievement, granted each year by the National Magazine Awards Foundation. As the NMAF presser says: “With a dynamic career spanning four decades, D.B. Scott has earned his reputation as an eminent authority in the Canadian magazine industry. [His] experience is vast and varied.” Scott…
Disclosure: This radio clip link is for a show done by my friend, Sean Holman, and includes my husband, Alan Bass, who has been researching and speaking on professionalizing journalism for several years. Given the recent move in Quebec and some chatter on the Canadian Association of Journalists list, I thought some people might be…
Jay Rosen’s been teaching journalism for a quarter-century and, recognizing the milestone, he’s written about what he thinks he knows about it. Given the changes that have occurred in the past 25 years, his observations are interesting.
Terry Milewski is getting drowned out, Elizabeth May is getting left out, and tweeters everywhere are getting ready to speak out. As the clock ticks down to e-day, follow the ongoing adventures of the reporters, bloggers, politicos and pollsters in J-Source’s Election 2011 Special Section. What do you think about the stories? Comment early, comment…
La dernière ligne droite de la première campagne électorale fédérale 2.0 est lancée. Au cours des dernières semaines, journalistes et politiciens ont été nombreux à intégrer les médias sociaux à leur quotidien. Si bien que le sujet a fait couler beaucoup d'encre depuis un mois. La base de données Eureka recense en effet plus de…
Before launching It’s Your Life, Terri-Ann Cormier didn’t know squat about the publishing biz, but that didn’t stop her from following her dream. Literally.
Salon has an interesting article on war-zone journalism, one that is unfortunately apropos today.
“Where the marketplace is unable to serve, that’s the role of public media,” PBS president Paula Kerger said last year. It appears PBS and NPR are putting that motto into action. This article from the Huffington Post provides details of recent investments into the kind of journalism that is shrinking in for-profit American outlets.
More turbulent relations between journalists and Stephen Harper on the campaign trail. A crowed of partisan supporters apparently led by Conservative staffers, created shouting chaos when CBC’s Terry Milewski pressed Harper with followup questions. The incident, in Mississauga on Saturday, followed Milewski’s questions about the links between a man acquitted in the Air India bombing…