Field Notes

CBC Videographer Charlsie Agro was called up from Windsor to work in Toronto this summer. Little did she know she'd be covering one of the biggest stories of the year, the death of NDP leader Jack Layton. What did Agro learn? Market size doesn't matter when it comes to the essential skills of journalism.

Continue Reading Focusing on Jack Layton: How working in smaller markets prepared one reporter to cover one of the biggest stories of the year

David Hedley’s first job at a community newspaper in 1980 dashed any illusions his younger-self had about the glory of work as a journalist. It also taught the future Calgary Herald web producer the importance of multi-tasking — and truth.

Continue Reading My first summer job in news

CTV Health Reporter Karen Owen shares the challenges of covering highly complicated health and science stories within the confines of television news.
Continue Reading Beam me up Scotty: The struggle to cover health and science in daily news

When the Canucks lost the cup, reporters covering the game found themselves in the middle of a riot. Dana Lacey tells us how two Vancouver newsrooms, The Province and Global TV BC, pushed information out to readers, in real time, despite tear gas, press-targeted violence and countless dead batteries.
Continue Reading A riot just broke out. Now what?

In 2009 the story of a bear sighting in Cleveland became world famous. Not because of the bear, but because of the way the story was covered. Field Notes editor Nicole Blanchett Neheli talks to FOX reporter Todd Meany about news satire gone awry — and a story that lives on, online. 
Continue Reading The bear facts: A local story goes viral, and speaks volumes about the state of broadcast news

Global News pulled a first-ever last night when it liveblogged from the frontlines of Afghanistan for an hour.
Continue Reading Global News liveblogs from frontlines of Afghanistan

In 2009 the story of a bear sighting in Cleveland became world famous. Not because of the bear, but because of the way the story was covered. Field Notes editor Nicole Blanchett Neheli talks to FOX reporter Todd Meany about news satire gone awry — and a story that lives on, online. 

Continue Reading The bear facts: A local story goes viral, and speaks volumes about the state of broadcast news

Patrick
Brown is this year’s Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Lifetime
Achievement Award winner. After being selected from more than 50
nominations, he’ll receive the award at tonight’s 14th annual awards
gala. We caught up with the former CBC foreign correspondent to talk
about stories in a quick-hit news environment, what role long-form
broadcasting will play in the future, and, also, the role of foreign
correspondents in a Twitter world.
Continue Reading Five questions for Patrick Brown

Robert MacNeil’s four-decade long journalism career is full of well-deserved accolades. Now, the former NewsHour host will add another to the list. J-Source talks to tonight’s Canadian Journalism Annual Awards Gala Honorary Tribute winner about his return to reporting 15 years after retirement, why, after 50 years, he finally brought his family into the story, and how technology is — and isn’t — changing the way journalists tell stories.
Continue Reading Five questions for Robert MacNeil

From a tip about a former advisor in the PMO’s office to one of the juiciest political scandals of the year. David McKie talks with Paul Barnsley, executive producer of APTN Investigates about the Bruce Carson story. This Q&A is the first in a series of articles J-Source will feature as part of our new content-sharing agreement with Media Magazine.
Continue Reading APTN sharpens its investigative chops