Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: The effects of an explosion at Calgary’s Shaw headquarters, why three big time bloggers are shutting down their blogs, Bell’s new guide to Olympic coverage and taking a look at Scandinavian papers’ paywalls. And today’s read: horse race at Calgary Stampede leaves two horses dead and one…
CBC may have canned Connect with Mark Kelley, but the show’s former host has found a new home with the public broadcaster.
The Globe and Mail’s online multimedia series “Inside Hamas” has been nominated for a News Documentary Emmy Award.
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: Alberta papers offering buyout packages, be wary of “tech geeks” when it comes to content,Rabble.ca’s new iBook and Mexican papers halt crime coverage after grenade attack. And today’s read: the story of a former Toronto woman who runs a safe house for Al-Qaeda suicide bombers.
The Ryerson Review of Journalism and its contributors from the Winter and Summer 2012 issues have won a number of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) awards.
More changes are ahead for Postmedia newspapers as the company looks to reinvent itself. With the company reporting another quarter of losses yesterday, Belinda Alzner explains what is to come, the company's digital first agenda and how last month's restructuring fits in to the bigger picture.
On the 30th anniversary of Access to Information, David McKie sees reason for positivity: If we’re capable of doing stories with a weak law that gives the government too many ways to withhold information, and the information commissioner too few powers to force institutions to hand over records, then think of the stories we could do with an…
Steve Ladurantaye has covered a lot of stories from flakey TV stars to competition in the real estate industry. But this was his first time covering a sporting event. Here is what he learned while covering last weekend’s Toronto Argonauts game.
Today’s media links from Canadan and beyond: Bell Media’s moves as soon-to-be owners of Astral Media, a journalist cowboy’s 16,000 km trek, Conrad Black wants his voice to be heard and two more journalists arrested in England in Elveden investigation. And today’s read: What city is the country’s best? Stephen Harper says Calgary.
Think your working conditions are tough? Laurel Clark, a journalist with Global Edmonton, recently returned from Monrovia, Liberia, where she and a Global colleague were mentoring Liberian journalists at a local television station. Somewhere between her admiration for the Liberian journalists’ dedication and lamenting their lack of funding, Clark found a new appreciation for practicing journalism in…