CBSC rules Ezra Levant and Sun News Network breached code in Chiquita segment
Ezra Levant can’t say “fuck your mother” on air, even in Spanish, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled.
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Telling your own story: Kamal Al-Solaylee talks Intolerable
Journalists make a career of telling the stories of other people. But what about when it comes time to tell their own? Jeff Fraser explains how Kamal Al-Solaylee coped with this in the writing of his new book Intolerable, a personal memoir that documents his life as a gay man in the Middle East, his distinguished…
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Converger sans partager les contenus
Par Chantal Francoeur La convergence n’a pas d’impact sur la diversité des nouvelles. L’affirmation étonne mais c’est le constat de chercheurs canadiens qui ont étudié trois entreprises de presse en 2007. Colette Brin, Kai Hildebrandt, Lydia Miljan et Walter C. Soderlund ont analysé les contenus des groupes CTVglobemedia, Canwest Global Communications et Quebecor. Ils ont…
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Voir: le malaise d’une blogueuse
Quelques semaines après que Communications Voir ait annoncé qu'il mettait la clef sous la porte de ses éditions imprimées au Saguenay et en Mauricie et fermait l'hebdomadaire anglophone Hour, hier, le rédacteur en chef du navire amiral montréalais, Tristan Malavoy-Racine, tirait sa révérence. La veille, la chroniqueuse Josée Legault annonçait la fin de sa chronique, «pour cause de restrictions budgétaires».…
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Victoria’s Times Colonist wins 2011 Michener Award
The Times Colonist in Victoria, B.C. is the recipient of the 2011 Michener Award for a series exposing a policy put fourth by the B.C. government, which reduced funding for people with development disabilities.
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When the news breaks: Inside Toronto newsrooms
How did two Toronto newsrooms manage their coverage of two big stories last weekend in Union Station flooding and the Eaton Centre shooting? Angelina Irinici found out. As well, Huffington Post Canada intern Brian Trinh gives his first-person account of unexpectedly reporting live from the Eaton Centre during the shootings.
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J-Links for June 13: CTV, RTDNA apps; Greek journos give it one last shot; a family reunited after 25 years
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: CTV News’ app helps cottagers on their way, the Star wants to fix your problems, RTDNA’s new conference app and Greek journos refuse to call it quits. And today’s read: a story of a son and mother finding each other after 25 years.
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Following the gunshots: HuffPost intern Brian Trinh on reporting from the Eaton Centre shooting
Brian Trinh was at the Eaton Centre on June 2 as a shopper, not a reporter. But when gunshots rang out in the Toronto mall's busy upscale food court, the Huffington Post Canada intern did what only journalists and emergency service employees do: He followed the sound of the shots and the screams to get…
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Newfoundland opposition filibusters bill seeking to restrict access to information
Newfoundland’s 11 opposition members of the House of Assembly are set to filibuster legislation that would make large categories of government documents secret.
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Comment commence une histoire d’Enquête?
C'est par cette question que l'animateur de l'émission Enquête, Alain Gravel, a commencé il y a quelques jours son allocution devant un parterre d'étudiants et de professeurs en journalisme lors de la remise des prix Lizette-Gervais 2012. Sa réponse: «ça commence toujours par une source».