Last year's adaptation of The Elements of Style wasn't the first time young, white, educated males have parodied hip hop, and it surely won't be the last. But Chris Richardson, a media studies PhD candidate at Western University, says that lost in the chuckles and grammatical debates, however, is a discussion of what it means…
Newsrooms are using live blog technology as a gatekeeping tool for coverage during the Tori Stafford murder trial currently underway in London, Ontario. As journalists and editors grapple with efforts to provide real-time coverage of high profile cases, Twitter alone is problematic, as Toronto Star Public Editor Kathy English pointed out recently. Professor Robert Washburn…
Combien de personnes ont envahi les rues de Montréal hier pour manifester contre la hausse des frais de scolarité? 100 000, 200 000? Les rédactions ne sont pas d'accord. Alors que Le Devoir titrait ce matin «200 000 fois "entendez-nous!"», La Presse y allait de «100 000 NON!».
Le PDG de l'Agence France-Presse (AFP), Emmanuel Hoog, était à Montréal aujourd'hui pour présenter les défis de son agence et le chemin qu'elle entend prendre pour y faire face. Extraits choisis de son allocution en tweets.
The journalism program at Cambrian College was among nine programs cut Thursday night, as the board of governors approved a recommendation to suspend them.
The CBC Hamilton news service is a first for the public broadcaster: A stand-alone website with no radio station and no television outlet. Arik Ligeti reports on why CBC decided to try this now, and looks at what it will add to the local media market, which has already seen at least one online-only outlet…
Applications are open to work in the Student Newsroom at the Online News Association's annual conference in San Francisco this September.
With the Magazines Canada Carbon Footprint Compendium, a variety of magazine groups from across Canada have come together to create a document that accepts responsibility for magazines’ carbon footprints, by nature of being print-based, and sets out different ways they can reduce them.
Par Robert Washburn Le Guardian a lancé récemment son approche de journalisme ouvert avec en prime une publicité novatrice et pleine d'esprit pour faire la promotion de la production collaborative de la nouvelle. Des salles de rédactions canadiennes importantes se sont aussi appropriées certains aspects du journalisme collaboratif, mais aucune de ces initiatives n'est aussi complète, aussi profonde,…
Nominations for the 2012 Peter Gzowski Life Literacy Fellowship are now being accepted. The fellowship is intended for a journalist or journalism student with an interest in pursuing stories pertaining to adult literacy issues. The successful applicant will receive $3,000 in funding to help in the research and development of a media story in print, broadcast or…