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…
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The Grid’s Sue-Ann Levy profile: Twitter fights, hashtag mistakes and the controversial columnist’s less-public side
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.
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Sun Media cuts: Former editor laments, current editor responds
Sun Media is restructuring in a big way – a 500-jobs-cut kind of big way. Former editorial page editor Rob Granatstein says the cuts have “crushed local newsrooms,” but Toronto Sun editor-in-chief James Wallace disagrees, responding that the cuts to editorial are hardly “gutting,” though they aren’t made without pain.
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Sun Media cuts: Toronto Sun editor James Wallace responds
Toronto Sun editor-in-chief James Wallace responds to Rob Granatstein’s lament on Sun Media’s 500 job cuts, saying that that the cuts to editorial are hardly “gutting,” (though they aren’t made without pain) and that Sun’s restructuring comes in response to “an industry caught mid-evolution between old traditions and new realities.”