“In the four and a half years I've been tweeting, I've managed to punch out 8,873 tweets. I try my best to make sure they're accurate, and useful to the 36,000 or so people that follow me. But every now and then, I blow it. And, thankfully, I have a quality control system known as you that lets…
Montreal-based La Presse has launched tablet edition of the French daily today for free, after investing $40 million. At a time of economic restraint, job losses and paywalls at other newspapers to make up advertising revenue shortfall, La Presse is taking a gamble in offering its tablet for free and hiring more than 220 employees, including 120 journalists, to…
April 18 marks Sun News Network's second birthday, but its days might be numbered. Media blogger Steve Faguy looks at why Sun News Network is unlikely to get its wish for mandatory carriage from the CRTC.
C’est sur un véritable changement des habitudes de s’informer que mise La Presse avec sa nouvelle application La Presse+, disponible depuis jeudi matin : le pari que ses lecteurs posséderont tous un iPad sous peu.
When Boston.com buckled under the pressure of the traffic that news of the explosions sent its way, the site redirected its homepage to ScribbleLive, allowing Boston.com to still update their readers in real-time even after the site went down.
La nouvelle application pour tablettes de La Presse sera officiellement lancée jeudi. Le tout sera pensé pour le web, oui, mais tourné et présenté pour le petit écran, chuchote-t-on à l'interne. On estime que les habitudes d’écoute en information migrent de la télévision vers le web, et qu’il s’agit d’une occasion à saisir.
The Knight Fellowships program encourages journalistic innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership. Jawoko’s proposal looks at a portal that facilitates connections and helps incubate ideas among East African journalists, according to the program website.
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador won big last weel at the Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada awards for the Atlantic Region. Peter Cowan won the Dan McArthur award for investigative journalism in radio for his reports on the finances of Peter Penashue's 2011 election campaign. The former Conservative MP has since accused Cowan of treating him unfairly…
Cheques went out earlier in April, although not all contributors have been paid in full yet.
The much-maligned Twitter didn’t do much better than conventional sources of hard news, but it wasn’t doing much worse, either, writes National Post columnist Matt Gurney.