When a then 25-year-old Ben Peterson launched a global media development organization called Journalists for Human Rights in 2002, he faced his share of critics, skeptics and naysayers for somehow tainting the notion of “objectivity” in journalism. Fast forward 11 years, Journalists for Human Rights has become Canada’s largest media development charity. And as its founder put it, “If…
A reader wondered: “Why does The Globe persist in using the sexist … and outdated term ‘schoolgirls’ in reference to the victims of Paul Bernardo? Public editor Sylvia Stead writes it may be time to find a better description.
Canada’s position in a global ranking of right to information laws has slipped again, though only slightly, dropping to 56th in the annual ratings prepared by the Halifax-based Centre for Law and Democracy and Access Info Europe of Madrid. Canada was not alone, though: Most established democracies with long-standing access to information laws have been…
Une centaine de participants a assisté hier aux états-généraux du journalisme indépendant à l’appel de l’AJIQ, qui célébrait en grande pompe son vingt-cinquième anniversaire. Une journée pour réfléchir à l’avenir de la profession, avec pour fil conducteur, la négociation collective.
Alors que les États-Généraux du journalisme indépendant battent leur plein, l’AJIQ dévoile à l’instant les résultats d’un vaste sondage sur les conditions de travail des pigistes. Un tableau bien sombre qui révèle notamment que leurs revenus sont 30% en dessous de ce qu’ils étaient en 1981. Analyse de données avec Mariève Paradis, présidente de l’AJIQ.
Dans quelques heures, les grandes lignes de ce qui se dégage de la tournée organisée par le média coopératif Ensemble à travers tout le Québec seront dévoilées au participants des États-Généraux du journalisme indépendant organisés par l’AJIQ à l’occasion de son 25e anniversaire. Comment les pigistes à Montréal, Québec, Gaspé ou encore Rouyn-Noranda voient-ils leur…
After discovering just three days shy of its launch date that it did not have the necessary CRTC regulatory licence to broadcast from Saskatoon, the CBC’s new morning show has finally made it to the air five months later.
York University says it has given a notice for libel earlier this week to the Toronto magazine and Katherine Laidlaw, the writer of the article alleging that its campus has become a “hunting ground for sexual predators.”
Officially launched on September 10, Editorially is the latest web-based platform to hit the collaborative writing and editing game. Developed by a team of experts, its ambition is “making it as easy and effective as possible to create and edit written content intended for digital publication.”
A video that allegedly shows the Mayor of Canada’s largest city smoking crack cocaine has generated headlines around the world. News of the video, which was not produced by the journalists, has also raised questions – some of them for the first time in Canada – on the way in which journalists gather and report…