Online news start-ups are collaborative, innovative, and full of great journalism — but where’s the money? Former J-Source associate editor Dana Lacey introduces you to the minds behind Canada’s online news start-ups, as they try to answer the biz’s biggest elephant-in-the-room question.
Globe and Mail columnnist Christie Blatchford is none too impressed with Bonnie Porter, the presiding coroner of the Ashley Smith Inquest. In an article published in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, Blatchford writes that “Porter has three decisions to make, all of which in my view could be made in a few minutes by a chimpanzee.”
Posting this just because it speaks to the dedication of the profession: Eighteen of 26 reporters in Joplin lost their homes during the tornado — but kept on reporting. Now, folks are getting together to help them, too.
Arianna Huffington was in Toronto yesterday for the Canada launch of the Huffington Post. So what did she have to say?
Yesterday, we reported that Postmedia has started a metered paywall experiment with two of its papers, the Montreal Gazette and the Victoria Times Colonist. Today, Metro Morning‘s Matt Galloway talked with Postmedia president and CEO Paul Godfrey about the move.
J-Source caught up with GlobalNews.ca managing editor David Skok, who was recently named one of this year’s Nieman Fellowship winners. He is the first Canadian online journalist to win the prestigious year-long fellowship at Harvard University. We talked with Skok about his reaction to the win, how he’ll spend his year of study, and the…
Couldn’t make it to the CAJ conference in Ottawa from May 13-15? We did. Read on for a round-up from some of our favourite sessions, and some great quotes from the weekend’s keynote speakers.
In today’s Globe and Mail, columnist Lawrence Martin asks a worthy question: have we lost our tenacity?
On Wednesday, the online publishing arm of the Atlantic, dubbed the Atlantic Wire, decided to open its online editing process to the public. At first they thought it would be a one-day-only experiment; now it could become a permanent feature.
I confess; reading this article brought tears to my eyes. Which, I suppose makes me a definite journalistic dinosaur, but let me share with you just one paragraph about Charles Kuralt and maybe you’ll read the whole thing and, if your career harkens back to those “good old days,” you might smile at the memories:…