There is no clear universally accepted definition or law of privacy in Canada. As a result, the courts have generally taken the view that a free-standing right to privacy does not in fact exist. For journalists, this has often created confusion about what newsgathering techniques are acceptable, writes J-Source’s law editor Thomas Rose.
Several student newspapers have left the non-profit co-operative Canadian University Press and started an alternative called the National University Wire. Those who left say a combination of high membership fees and little-used or overlapping services were important factors behind their decision.
A Toronto Star investigation found Ontario courts are increasingly denying access to criminal records that legal experts say should be accessible to the media.
Jamais depuis la Commission Bouchard-Taylor en 2007-2008, les médias n’avaient donné autant la parole aux représentants des communautés culturelles, que depuis les premières fuites concernant le projet de Charte des valeurs québécoises. Une visibilité soudaine, révélatrice du peu de place qu’elles occupent en temps normal, tant dans les journaux que sur les plateformes audiovisuelles.
The Boston Marathon bombings and Watertown manhunt challenged real-time reporting and the people who produce live coverage. Between the trauma, mixed reports, faulty tweets, photos rushed to publication and people rushing to find loved ones – how did they discern what's right? And how did they make that decision when mere seconds separated them from…
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Trespassing charges against Alex Consiglio, the Toronto Star reporter arrested in June after photographing a scuffle on a platform at Toronto Union Station, have been dropped, the Star reported Friday.
J-Source earned a nomination for Best Online-Only Article or Series of Articles for its analysis of the so-called Crackgate affair in the Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
Selon le classement hebdomadaire d’Influence Communication, le débat autour de la Charte des valeurs que tente d’imposer le gouvernement péquiste a occupé près de 10% de l’espace médiatique québécois la semaine dernière. Preuve de la sensibilité du sujet, les différents articles ont généré de nombreux commentaires, parfois teintés de racisme et de xénophobie.
TC Media has withdrawn from the Halifax market with the sale of its three community newspapers to the Chronicle-Herald.