How can broadcast news best deliver quality journalism while keeping ever-fragmenting audiences? That's one question among many that Steve Paikin, anchor and senior editor of TVO's The Agenda posed to a panel of broadcast executives at Thursday night's CJF J-Talk: "Keeping You on the Tube: The Mission of Broadcast News." J-Source liveblogged and livestreamed the discussion with Wendy Freeman, president…
Former Toronto Sun editorial page editor Rob Granatstein laments Sun Media’s 500 job cuts, saying they have “crushed local newsrooms.” The Sun, he argues, seems to be “ceding any advantage” it had as a local newspaper to its competitors.
On Nov. 13, a group of election coverage experts gathered in Toronto to discuss how media coverage affects election results. Eric Mark Do attended and recaps here the highlights of the evening.
The Twitterverse had some fun Thursday with a Globe and Mail editorial about a new video game, spawning the hashtag #GlobeEditorial.
Former Toronto Sun editorial page editor and columnist Rob Granatstein was in sole possession of a recording from a 2010 editorial board meeting at which then-Toronto city councillor Rob Ford allegedly made libellous comments. Those remarks are now the subject of a lawsuit. What to do with the recording?
Noted experts in their field, Mathew Ingram and Craig Silverman recently spoke about the issues of trust and transparency in a new media world to a crowd of students and media-interested Haligonians at the University of King's College in Halifax, NS at the 9th Annual Joseph Howe Symposium.
CBC’s Ombudsman ruled that a CBC story on the elimination of non-Christian prison chaplains violated its Journalistic Standards and Practices policy—specifically the section that “calls for accurate presentation of information and the clearest possible production of content”—in its quoting a government official. The story was posted on CBCnews.ca Oct. 4 and had the word “Christian” added to a…
Last night, Canadian newsrooms fervently covered the U.S. election in which Barack Obama claimed victory to lead the country for a second term. Belinda Alzner put together these galleries of what Canadian media websites looked like last night after Obama's win was called, and what newspaper front pages from across the country looked like this…
Ira Glass’ radio storytelling techniques challenge a news media world that is so full of dark stories. Rhiannon Russell writes about putting a face to the famous voice of This American Life at Toronto's Massey Hall.
How should newspapers be labelling advertorials so that it's clear to readers where the content is coming from? This is just one of the questions Jonathan Sas asks after a recent eight-page advertorial spread on the oil sands in The Globe and Mail was labelled differently in print than it was online.