So you’re in j-school and the professors are telling you to make a Twitter account. You may or may not already use Twitter, but now it’s time to have a professional account for journalism. Start with the 100 Twitter accounts every journalism student should follow that Journalism.co.uk has compiled. (And of course, Canadian students…
Carol Wainio is a Canadian visual artist and adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. She has also been writing about the media and Canadian columnists for years on her blog, Media Culpa. She answered a few questions from J-Source associate editor Belinda Alzner about why she blogs, why the focus on Wente and why she thinks…
The Globe and Mail editor-in-chief John Stackhouse responded to allegations that high-profile columnist Margaret Wente had made major journalistic errors on Monday evening, writing in a memo to staff that Wente's 2009 column that gained notoriety in social media over the previous five days was "unacceptable."
The Canadian Farm Writers Federation has released the results of its annual competition. Long time Winnipeg Free Press regional reporter Bill Redekop won the top press feature award. Top winners of daily, weekly and monthly press reporting were, respectively: Mia Rabson, Winnipeg Free Press, Mary MacArthur, Western Producer and Mary Baxter, Better Farming magazine. Ontario…
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Carol Wainio is an artist who has exhibited widely in Canada, including at the National Gallery. She teaches Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. In her spare time she blogs on matters of journalistic integrity. She specializes in detecting plagiarism.Sylvia Stead is the newly named public editor of The Globe and Mail. The paper…
We need to hold seasoned, high-profile journalists to the same standards that we expect future generations of journalists to uphold, Anne McNeilly argues. But how the industry has, at times, responded this year to Jonah Lehrer, Fareed Zakaria and now Margaret Wente has not set the best example.
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No one said that breaking into the highly competitive sports media industry was easy. But, as Steph Rogers reports, if there’s anything that the panelists at Tuesday night’s Fast Break event could agree makes for successful careers, it’s being talented, getting lucky, and—surprisingly—being a nice person.
The Globe and Mail’s public editor Sylvia Stead has responded to questions of plagiarism by Margaret Wente that were raised after a Media Culpa blog post detailing instances where the high-profile columnist supposedly failed to properly attribute prose and quotations the became widely circulated.