Job posting: Editor-in-Chief, J-Source.ca (part-time) The Canadian Journalism Project, a collaboration of journalism schools and organizations currently led by the Canadian Journalism Foundation, seeks an Editor-in-Chief for J-Source.ca, a national online project that provides news, information, resources and commentary about events, issues and challenges in Canadian journalism. J-Source serves as a hub for journalists, journalism…
That’s not to say that other newsrooms don’t have investigative teams that employ data analysts or do regular data-led investigations, but he hasn’t heard of any other newsroom that had a dedicated team of data journalists working full-time on such investigations.
Global News data desk journalist Patrick Cain outlines his favourite five free data journalism tools: Google Fusion tables, NodeXL, Scapetoad, JQuery Data Tables, and Tableau Public.
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when BlackBerry ruled Canadian newsrooms. But when all CBC employees handed in their BlackBerry Torch and Bold phones for shiny, new iPhones and Samsung Galaxies last month, it was yet another nail in the coffin of the Waterloo-based Research in Motion that was once a telecommunications industry leader.…
Even as Postmedia engages in cost cutting measures to make up for advertising revenue shortfall, its employees incurred U.S. and international roaming charges in excess of $100,000, with some individual users racking up bills of $10,000.
With armchair art and theatre critics proliferating online, media cutbacks reducing the number of those who critique for a living, and celebrity news trumping cultural coverage, is the relevance of the traditional art and theatre critic less–or greater–than it once was? This discussion explores the Internet's impact on art criticism, and what it means for…
This journalist-turned-entrepreneur is the chairman of brand and design agency Winkreative and editor-in-chief of Monocle, an ever-expanding global media venture encompassing a magazine, video and audio programming via the web, a biannual newspaper, cafés, and shops both online and on the ground. Join Tyler Brûlé as he talks about Monocle's business model, the state of…
TC Media aurait signifié à 11 journalistes de ses hebdos de quartier de Montréal qu’ils perdaient leur poste, soit la moitié des effectifs. Le syndicat estime que l’entreprise «met la hache dans l’information locale».
While news from Canada of the arrests of two alleged terror suspects made headlines around the world, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith took a swipe at Canada, saying "they're not great at the televison."
The memo doesn’t outline the target savings the newspaper hopes to achieve from the buyouts, but Crawley told staff at a town hall meeting that “If we get 60, I’ll be happy,” The Globe and Mail reported. “That number would represent about 8 per cent of The Globe’s 770 employees,” The Globe said.