Readers of MarketingMag.ca do not believe that a metered paywall system is the way of the future for online news. In fact, they believe that media will always find a way to be free.
Journalism.co.uk has a handy list of things to do (and not to do) when you land an interview for a journalism job. Among them are the basics: Do your research, give examples, ask a few questions (but not too many!) and come with story ideas.
Journalists have joined in on the Shit People Say Internet meme.
The Online Journalism Blog has listed 20 free ebooks on journalism that you can download to your e-reader.
There have been some interesting juxtapositions of images, editorial and advertising since the Costa Concordia ran aground last Friday off the coast of Italy.
In Feeling Canadian, Marusya Bociurkiw tackles the difficult and often frustrating topic of Canadian identity. Bociurkiw’s work yields a wide-ranging book that often strays from its initial objective: to explore Canadian television and national practices from 1995 to 2002.
The pressures of working on the front lines in a news-gathering and producing role have been recognized once again.
Who is fundamentally a journalist? Is journalism a profession? How would a form of regulatory organization influence the practice of journalism? Jean-Sébastien Marier highlights the key ideas debated during a recent round table on the professionalization of journalism at the University of Ottawa.
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.