A number of significant changes were made at the 2013 Canadian University Press national conference and AGM, and many of them were hotly debated, particularly JHM Award submission fees, the creation of the executive director position, the Link's outstanding membership fees and more.
On the rise of custom content, Jonathan Sas asks: Is the increasing presence of content sponsored by advertisers in any news publication a sign that it is figuring out how to survive, or just evidence that it is so close to death that it is cannibalizing its own credibility to buy a bit more time?
Teachers across Ontario are boycotting extracurricular activities—including the supervision of student newspaper production—as a form of protest in the ongoing contract dispute with the government. But students at North Collegiate Toronto Institute will still get their news. Eric Mark Do chats with one of the newspaper's editors-in-chief, Sabina Wex.
Join us from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EST today as we syndicate Digital First Media's live chat with Mark Luckie, manager of journalism and news for Twitter on using social media for storytelling.
L’éthique des journalistes serait influencée par l'entreprise de presse pour laquelle ils travaillent tout comme par la société dans laquelle ils évoluent. Telles sont les conclusions d’une récente étude dirigée par Patrick Lee Plaisance, de l’Université de Syracuse.
Québecor demande au CRTC d'inclure sa chaîne Sun News dans l’abonnement de base des câblodistributeurs. Ses plus critiques s’y opposent, mais d'autres croient qu’il faut lui donner une chance, au nom de la diversité d’opinion.
Les médias font-ils erreur en misant sur le numérique afin d’assurer leur avenir? Dans son édition de janvier, le magazine français XXI lance un véritable pavé dans la mare journalistique avec un manifeste qui dérange.
The Globe and Mail's Book section hasn’t been killed, but there are some changes being made to it.
On Stephen Harper's #dayinthelife: For journalists who don’t often get to ask questions of the Prime Minister, it was interesting to see how they played it. There were the obvious stories and curation about Stanley the cat and all of the homework the PM did at his desk while he ate lunch, but there was also some journalism.
Ron Haggart died in August 2011. His family has put the journalism he produced during the Kingston Pen riot in 1971 together in an ebook, Cool Heads at Kingston Pen, now available from Kobo and Kindle. It tells a detailed and gripping story of the events from the moment prisoners grabbed a guard on the evening of April…