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S’informer en ligne: pratiques mobiles, valeurs traditionnelles

Colette Brin, Sébastien Charlton Les médias sociaux et les appareils mobiles s’imposent de plus en plus comme outils privilégiés pour s’informer en ligne. Toutefois, au Canada, comme dans plusieurs des 36 pays étudiés pour l’édition 2017 du Digital News Report, une étude du Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism publiée aujourd’hui, les supports traditionnels ou…
The future of ProjetJ

By Christopher Waddell, Publisher We regret to announce that J-Source’s companion publication ProjetJ suspended publication in early May due to a shortfall in funding. Like J-Source, ProjetJ began in 2007 as a collaborative venture initially under the Canadian Journalism Foundation led by journalism faculty at Université Laval, the University of Ottawa and the Université du…
Community media only needs a little to do a lot but even limited funding is disappearing, experts say

By Gregory Furgala for the Local News Conference Small-scale community news outlets can have a meaningful impact and thrive “on a shoestring,” but decreases in funding have left the sector reeling, say community news researchers. Non-profit community media in Canada, which has traditionally relied on a combination of government assistance and private investment, have seen those funds…
Banff Centre to offer inaugural investigative journalism course this fall

By H.G. Watson, Managing Editor Last fall, when Patti Sonntag was invited to an event at the Banff Centre, an arts and culture school nestled in the picturesque Alberta Rockies, she looked around and had a brainwave — she thought there should be investigative trainings there. And now, there will be. In late May, the Banff…
Research shows that local news reporters are working harder than ever – and they’re loving it

By Gregory Furgala for the Local News Conference Across the United States, reporters and editors at local newspapers are working longer hours, in smaller newsrooms and with fewer opportunities for advancement. They’re also optimistic about the future of local news, and their futures in it, a recent study in the Columbia Journalism Review has found.…
New poll finds Canadians still think they’ll get the news even if their local newspaper disappears

By H.G. Watson, Managing Editor Canadians don’t seem too worried about our troubled local media landscape — at least according to a new poll released last Friday. In a survey released on June 16, Abacus Data, a Canadian polling and market research firm, found that 86 per cent of Canadians feel they would still get…
Muslim communities are telling new stories to break old stereotypes, say panelists

By Angela Long for the Local News Conference If you want to learn about the Muslim community, don’t read the news, says the associate editor of The Islamic Monthly. Steven Zhou, who converted to Islam six years ago, said writing about a community takes time and resources. As a result, too many publications produce “surface-level” stories fulfilling…
Researchers urge journalists to examine who gets quoted in news stories

By Abby Plener for the Local News Conference While the value of different sources can be subjective, newsrooms have a responsibility to interrogate their choices surrounding which voices get the most coverage, researchers agreed at a recent conference on local news. Asmaa Malik, assistant professor at the Ryerson School of Journalism, emphasized that in a fast-paced newsroom,…
How 80-year-old Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the CBC, is driving innovation from within

By Tracey Lindeman for Nieman Lab Up in the tower of Radio-Canada‘s Montreal headquarters, overlooking the Jacques-Cartier Bridge and the old Molson brewery, is the nervous system of the 80-year-old national public broadcaster’s digital shift. This particular meeting is centered on chatbots — namely, the chatbots being built by a small team of engineers at Radio-Canada, the…
Journalism, public relations and the author in between

By Erin Leite Game Face: The Media Training Playbook - 19 Cautionary Tales, a self-published book by Toronto public relations consultant and former journalist Bodine Williams, brings two seemingly similar but often clashing professions together. It lays out the dos and don’ts of interviewing for the people answering the questions, and has a lot…