One of the most ambitious and exciting hyperlocal projects in Canada right now is the CBC project “Hyperlocal,” says J-Source Innovation editor Rob Washburn. This five-week project is a call to Canadians to tell stories about the neighbourhoods.
Les premières chroniques contemporaines ont fait leur apparition vers 1920. Au Québec, la popularité de la chronique s'est accélérée à partir de 1985 pour atteindre des sommets avec l'avènement du blogue. En pleine crise, la presse écrite actuelle table sur ce genre pour fidéliser son lectorat. Malgré son rôle unique au sein des médias, la…
The massive journalistic collaboration into an investigation of offshore tax havens signals a watershed moment for global investigative journalism. It is a major achievement for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its partners.
What’s the appropriate level of snark in a tweet? And should you use Twitter as source material? These were just some of the questions up for discussion at two panels last week in Ottawa.
Canadians still prefer the printed version of newspapers, but more of them are increasingly turning towards online to get their news fix. The latest numbers released by NADbank, an organization that measures newspaper readership for 83 newspapers in Canada, shows that almost 80 per cent of Canadians read a daily newspaper every week
Les journalistes citoyens documentent le mondain et l’extraordinaire, fournissent des photos, des vidéos, des textes, sans rémunération. Ils acceptent de faire bénévolement ce qui épuise, jour après jour, les journalistes salariés. Leur contribution laisse perplexe ou est accueillie avec enthousiasme, selon les cas et selon les définitions que l’on donne aux mots « journalisme » et…
Conservative senator Patrick Brazeau claimed to have “played the media” for his April Fool's Day prank in which he announced his resignation over Twitter.
When the NADbank figures released last month, almost every newspaper headlined with a story of how they're conquering the market in some fashion or another. J-Source grabbed several screenshots of these articles and press releases and created a gallery. Now you can see how journalists create spin.
Tessa Sproule is the new Director, Digital at CBC as of April 1. The role is a new one created within the CBC's English Services "Content Office, she told J-Source. "I'm responsible for our digital content offerings across CBC — what/why/how we create content that uses digital tools/platforms etc. to engage with Canadians," Sproule said.…
A journalist in the rural community of Clinton, Ont. claims a local councillor tried to have her banned from covering council meetings, a subject the Ontario Ombudsman deemed illegal for an in camera meeting. If the allegation is true, it would constitute an attack on the Charter-guaranteed right to freedom of the press, says one…