By Esther Enkin for the CBC In a story about conflict at a Montreal community college, the complainant, David Murrell, noted that another media outlet identified the religion of one of the students alleged to be involved. The college has been associated with students accused of attempting to join Islamic State. He thought those details…
By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Mark Wright, thought CBC in New Brunswick was providing free advertising to one of its regular columnists. The author of World of Work broadcast on radio, and had a column online. The online column linked directly to his company. There’s nothing wrong with using experts, but the…
By Kathy English for the Toronto Star Reporting on the tabloid tizzy over a British court order blocking British media from publishing details of a celebrity sex scandal has embroiled the Toronto Star in a global controversy about press freedom in our digital age. The Star received a “cease and desist” letter Tuesday from a…
By Kathy English for the Toronto Star (ICIJ) came calling for Canadian journalists who could put collaboration above competition to investigate a gigantic global data leak, it is not surprising they reached out to the Toronto Star’s Rob Cribb. The award-winning reporter has spent much of the past three years working on investigative “co-productions” that…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Metro Toronto’s newsroom is now a little smaller. Layoffs of seven unionized editorial staff members were announced on Mar. 8, Bob Hepburn, the director of community relations and communications for the Star Media Group, confirmed to J-Source. Seven of those were in editorial roles—five copy editors, one photo editor and…
The following memo was sent to CBC staff on Apr. 15. 2016, from Jennifer McGuire, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief, CBC News and Centres We are pleased to announce that Steve Ladurantaye will join the CBC as Managing Editor of Digital News beginning May 9. Some of you will know Steve from his work with Twitter, where he…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor BuzzFeed Canada news can now come directly to you, on your smartphone. With the launch of the BuzzFeed News app on Mar. 30, readers can customize their news notifications so they get them directly from the BuzzFeed Canada team. “Now we have the ability to push alerts to them,” said…
FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting announced The Dalton Camp Award in 2002 to honour the memory of the late Dalton Camp, a distinguished commentator on Canadian public affairs. The Dalton Camp Award goes to the winner or winners of a juried essay competition on the link between democracy and the media in Canada. This year,…
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Megan Devlin Eric Plummer, editor of the Alberni Valley Times, remembers the day last September when two representatives from Black Press told him his paper was closing. “They came in, I think it was like 4:00 or 4:30,” he said. “I don’t think that we’d…
By Michael Conor McCarthy When Teresa Wright, chief political reporter for Charlottetown’s newspaper The Guardian, covered the news on March 31 that a clinic for women’s reproductive health would be constructed on P.E.I., she considered it an important moment in the island’s history. The choices women make about their bodies should be theirs alone. An…