By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Bloomberg Canada’s Ottawa reporter Andrew Mayeda is moving to the Washington, D.C., bureau. Mayeda tweeted he will cover the International Monetary Fund, World Blank and global economics for Bloomberg News. According to his LinkedIn profile, Mayeda previously worked for Postmedia News and the Ottawa Citizen. His replacement in Ottawa has not yet…
Toronto Star photographer Randy Risling shows many ways that photographers can ruin the intimate moments of a wedding. Video courtesy of Toronto Star. More photojournalism videos can be found here.
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Letters to the editor are a dying breed. Although a long-standing tradition at newspapers, they just don’t jibe with today’s media landscape of immediacy and urgency. The Winnipeg Free Press is changing that by bringing social media to snail mail. J-Source interviewed editor-in-chief Paul Samyn about the new direction of the paper’s…
Business journalist Karen Ho tweeted about how the media industry treats young journalists poorly and what she sees as the unfortunate ramifications of such treatment.
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Global News wants to launch a 24-hour national-local news hybrid channel it hopes it will make its local channels more profitable. Its parent company, Shaw Media, has applied for a single licence coast-to-coast with the CRTC, but with 28 local community feeds. It’s never been done before, but if approved,…
In his latest column, The Unknowable Country columnist Sean Holman highlights why Canadians need more awareness of just how much is being hidden from them, and spotlighting examples of government secrecy with the hashtag #cdnfoi.
By Greg Reaume, Managing Editor of CBC News Coverage It’s been 10 months since the first cases of Ebola surfaced in the West African country of Guinea. Since then the disease has spread rapidly. From village to village, region to region, nation to nation creating a public health challenge of monumental proportions. And yet few Western journalists have…
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Justin Giovannetti, who currently works for The Globe and Mail’s Vancouver bureau, is moving to the Edmonton bureau. Giovannetti previously worked as a web reporter for CTV and a weekend editor for OpenFile in Montreal, according to his LinkedIn profile.
By Joyita Sengupta In his new book, Irving vs. Irving, Jacques Poitras gives an inside look at a family that has built an empire and is one of the richest families in Canada. Their monopoly in New Brunswick extends past oil and logging and into the province’s media. The Irvings own almost all of New Brunswick’s English…
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor CBC’s the fifth estate has won an International Emmy in the current affairs category for its reporting into the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh. The documentary, Made in Bangladesh, showed that even after the collapse that left 1,000 garment workers dead, employees were still forced to make clothes in dangerous conditions…