The Star's Public Editor, Kathy English, tries to track down whether one Occupy Toronto protestor used a pseudonym to the newspaper's reporters, without it being revealed to readers. Then, he tells her that many of his fellow protestors did the same. Were Toronto reporters duped or did they knowingly use pseudonyms – but perhaps duping…
Let the year-end best-of lists begin. The Canadian Press wants to know who the public thinks is the Newsmaker of the Year.
Joshua Benton wrote a piece for the Nieman Journalism Lab last week that is an interesting addition to the conversation surrounding Jim Romenesko’s departure from Poynter and the ethics of aggregation at large.
On Nov. 22, the CJF hosted a forum, "Freedom (or not) of information in Canada." Rhiannon Russell was there, and speaks to the discussion that Canada's Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, had with journalist Jim Bronskill and lawyer Paul Schabas on the state of freedom of information in our country.
It’s not every day that an investigative journalist finds out they have been unknowingly taken in by the very fraud they are probing. George Knapp found out mid-interview.
Today is National Freelancers Day in the U.K., and journalism.co.uk has compiled a list of 10 things every freelance journalist should know.
We talk to Daniel Tencer, business editor at Huffington Post Canada about the site’s first major investigative project, Mind the Gap, why they’re not piggybacking the Occupy movement, and what we can expect from HuffPo Canada in the future.
ScribbleLive’s Dana Lacey chats with Jeff Jarvis, well-known American journalist, blogger, and professor at CUNY’s j-school.
Until now, Jim Romensko has kept mum over the Poynter-aggregation-attribution uproar. No longer.
Journalists may have a tough time getting RCMP to go off-message thanks to a new protocol that puts officers on a much tighter leash.