In Canadian media: Bob Johnstone dead at 82 Bob Johnstone is a renowned Canadian storyteller; his voice perhaps best known for his “Today in History” radio features, though he worked on all three major mediums over the course of his career. Johnstone spent two decades at the Toronto Star and was an original host…
Gamers, welcome to your new mainstream media home. The National Post has announced it will launch a video game-centric site called Post Arcade with the team that runs the Financial Post Tech Desk.
Yesterday we brought you the important stories of the summer in Canadian media. Now, here's The Globe and Mail's Simon Houpt's list of the silly news stories that were a product of summertime.
J-Links for August 30: CBSC rules against homophobic comments; NMA offers free ebook; Salon calls out Ryan lies at Republican National Convention
The Online News Association has announced the nominees for the 2012 Online Journalism Awards, which will be given out at the ONA annual conference on Sept. 22. This year, the conference is taking place in San Fransisco.
“I’m in it to find the truth/hold power to account/tell peoples’ stories — not for the money” will surely be the answer you get if you ask a journalist why he or she is in the industry. But realistically, how much can a journalist expect to make throughout his or her career? Angelina Irinici and Belinda…
When it comes to television journalism, what is considered "staging" and where do you draw the line? Daniel Viola won an AEJMC Award in Chicago earlier this month for this piece, which examines television staging of varying degrees — from recreating scenes, to asking sources to walk down a hallway or type at a computer — and…
Summer brings with it a whole slew of distractions, but now that September is just around the corner, it’s time to catch up on the things you may have missed. Belinda Alzner rounds up some of the biggest stories about the Canadian journalism industry that were talked about on J-Source this summer.
Every summer for the last six years, Kim Kierans has travelled to the Philippines to teach working journalists new skills and help them develop old ones. Angelina Irinici finds out what unique challenges these journalists face in terms of ethics and press freedom and why Kierans’ biggest desire is to become obsolete.
Paul Woods appointed as Ryerson’s visiting professor in journalism for 2012-2013