Over the past few months, numerous students expressed concern over their choice to become a journalist in the face of great uncertainty regarding the future of the news industry. Yes, it looks bad. Really bad. Everything that has existed for so long is destroyed. But, Rob Washburn notes, there are shoots of opportunity sprouting from the…
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: CJFE awards media lawyer with Vox Libera award, remember Canada’s version of The Newsroom?, journos on reporting labour stats and UN calls for protection of journalists. And today’s read: the National Post’s Andrew Coyne on Canada’s hate speech law.
New York Times’ media columnist David Carr’s Monday column takes a look at another daunting problem facing newspapers: paying journalists’ pensions.
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: One journo looks at self-plagiarizing, OMNI to broadcast CEMA Awards, Regulators to consider if Sun News is dependable, says one writer and why one journalist was called to death by an imam. And today’s read: are you getting errors when trying to log on? Here’s why.
The scandal over Jonah Lehrer's self-plagiarism at the New Yorker has subsided but the controversy highlighted growing pressure on writers to write more for less pay in a content-hungry online media industry. Jeff Fraser explains who this hurts and where the blame should lie.
Three new international peer-reviewed journals will offer journalism scholars and researchers new venues to publish their work and move discussion and exploration surrounding topics of digital journalism, journalism education, and interdisciplinary studies in communication forward.
It’s now been confirmed that Pierre Duchense will be running as the Parti Quebecois candidate in the riding of Borduas. It’s also been confirmed that the Quebec Liberal Party has lodged a formal complaint against the former Radio-Canada journalist to the Quebec Press Council as well as the Radio-Canada ombudsman based on Duchense’s decision to run.
You may have noticed a different look and feel of the front section of yesterday's Toronto Star. This won't be the last time these tracing paper-like ads are seen on the front of Canada's largest daily.
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: Former Radio-Canada reporter gets support to run for PQ, cartoonists talk to Jian Ghomeshi, one journo writes an obit for journalism and Al-Jazeera’s The Stream’s twitter gets hacked. And today’s read: Canadian unemployment rate falls to 7.2 per cent. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple…
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Dean Del Mastro is blaming the media for the controversy that has arisen from the fact the Conservative MP for Peterborough is the subject of a reported Elections Canada investigation.