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RueMasson.com vit sa première campagne municipale

L’équipe du média en ligne, hyperlocal, indépendant et bénévole, qui vise à informer les citoyens du Vieux-Rosemont à Montréal, redouble d’efforts en vue du scrutin du 3 novembre prochain. Et comble ainsi…
Health Journalism: Balanced but Broken

Trudy Lieberman, past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists in the U.S., will be visiting Winnipeg as a Fulbright Scholar and guest of EvidenceNetwork.ca. Lieberman currently covers health and the…
Mathew Ingram: Online Journalism: What’s different? What’s the same?

The world of journalism and news media is dramatically different than it was five years ago. Today, digital media and traditional media simultaneously compete and feed one another in an evolving hybrid…
La Presse+ a six mois

Alors que le président et éditeur de La Presse, Guy Crevier, vante des résultats qu’il juge promoteurs sur tous les forums nationaux et internationaux, certains commentateurs s’interrogent toujours sur la pertinence du…
Opinion: Community newspapers do more than fluffy, “happy news” stories

Frustrated with the prevailing opinion of community newspapers—that they don’t necessarily report on hard news, rely on fluff and are a mediocre place to work—Kamloops This Week journalist Dale Bass argues that…
Rabble fires editor Derrick O’Keefe amidst controversy

Online magazine Rabble.ca has laid off editor Derrick O’Keefe. The news was first announced on O’Keefe’s Twitter feed and sparked the resignation of one of his colleagues.
Ward’s Words: Putting transparency in its place

In journalism, transparency is fashionable. Journalists who reject objectivity say: “I am biased but I am honest and transparent." But hyping transparency distorts media ethics in several ways; it wrongly implies that…
CBC ombudsman: No bias in Zimmerman trial headline

CBC Ombudsman Esther Enkin responds to a complainant who thought referring to the prosecution's case and not the defence's showed bias in CBC News coverage of the George Zimmerman trial in the…
Star public editor: Star need not take all responsibility for perception gap

Toronto Star public editor Kathy English explains the dfiference in perception between journalists and the public when it comes to the paper's reporting about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
Globe public editor: The Fords, the facts and the use of anonymous sources

Following the Ontario Press Council's dismissal of complaints against The Globe and Mail for its coverage of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, public editor Sylvia Stead provides the backstory on the paper's allegations…

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