Who does the celebrity interview really purpose?
The problem one editor has with the relationship between celebrities and journalists, from GOOD.
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Breaking the ‘robocalls’ story: Maher and McGregor
The Hill Times has a feature with Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher — the two reporters who broke the robocalls story for The Ottawa Citizen and Postmedia, respectively. They discuss how they got the story as well as what the reception has been like and how the story has developed since the original broke on…
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Getting the story in Ghana: A Canadian journalist’s perspective
Gwyneth Dunsford, a Canadian journalist living in Ghana as a JHR Rights Media Radio intern, wrote this account of her frustration with gaining access to sources, re-published here with permission from JHR's Field Notes.
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VIDEO: The story of The Three Little Pigs, as told in modern news: The Guardian
The Guardian uses the story of The Three Little Pigs to demonstrate how it covers the evolution of a story, in this new advertisement.
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Steve Buttry on why linking is good journalism
In response to a Twitter conversation that occurred over the weekend, Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement and Social Media for Digital First Media listed a number of reasons that news organizations should include outbound links.
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Book Review: “Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts, Context, and Critical Frameworks”
Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts and Critical Framework offers the thought-provoking and intriguing entry points to a field undergoing a most fascinating transformation, but students of communication will not get ready-made recipes and solutions for treating the world of media. They will get something more valuable.
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What role does Facebook ‘creeping’ play in news coverage?
What do you think? When a family makes a request after losing a loved one, how should a news organization approach its coverage? Should they respect their wishes, or strive to provide a public snapshot of a life?
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It’s time to kill investigative journalism
In what he calls the "post-newspaper age", Richard Mostyn, former editor of Yukon News, is worried about newspaper-style reporting. That is, the writing of good, old-fashioned, patient and tenacious journalism in an era where quick and easy news breaks 24 hours a day. That is why he says we must drop the moniker "investigative journalism"…
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Good reads: Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher ‘robocalls’ scoop
Postmedia's Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor have quite the scoop — they are reporting that Elections Canada has traced automated phone calls made in an attempt to confuse voters during the last federal election to a firm with Conservative ties.
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Lara Logan on Marie Colvin’s death: ‘I feel guilty. I feel a little bit responsible’
Lara Logan, CBS chief foreign correspondent, appeared on CBS This Morning to speak about Marie Colvin, a foreign reporter for the Sunday Times who was killed yesterday in Syria, and about the challenges foreign reporters face in cases of extreme civil unrest.