For all the attention to who generates the greatest number of references, perhaps the most important question is not about whether the coverage is equal but whether it fairly explains each party’s platform, writes The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead.
The Ontario Press Council was exercising its right and responsibility in holding the Toronto Star to account for its reporting on Mayor Rob Ford “crack” video, writes the newspaper's public editor Kathy English.
Ryerson professor Joyce Smith writes about her innovation workshop at the university's journalism school, and how even if the project fails, a student who experiments can succeed.
Sujet numéro un au Québec depuis que le ministre Drainville en a enfin dévoilé la teneur mardi, la Charte des valeurs. Pas un chroniqueur qui n’ait sa petite idée sur la question. Mais alors que l’on reproche souvent aux donneurs d’opinion de l’empire Québecor de parler comme un seul homme, c’est au contraire du côté…
CBC wins three heath reporting awards, followed by L’actualité with two awards, from the Canadian Medical Association.
More and more publishers are convinced native advertising will play an important role in whatever new business model for news emerges out of journalism’s current economic crisis, writes J-Source Future of News editor Ira Basen.
It was a hearing, not a trial, but not a good one. The press council's guidelines say "at a hearing, both sides are asked to restate their positions and present any additional submissions considered relevant by the hearing chair." But that didn't happen and there were many issues which the press council did not pursue…
It is certainly not ideal to have been talking about a tape that no CBC reporter had seen, but given the high profile of the people involved, and how the story evolved, the decision to stay with the story was a correct one, writes CBC's Ombudsman Esther Enkin.
The Forum Freelance Fund is sponsored by CBC News and supported by Radio-Canada, CNW and individual donations, and run by the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma. Two of the winners will attend a course at Columbia Journalism School, and one will attend a commercial safety course.
Despite the state of the journalism industry with layoffs, buyouts and dwindling ad sales, there is still hope for finding work after graduation. J-Source speaks with three journalism grads who applied the skills they learned in j-school to non-traditional jobs, along with one journo who made the switch from working in print to the emerging…