Kayla Hounsell, a reporter and weekend anchor with CTV Atlantic in Halifax, was named the 2013 RTDNA Canada President’s Fellow. The $3,000 fellowship allows a working journalist to attend a seminar at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. According to her bio, Hounsell joined CTV in 2009. She left Newfoundland to study journalism at…
Lynda Powless launched Turtle Island News in the basement of her home on Six Nations Reserve 19 years, using her last paycheque from CBC to pay for its printing. Since then, the native weekly newspaper has grown to become a leader on reporting aboriginal news. Turtle Island News is nominated for a Canadian Journalism Foundation Award for…
Yellowknife-based Up Here Business was named the professional magazine of the year at the Kenneth R. Wilson Awards presented by the Canadian Business Press. Meanwhile Oilweek, published in Calgary, was named the trade magazine of the year. Here is the complete list of winners presented Tuesday, according to the press release. Best CoverGold: Oilsands Review,…
La tournée de l’AJIQ prend fin cette semaine dans les territoires nordiques du Nunavut. Durant près de deux mois, l’association a écouté les journalistes indépendants partout au Québec: entre espoir et frustration, ils évoquent leur situation et entrevoient des pistes de solution.
Older than the printing press, obituaries are a journalistic and literary form dating back to the ancient Greeks. Nowadays, journalists use social media and video along with more traditional tools such as print, radio and television, but two things remain constant: Obituaries are a combination of biography, reportage and analysis written under deadline pressure; and they…
En trente ans, elle n’a pas atteint son objectif principal, celui d’en finir avec la culture du secret qui règne au sein des organismes publics. C’est le point de vue de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) et de son président Brian Myles, qui a défendu son mémoire devant la commission parlementaire chargée…
The abrupt closing of CityNews Channel on May 30 came at an inopportune time for news consumers in the Greater Toronto Area, because it happened while appetite for local news coverage is stronger than usual, writes Centennial College broadcast journalism professor Ellin Bessner.
Toronto police arrested a Toronto Star reporter, put him in a headlock and handcuffed him for taking pictures after a GO Transit officer was injured in a scuffle at Union Station, the Star reports. Canadian Journalists for Free Expression is calling for an investigation.
Pour ses 40 printemps, le Conseil de presse du Québec (CPQ) s’offre une campagne de pub. Le but, faire connaître l’organisme au grand public et l’inciter à exiger une information de qualité. Avant peut-être, de se lancer véritablement dans le champ de l’éducation aux médias.
Canada’s famous abortion doctor, who died last week, was a masterful subject for journalists, his biographer recalls. Catherine Dunphy argues although he was womanizer who loved many, the most important love affair in his life was between him and media.