When a journalism student declared he had never bought a physical newspaper, Torstar chair John Honderich shot back: “Is that something you’re proud of?” But as Joy Blenman explains, the student’s statement is a sign of the times: the future of journalism is digital, and the transition has already begun.
Imaginez chatter avec un robot pendant des heures en pensant qu'un être humain se trouve derrière l'écran. Seriez-vous effrayé d'apprendre que vous n'avez pas su faire la différence ? «En 1950, 99 % des participants au test de Turing pouvaient arriver à détecter si leur interlocuteur était humain. Aujourd'hui, la moitié des gens n'arrivent plus à le savoir»…
Appications for AP's 12-week internship program are due soon.
Student journalists from across the country were in Toronto last week for Canadian University Press’ 75th annual national conference, which included Saturday evening’s John H. McDonald Journalism Awards.
Esther Enkin, who began in her new role as CBC Ombudsman on Jan. 1, released her first review last week. In it, she examined CBC Radio’s The Current’s use of satire in its broadcast.
On Wednesday, The Canadian Press published its first Storify on Toronto Maple Leafs' General Manager Brian Burke's firing. Mel Coulson got in touch with Andrew Lundy, CP's new Director of Digital, to ask why CP is doing this and what it means that a wire service is producing curated social media content.
We're talking student journalism this week as The Canadian University Press hostis its 75th national conference (#NASH75) at the Delta Chelsea Hotel in downtown Toronto. J-Source's Belinda Alzner (@belindaalzner) and Eric Mark Do (@ericmarkdo) will be tweeting from the conference Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
As Eric Mark Do explains, when Concordia University’s student newspaper, The Link, makes shocking revelations through investigative work, the impact spreads past campus borders and into the community at large.
The movement that has criticized changes to legislation the federal government has proposed in Bill C-45, better-known as the Idle No More movement, took a while before it became the topic of mainstream political panels and front-page stories. But over the course of the movement and with her well-publicized hunger strike, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence became a…
Kai Benson explains why the federal government's attempt to muzzle its scientists hinders public knowledge and damages science discourse in Canada in the latest issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.