When the CBC's Fifth Estate came calling for information on Canada's hospitals, the provinces responded with a collective "no." Data journalism editor Fred Vallance-Jones says it happens all too often.
CBC explains how it got the tax haven series, which all began when almost a year ago when Frederic Zalac, a reporter for the Radio-Canada program Enquete and our Special Investigations Unit, was approached by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Toronto Star’s Jennifer Pagliaro and Lethbridge Herald’s Katie May have been selected as the two recipients of the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Canadian Journalists, in the over 25,000 and under 25,000 circulation classes respectively. They will be awarded the Goff Penny Memorial Prizes at the World Press Freedom Day luncheon on May 3 during the INK+BEYOND newspaper conference…
Join us at 1 p.m. on April 11 to hear Toronto Star security reporter Michelle Shepard talk about reporting from home and abroad on terrorism at the 2013 Atkinson Lecture at Ryerson University.
Retour sur les quelques jours qui ont précédé la démission de Guy Hébert de son poste de directeur général de la Ville de Montréal, sur fond de manipulation et de querelle entre les deux plus grands quotidiens québécois, La Presse et le Journal de Montréal.
The Lance, the University of Windsor campus paper, received a temporary reprieve from the student government to print the final edition of the semester. The 85-year-old newspaper was ordered to end all its print productions immediately, following a decision made last Wednesday by the University of Windsor Student Alliance. But following student outcry and a Facebook campaign to…
If science journalists find themselves covering an issue from one way and then seeing things from a different perspective, what should they do? Where do you draw the line between activism and journalism? Agricultural journalism editor Mary Baxter interviewed British journalist Mark Lynas, who recanted his views on genetically modified organisms.
Canadian journalist Ali Velshi has left his position as CNN’s chief business correspondent to join Al Jazeera America. Wab Kinew also tweeted Tuesday that he will be joining Al Jazeera as a correspondent for the documentary program "Fault Lines."
The 66-year-old chairman of the Postmedia Network Inc. board, who often went by “Ron,” passed away suddenly Monday in Florida.
CBC television host George Stroumboulopoulos will be hosting a brand new show on CNN this summer. The weekly, one-hour series will air 10 episodes on Friday nights. But fear not, Strombo will be back on CBC in the fall.