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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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…
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
Yesterday, we brought you what the Rob Ford decision looked like as it was covered live. Today, the front pages of the morning after.
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…
The Grid's cover story this week is a profile of controversial Toronto Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy comes a month after she made what at least one journalist called an attempt to “self-destruct” on Twitter. A self-described “shit disturber,” some other journalists refused to be interviewed about Levy for the Grid feature, and in the past, councillors have literally run away from her.