The news media went big with photos and stories about Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s marriage a couple of weeks ago.But Anne McNeilly wonders why it was news while the wedding of another cabinet minister and the multi-marriages of a recently appointed Supreme Court judge, are not.
Arthur Brisbane, New York Times public editor, attempts to equate two examples that are, by defintion, vastly different, resulted in blistering backlash from readers and journalists alike today.
Has social media simply become plain old media?
On the second anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, J-Source talked to Nick Kozak about what it was like to document the devastating aftermath as a freelance photojournalist, the business of selling photos and whether or not reporters can (or should) double as photographers.
If you’ve ever doubted your career choice of becoming a journalist, check out this blog post by 17 year-old Jack Davis on The Huffington Post that describes how he fell in journalism and why he believes it is important. In it, the young man describes how he "stumbled" onto this career aspiration and why journalism's…
Global News has posted an extended version of its 2008 news-story-turned-viral-video.
Journalism.co.uk has collected a list of some of the strangest, most hilarious, and legally questionable questions that people tweeted they had been asked during journalism job interviews.
In the wake of the release of the Hollywood adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s first novel of the best-selling Millennium trilogy, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the Columbia Journalism Review has taken a look at what the series exposes and accurately highlights about journalism — its fundamentals, struggles, and realities.
Imagine a publication that produced public-interest journalism with no paywall, no advertisements and no chasing of donors. Sounds crazy, right? The Global Mail in Australia will be doing just that.
On Dec 10 and 17, the Toronto Star ran a full-page ad on the front page of its entertainment section, despite its media kit saying advertising is not available for the front of sections. The surprise? The idea for the positioning came from the Star, not the advertiser