Journalists are trained to be observers; to not get personally invested in their stories. But what if, faced with extreme circumstances, you overstep your boundaries as a reporter and lend a helping hand to those less fortunate? Rhiannon Russell explains why journalists sometimes feel compelled to do more than just write stories and why this advocacy journalism…
Was the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Code of Ethics the most appropriate to use in evaluating Sun News' Krista Erickson's interview last summer with contemporary dancer Margie Gillis? Marc-François Bernier isn't so sure, and asks whether the Council's decision would have been different if a more journalism-specific code of ethics had been used.
Rob Wipond has written a dizzying account trying to get to the bottom of privacy issues surrounding ALPR technology for the Feb 2012 issue of Victoria-based magazine FOCUS.
The Calgary Herald is creating a giant digital rolodex with its new Be a Source program. We asked digital engagement editor Tom Babin to tell us about the new program that turns its readers into sources and how it can help journalists.
Ezra Levant and Jennifer Ditchburn had a bit of a spat on Twitter yesterday after it was reported by Toronto Sun's David Akin that the Sun News producer who proposed "faking" a citizenship ceremony last October now works for CBC, where Ditchburn occassionally appears as a panelist.
What if social media didn’t begin in the age of the Internet, but instead, hundreds of years earlier?
What’s the number one issue facing Canadian media? According to Peter Steven, it’s diversity. Steven, a professor of media studies at Sheridan College in Ontario, has written a guide to Canadian media for Fernwood Publishing’s pocketbook series About Canada. Marc Edge reviews it for J-Source.
University of British Columbia School of Journalism director Peter Klein has written an open letter to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as published today by The Globe and Mail. In it, he lambasts Orbán for changes to the Hungarian constitution he recently made, which effectively squelch free press
In the wake of the controversy that has surrounded Gilles Duceppe over the past week, there has emerged a media war as well.
In Canadian media, is it just the same small group of journalists and news organizations who consume one another’s tweets and the content that said tweets contain? Or is the influence broader than that?