I remember being warned by an assistant city editor once to never even call a story file by anything I wouldn’t want to see entered into evidence in a libel trial. Knowing that, and knowing how journalists have a macabre sense of humour, I found this interesting. Broadcast journalists caught talking about a candidate’s supporters including…
Kirk LaPointe is leaving the Vancouver Sun to become the new CBC ombudsman. Here’s a link where he explains his new job.
Toronto freelance journalist, Nick Fillmore, has looked at the revamped Globe and Mail for a piece he’s written that appears on a website for social change. While he’s found coverage has improved in some areas, he fears its credibility and legacy as the ‘paper of record’ may be damaged due to it’s “apparent lack of…
Thanks to Ivor Shapiro for sending this: Search for Rob Ford on the Globe and Mail‘s web site and you get this link to a column printed in the Saturday Oct 15 Focus section: Rob Ford’s not popular despite being fat. He’s popular because of …Oct 15, 2010“Toronto municipal contender leads with his gut –…
Note: This came in to J-Source and seemed like it should be posted here. Comments, folks? I live in St. Marys, Ontario. One of our newspapers in town is saying some pretty nasty things about our mayor and the current council. It supports the other candidate for mayor. In fact, when he announced his candidacy,…
This is an interesting column on Right to Know Week and the viewpoint that Canadian scientists are muzzled by the government as Kathryn O’Hara asks “what happened to the transparency and accountability promised when the government formed the first of two minority administrations in 2006?”
Very cool video on communicating data, on visualizations and how to make data more accessible.
And are we surprised? A brief posting by British J-techer Roy Greenslade shows they think they’ll work in print but they don’t read it. So, where do they get their news?
Rescuing the Chilean miners has become a “made for TV” event. For some reason, that just seems wrong to me.
Elsewhere on Town Hall is this post about Murray Brewster receiving the Ross munro Media Award, given out by the Conference of Defence Associations and Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute — and the inevitable “wow, there goes his ability to be objective” undercurrent. There’s one comment on it right now, a concise observation by…