A five-week campaign shortens the window for achieving balance in news coverage and the immediacy of digital platforms adds to the challenge. Candidates and their supporters are quick to notice deficiencies, both real and perceived.
New editor-in-chief Anne Marie Owens has announced her management team for the National Post. Traves is joining the National Post as deputy editor while Valois will become the executive producer of digital.
The experience of attending a movie prescreening, for example, is quite different from being a guest on a cruise for example, writes the Globe’s public editor.
Morin, a freelance reporter and editor, is joining the Saskatoon newspaper.
Verma, an editorial board member of The Globe and Mail, has left the newspaper and moved to Doha.
The University of Regina’s School of Journalism is launching a master’s program—the first in the prairie provinces.
TC Media said editor-in-chief Jennifer Reynolds and art director Stephanie White have left Canadian Living but declined to comment on the circumstances of their departures.
In the stories about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s cancer diagnosis, many people are talking about his “fight” and his “battle” against the disease and noting his strong personality. But are these militaristic metaphors really helpful to people across the country who are dealing with various forms of cancer?
Chezzi, formerly the editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Canada, is joining Postmedia Labs as director of project development.
McGrath, a reporter for Queen’s Park Briefing, is leaving to join TVO’s current affairs and documentary team as a digital producer.