Faut-il agir contre le discours des radios privées parlées à Québec? Voici la question que posait la Ligue des droits et libertés, section de Québec, à la quarantaine d’individus venus assister à la discussion jeudi dernier, qui a eu lieu dans les locaux du Centre de l’environnement. Un débat auquel ont participé les professeures et…
The Globe and Mail will have to find a new home after parent company Woodbridge Co. Ltd. announced its decision to sell a parcel of land that had been slated for a new building that would have seen the news organization as a tenant.
On Monday morning, Justice Hackland rendered his decision on Rob Ford's conflict of interest trial: Ford was found to have violated the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and has been ousted from office after a 14-day period, though he intends to appeal the decision. Belinda Alzner rounded up how Toronto City Hall reporters covered the story.
Television news is here to stay for at least the foreseeable future, but in an age of instant information, networks must provide more than just the scheduled newscast to keep their audience engaged. Eric Mark Do reports from the recent CJF J-Talk, where a panel of Canadian broadcast executives discussed why their networks are still the sources people rely…
ProjetJ, en collaboration avec le Trente, vous présente quelques compte-rendus des ateliers présentés au congrès 2012 de la FPJQ. Les journalistes méritaient-ils motions de méfiance votées par les associations étudiantes? Ont-ils été trop proches du pouvoir ou des grévistes ou ont-ils servi de punching bag aux deux parties? Ont-ils trop mis l'accent sur les manifestations…
ProjetJ, en collaboration avec le Trente, vous présente quelques compte-rendus des ateliers présentés au congrès 2012 de la FPJQ. Une compression budgétaire n'attend pas l'autre à Radio-Canada. À la toute veille des audiences du CRTC sur l'avenir du diffuseur public et dans le silence tonitruant du public, faut-il s'inquiéter du sort qui attend l'information publique?
The Grid's cover story this week is a profile of controversial Toronto Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy comes a month after she made what at least one journalist called an attempt to “self-destruct” on Twitter. A self-described “shit disturber,” some other journalists refused to be interviewed about Levy for the Grid feature, and in the past, councillors have literally run away from her.
Sun Media is restructuring in a big way – a 500-jobs-cut kind of big way. Former editorial page editor Rob Granatstein says the cuts have “crushed local newsrooms,” but Toronto Sun editor-in-chief James Wallace disagrees, responding that the cuts to editorial are hardly “gutting,” though they aren’t made without pain.
Toronto Sun editor-in-chief James Wallace responds to Rob Granatstein’s lament on Sun Media’s 500 job cuts, saying that that the cuts to editorial are hardly “gutting,” (though they aren’t made without pain) and that Sun’s restructuring comes in response to “an industry caught mid-evolution between old traditions and new realities.”
How can broadcast news best deliver quality journalism while keeping ever-fragmenting audiences? That's one question among many that Steve Paikin, anchor and senior editor of TVO's The Agenda posed to a panel of broadcast executives at Thursday night's CJF J-Talk: "Keeping You on the Tube: The Mission of Broadcast News." J-Source liveblogged and livestreamed the discussion with Wendy Freeman, president…