Digital First Media live chat with Homicide Watch’s Laura and Chris Amico
Join us from 2 to 3 p.m. EST today for a syndicated Digital First Media live chat with Laura and Chris Amico, the founder/editor and developer behind Homicide Watch.
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Are ebooks the new journalism frontier?
On Wednesday January 30 ONA Toronto hosted a panel discussion about the role of ebooks in the future of journalism from the point of view of news outlets, freelancers and staff journalists.
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Digital First Media live chat with Twitter’s Mark Luckie on social media storytelling
Join us from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EST today as we syndicate Digital First Media's live chat with Mark Luckie, manager of journalism and news for Twitter on using social media for storytelling.
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What we learned from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s #dayinthelife
On Stephen Harper's #dayinthelife: For journalists who don’t often get to ask questions of the Prime Minister, it was interesting to see how they played it. There were the obvious stories and curation about Stanley the cat and all of the homework the PM did at his desk while he ate lunch, but there was also some journalism.
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RECAP: CJF J-Talk on media innovation
What, exactly, does media innovation look like and why do newsrooms need it now? Check out this recap of the CJF J-Talk on media innovation where moderator Marissa Nelson (CBC News) spoke with some of the industry's brightest minds in Zach Seward (Quartz), Michael DeMonte (ScribbleLive) and David Skok (GlobalNews.ca/Nieman Fellow) to find out what…
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Finding a way forward for Canadian press accountability
With the provincial structure of press councils perhaps soon becoming a thing of the past, what is the way forward for press accountability? Belinda Alzner looks at Canada's existing mechanisms through a theoretical lens.
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Book review: Canadian Television: Text and Context
Canadian Television: Text and Context is an "exemplary collection" of essays and is about both the substance and practice of television studies, and offers myriad solutions to some of the above challenges facing those studying the medium. Those in the field will find it rewarding and those teaching will find it to be a useful teaching tool.…
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Government statement singles out ‘controversial reporter’
In what has been called an “unusual, if not unprecedented” move, the Prime Minister’s Office and parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister Dean Del Mastro have issued a statement in response to reporting by Stephen Maher in which Maher is referred to as "controversial."
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On current affairs and satire: Esther Enkin’s first review as CBC Ombudsman
Esther Enkin, who began in her new role as CBC Ombudsman on Jan. 1, released her first review last week. In it, she examined CBC Radio’s The Current’s use of satire in its broadcast.
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On The Canadian Press creating its first Storify: ‘Yes, you’ll see more of this’
On Wednesday, The Canadian Press published its first Storify on Toronto Maple Leafs' General Manager Brian Burke's firing. Mel Coulson got in touch with Andrew Lundy, CP's new Director of Digital, to ask why CP is doing this and what it means that a wire service is producing curated social media content.