What happens when serious journalists moonlight as celebrities? And what does it mean for the industry's credibility? These questions are at the heart of a recent Postmedia feature by Misty Harris published in the Vancouver Sun.
In Second Wounds, media scholar Carrie Rentschler traces the emergence of victim advocacy in the U.S. from the sixties until the present. Rentschler also explores the relationship the victim’s rights movement and the media, describing how U.S. reporting on crime has been influenced by the movement’s idea of the “secondary victim” as well as theories of…
BC Business writer Lucy Hyslop recently sat down with Vancouver Sun editor Patricia Graham to discuss the challenges of bringing newspapers into the digital age.
In this week's edition of celebrity photos, The Globe and Mail pokes some fun at the stars with a little Occupy Wall Street humour — or it tried to anyway.
J-Source's Lauren McKeon joins the audience in Toronto as APTN's Cheryl McKenzie speaks with warmth, wit, and self-deprecation about the aboriginal network, and her own personal journey.
CBC has waded into the Don Cherry "pukes" controversy, issuing a statement that distances itself from the Hockey Night in Canada star.
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography. Rhiannon Russell asks: Who’s telling the truth and will we ever find out?
Polling became a big issue for media in the recent Ontario campaign thanks to a highly critical letter sent out by Ipsos Reid executives in mid-September, which called other pollsters "hucksters selling methodological snake oil", adding journalists were "no mere dupes in this process." So, now that the results are in, how did pollsters do…
What network called Ontario's election first? No matter what you may normally compare politics to, writes the Toronto Star's Susan Delacourt, on election night, it's a sport.
Earlier this week, the Toronto Sun raised some eyebrows when it didn't endorse Conservative candidate Tim Hudak in the Ontario provincial election.