Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: Cabinet cuts affect Radio Canada International, Canadian reporters on Greek election, The Spec’s editor-in-chief on Watergate and Australia’s major newspaper chain experience cuts and paywalls. And today’s read: two sisters’ deaths devastate Quebec neighbourhood.
New legislation in Newfoundland vastly expands the ways the government can say no to freedom-of-information requests. J-source contributing editor and access expert Fred Vallance-Jones argues the bill goes too far.
The Newfoundland government says that Bill 29 will enhance and strengthen access to information. But as Belinda Alzner reports, the government's opposition and a couple of ATI experts disagree, instead saying Bill 29 will make it more difficult to get information from the provincial government.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has launched a six-month Fellowship to honour Paul Steiger, former chair of CPJ.
Today's media links from Canada and beyond: student press exposes police violence against protester, CBC commissioned Jack Layton biopic, former CTV reporter passed away and reporters kicked out of Mitt Romney event. And today's read: three dead after shooting at University of Alberta.
Evoking memories of the G20 protests in Toronto in 2010, concerns are being raised about police treatment of journalists during student protests in Montreal. Reporters have been arrested, told to stop filming and in some cases roughed up by police, according to reports.
The Literary Press Group has announced that the government has reversed its decision to revoke federal funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage, and that support for the Canada Book Fund has been restored.
Inconnue du grand public il y a six mois, la chaîne CUTV est devenue un acteur clef du paysage médiatique pour son regard unique sur le printemps québécois. Les équipes de la télévision communautaire de l'Université Concordia filment et diffusent en temps réel les manifestations populaires jour après jour et prennent ouvertement le parti des…
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: journos need to cover both sides, TorStar looks at paywalls but not merging, Ezra Levant violates CBSC ethics code and Russian editor claims death threats to reporter. And today’s read: The Tyee examines how far a good meal can go.
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