Twitter may have existed during 2008’s campaign but it was nowhere near as ubiquitous as it is now. Indeed, as Kathleen Petty quips in the most recent edition of CBC’s The House, “The campaign wasn’t even underway when people started referring to it as the Twitter campaign.” But how exactly is what’s happening in the…
The Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting has received a whopping $37,000 from the Montreal-based Chawkers Foundation.
Simon Houpt says just weeks before the Sun is about to launch its own tv station, the newspaper is writing a number of critical articles about the CBC, accusing it of political bias. He reports in The Globe and Mail that the half dozen articles in the Sun chain of newspapers “are helping to fuel…
Surprise, surprise: Online pay walls may not be the stuff of publishers’ dreams, after all. At least, not in Canada. According to a recently released study by the Canadian Media Research Consortium, more than 90 per cent of Canadians who get their news online say they wouldn’t pay if their favourite sites started charging for…
Les propos de Luc Lavoie, architecte de Sun News, à notre micro, n’en finissent pas de faire sourciller. Le chroniqueur média du Devoir, Stéphane Baillargeon, y consacre ce matin une chronique complète intitulée «Vers le populisme».
It didn’t take long for Toronto city staffers to react after copies of NOW Magazine’s March 31st edition hit Toronto City Hall newsstands. Staff were sent to scour City of Toronto locations, trashing every copy of the issue featuring the now infamous photoshopped pic of the Mayor. But did NOW also go too far?
BCE Inc. closed its $3.2-billion acquisition of CTV on Friday, a full 90 days ahead of schedule. The communications giant has wasted no time releasing a new strategy, also announcing the launch of Bell Media the same day.
Who says Canadians don’t have a sense of humour? It’s now after noon — the generally agreed-to expiry date for all April Fool’s pranks — in all of Canada. In honour of protecting our right to call ourselves a funny nation, J-Source presents a round-up of this year’s Canuck media pranks.
CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe has added his voice to the Elizabeth May uproar. While LaPointe has decided not to conduct a review into the Canadian broadcast consortium’s decision to exclude the Green Party from the televised leaders’ debate, despite what he called “hundreds of complaints”, he does have a few choice words for the consortium.
Chaque vendredi, «le Buzz» revient sur les sujets qui ont attiré le plus votre attention sur notre site et notre fil Twitter au cours de la semaine. Au cours des derniers jours, vous avez été très nombreux sur les réseaux sociaux à réagir aux propos de Luc Lavoie, conseiller du président de Quebecor, Pierre-Karl Péladeau,…