Here is who was laid off today at the Vancouver Sun and The Province
Postmedia announced plans to layoff 54 staff from the Pacific News Group on March 10.
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Audience engagement efforts aren’t new – they’re just different these days, sociology professor argues
By Jasmine Bala for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre Building audience engagement has long been a newsroom preoccupation, only today it involves Instagram and Facebook, while in the past publishers seduced readers with paper cut-out toys and thrilling accounts of reporters on around-the-world races against time. New research on the history of Sunday newspapers by…
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What’s missing in Canadian journalism?
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor When David Topping set out to take the pulse of Canadian journalism, he was hoping it might help him shape something new—a project, or a product. In early January, Topping, the digital strategy and product manager for Toronto Life, 12:36 and Torontoist, started promoting a survey of his own creation…
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How Durham College is Indigenizing its broadcasting program
By Anna Augusto Rodrigues and Phil Raby What does reconciliation mean to me? This is a question we have reflected on since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action were announced in 2015. As professors who teach media courses at Durham College, we felt an urgency and responsibility to address the calls, especially number…
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Vice Media reporter must turn over materials to RCMP, appeal court rules
By The Canadian Press A Vice Media reporter must give the RCMP the background materials he used for stories on an accused terrorist, Ontario’s top court affirmed Wednesday. In a case that pitted freedom of the press against the ability of police and prosecutors to do their work, the Ontario Court of Appeal said it…
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Globe and Mail Public Editor: Public Editor: With headlines, the details matter
By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail In these times of political spin, contradictions, obfuscation and, at times, outright lies, readers expect to see not only the articles, but also the headlines, reflect the truth as best they can. A British Columbia reader wrote to me this week calling on The Globe to pay…
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Journalism Jobs: March 22
Here’s our regular listing of Canadian journalism job opportunities.
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CBC Ombudsman: As always, context is queen
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, William Heavenor, was concerned about the qualifying phrase “even so” in a paragraph about the makeup of the federal firearms advisory committee. Its placement made him suspicious that the writer was implying that the presence of white people on the committee was somehow wrong. In fact, the context…
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What do journalists think about journalists?
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Journalists are always hardest on themselves. A new survey of over 1,550 North American journalists has found that over 90 per cent believe the media is “somewhat or much less” trusted by the public compared to three years ago. The State of the Media report, completed by Cision, a Canadian…
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Nominees for National Newspaper Awards announced
Nominees for the 68th annual National Newspaper Awards were announced on March 20. The Globe and Mail once again leads with 19 nominations—the exact amount they had last year. La Presse, Toronto Star, The Canadian Press, Saskatoon StarPhoenix and the Winnipeg Free Press all also have multiple nominations. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony…