In today's media news from Canada and beyond: Senator Brazeau calls Jen Ditchburn a bitch, B.C.'s Supreme Court okays Twitter in the courts, Charles Oberdorf is getting a student award in his honour and experts call for specific criminal penalties for crimes against freedom of expression. And today's read is an academic report about developing…
Par Angelina Irinichi Un stage en journalisme, c'est comme un premier rendez-vous. Ce peut être un horrible cauchemar que vous préférerez oublier ou le début de quelque chose de grand: le début d'une carrière. Alors que de nombreux jeunes journalistes commencent leur stage d'été, nous vous présentons trois expériences de stage qui ont débouché sur…
Postmedia Network Inc. announced Tuesday that it has sold its Don Mills head office in Toronto for $24 million. The property is home to Postmedia’s corporate headquarters and its newspaper the National Post.
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: Bell and CBC puts end to Olympic partnership, Edmonton to get new French FM radio station, Canadian company tries to make online portfolios easy and Iraq’s attempt to close 44 media outlets. And today’s read: Rescue crews working today to save two trapped in Elliot Lake shopping mall.
RTDNA Canada presented its annual awards Saturday evening at a gala event in Toronto, as part of its 50th anniversary conference.
You’d better believe that journalists, being obsessed with getting the facts right, will be the first to point out when facts about them are wrong. This may explain the lukewarm-at-best reviews that Aaron Sorkin’s latest drama series, The Newsroom, has garnered in the Canadian media over the last week.
A report from the BBC Trust that looks at the broadcasters coverage of the Arab Spring raises the question: How can broadcast and online news work best together?
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: Kathy English on superlatives in reporting, CTV’s Question Period’s Craig Oliver says good-bye, Ralph Klein receiving the Order of Canada and one journo’s career switch to working for the Vatican. And today’s read: meet the woman with a huge twitter voice in Canadian politics.
After 67 years of international shortwave service, Radio Canada International has gone off-air and online-only in response to drastic budget cuts that representatives say will leave them unable to produce content. Angelina Irinci reports that RCI says financial autonomy would help them out, but is the federal government willing to consider it?
Jeff Fraser rounds up the controversy over Jonah Lehrer's reuse of his own work that has grown throughout the week, raising questions about journalistic ethics surrounding plagiarism and recycling one's own words (without telling your bosses).