What have we learned from Newtown?
After the frenzied scramble comes, in time, self-examination. It needs to be the other way round, says Cliff Lonsdale, president of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.
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The future of community news is in capturing the local
Despite Sun Media shutting down a number of its weekly titles recently, community news experts and editors aren’t buying the idea that print is dead. As Ryan Mallough reports, there may be a number of reasons that print revenues are falling, but a focus on local news isn’t one of them.
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Why shouldn’t newsrooms work with the marketing department?
No journalist would ever suggest that commercial interests should override editorial independence. But as The Canadian Press editor-in-chief Scott White explains, some editorial managers are saying the time has come to reinvent and re-examine everything – including knocking some holes in the metaphorical wall between those who produce content and those who sell it.
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The role of satire—and CBC’s This is That—in a post-humorous world.
What is the role of satire in a world where you regularly double-check real news headlines to make sure its not a story from the Onion?
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Recap: CJFE’s A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting
Join us at 7 p.m. EST when CJFE's Laura Tribe will be liveblogging the organization's annual gala: A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting.
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Cape Cod Times fires writer after serial source fabrication discovered
In journalism news south of the border, on Tuesday, Cape Cod Times publisher Peter Meyer and editor Paul Pronovost revealed that 31-year veteran writer Karen Jeffrey had fabricated at least 69 sources in 34 stories and was no longer working for the Massachusetts newspaper.
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Discussion on The Agenda: When it comes to gender representation in media, do we need binders full of women?
When Mitt Romney made his now-infamous “binders full of women” comment during the second U.S. Presidential debate back in October, the Internet latched on. As with most viral things these days, Twitter exploded, a tumblr was quickly created, and memes were born. But as controversial as his comment turned out to be, it prompted TVO’s flagship current…
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Telling the stories that have to be told – those of the most vulnerable
How do you give voice to the voiceless without damaging them in the process? Paula Last reports from the recent CAJ event on interviewing trauma survivors, explaining how journalists can be sensitive when telling their deeply personal stories
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Roundup: Rob Ford, the morning after
Yesterday, we brought you what the Rob Ford decision looked like as it was covered live. Today, the front pages of the morning after.
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TV news is here to stay: J-Talk with Canadian broadcast executives
Television news is here to stay for at least the foreseeable future, but in an age of instant information, networks must provide more than just the scheduled newscast to keep their audience engaged. Eric Mark Do reports from the recent CJF J-Talk, where a panel of Canadian broadcast executives discussed why their networks are still the sources people rely…