The Canadian Journalism Foundation has announced the finalists of its Excellence in Journalism Award in the large-media and small-media categories. The five finalists in the large-media category are:CBC News: Special Investigations UnitThe Current – CBC Radio OnePostmedia NewsToronto StarWinnipeg Free Press The five finalists in the small-media category are:CBC New BrunswickCP24Turtle Island NewsThe TyeeVancouver Observer…
The Michener Awards Foundation announced six finalists for meritorious public service journalism. The finalists are: Enquête; The Coast; Postmedia News and Ottawa Citizen; La Presse; Toronto Star; and Vancouver Sun. The winner will be announced on June 18 at the Michener Awards ceremony hosted at Rideau Hall in Ottawa by the David Johnston, the governor general of Canada. Here is…
Le président et éditeur du Vancouver Sun et The Province, Gordon Fisher, a fait parvenir une lettre aux employés, mercredi, annonçant des réductions massives d’effectifs, notamment par le biais d’un programme de départs volontaires.
In a bluntly worded memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Pacific Newspaper Group president and publisher Gordon Fisher said the two newspapers have seen an “alarming and unprecedented revenue declines.” Now staff at the two newspapers are bracing themselves for impending layoffs, the details for which have yet to be released.
By Glen McGregor, for Media Magazine The Conservative government angered environmentalists last fall when it introduced changes to a law that protects lakes and rivers from development. The Navigable Waters Protection Act is one of the oldest statutes in the country The law required federal approval for construction on any body of water large enough to float a canoe. Changes…
By David McKie There has been a lot of distressing talk about the slow but sure death of journalism as we know it. With each passing week, there is news of yet another newspaper scaling back traditional content delivery and migrating much of that content to the Internet. In this space earlier this month, I…
It's time to get even with that publicly funded government, department or agency whose information is kept in the murky shadows.” So says the Canadian Association of Journalists which is accepting nominations for its 13th annual Code of Silence Award recognizing Canada's most secretive publicly funded body. Previous winners include the Harper government, Toronto Police Service,…
The new radio morning show has been in the works for almost five years, ever since CBC undertook a country-wide study looking at underserved markets. But the station will be up against some challenges when it launches April 29, including the retirement of one of its veteran hosts Costa Maragos and a market, that some…
David Common was CBC's lead reporter on the ground in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, and during an unprecedented search for the two suspects. Here in J-Source, he shares his experience following this breaking story that gripped the world.
CBC filed its application for the Waterloo Region service with the CRTC in June 2012, but it did not recieve permission to broadcast. The show had launched just over a month ago and was the first new station the CBC had opened in Ontario in the last 40 years.