Reporters now have any variety of new technology at their fingertips when reporting from the courts, but when it comes to court process itself, they find themselves fighting the same old battles for exhibits, seats and access to lawyers and judges. Eric Mark Do reports from a panel discussion on court reporting held at Ryerson University.
When the police want your photographs, should you comply? Jared Gnam looks at the ethical and legal issues surrounding a recent court order that saw six news organizations hand over their photographs and video to police to aid in the investigation of the 2011 Vancouver riot for the Langara Journalism Review.
The Globe and Mail has returned the Online Journalism Award it received from the Online News Association last month for its Breaking Caste multimedia series after realizing it had entered in the wrong category by mistake.
What is the role of a social media editor inside a news organization? New research by University of King’s College online journalism professor Tim Currie sheds some light on the level of integration that Canadian social media editors have in their respective newsrooms, the unique challenges that face them and how they position themselves with their audiences.
J-Links for Oct. 2: Bert Archer on The Globe; Ukranian journos protest; Voter ID law halted in Pennsylvania
OpenFile announced that it has temporarily suspended publication of its six city editions, leaving questions about the future of the news organization and its editors, curators and reporters. Eric Mark Do explains what has happened, OpenFile’s business model and hints at some changes that are to come for the online news start-up.
Eric Morrison has been named Sun Media’s new vice president of editorial and will lead the company in a reorganization of news operations on all platforms, Quebecor Media Inc. said today in a release.
J-Links: CJFE names Press Freedom Award winners; Where's Wente on the bad-journo continuum?; Koppel on partisan journalism
It wasn’t just Margaret Wente’s apparent failure to properly attribute a 2009 column that captivated journalists over the last week, but also The Globe and Mail’s response and the role that the blogosphere and social media played. Eric Mark Do and Belinda Alzner compiled the coverage of the story as it has progressed, the reaction it garnered…
Like millions of Canadians Robert Lewis remembers exactly where he was when Paul Henderson scored the goal that won the 1972 Summit Series for Canada against the Soviet Union: In the stands at Moscow’s Luzhniki Ice Palace, reporting for Time magazine.