Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: Jan Wong’s memoir a hit, an award-winning essay, Calgary Herald columnist: bleak future for journos, and pricey links. And today’s read: journalists discuss the significance of the student uprising.
Plusieurs vous le diront: on ne devient pas journaliste pour devenir riche. Et pour cause: le journaliste lambda québécois est loin de gagner le salaire d'un médecin ou d'un avocat, même après plusieurs années d'ancienneté. ProjetJ a exploré les grilles salariales de La Presse, de Radio-Canada, de TVA, du Journal de Montréal et du Devoir.
Surely, there are stories out there that the media isn’t covering. But why? That’s the focus of a new column that Bilbo Poynter will be writing for This Magazine, called Stories Undone.
The Quebec student protests against rising tuition fees have been covered around the world, with extensive coverage in Canada as well, including regular news coverage, features, opinion pieces and viral videos. The CBC even created an in-depth, interactive timeline on its website. Being a journalist covering the protests has been frustrating, and at times, dangerous. Journalists…
Par Justin Ling Je me suis frotté à la matraque, j'ai été à un pied de me faire trancher la tête par une poubelle volante, j'ai été arrêté et détenus par le SPVM… bref, j'avais besoin de ventiler avec des confrères. J'ai donc fait ce que n'importe quel journaliste moderne ferait: j'ai créé un mot-clic à…
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: a foreign correspondent on The Middle East, Global News adds programming, the Post’s easiest crossword and UK journo free of charges of phone-hacking leak. And today’s read: developing reports connecting hand, foot and torso discovered yesterday.
Justin Ling has been covering the Montreal student protests for a while — long enough to have seen the violence against journalists and to have been arrested and released (in a very public manner). What has it been like as a freelance journalist covering the protests? He gives his first-person account.
Le groupe PostMedia Network Inc. se restructure. Il centralise les fonctions d'édition et demande à ses équipes de se concentrer sur la nouvelle locale et le numérique. En conséquence, plus d'une vingtaine de postes disparaîtront dans la salle de rédaction du quotidien Montréalais The Gazette, principalement des postes de pupitreurs.
The New York Times may be reporting moderate success with this attempt at its paywall but, well, it's The New York Times. According to Jeff Fraser, if Canadian newspapers implementing paywalls — Postmedia's The Ottawa Citizen and The Globe and Mail most notably — are to succeed, they're going to have to establish their value all…
Today’s roundup of media links from Canada and beyond: Postmedia should invest, says CWA, Inuit broadcaster passes away, CBC Sask. wins awards and Greek journos strike. And today’s read: The Globe’s Sylvia stead on British media