Police investigating Vancouver's Stanley Cup riots want media to hand over its footage — and have started to serve warrants, reports the Canadian Press. You can check out the full story, here. In the meantime, let us know: Should media hand over the footage, or fight the warrant? [node:ad]
We talk to Canadian Association of Journalists past president Paul Schneidereit about the association's response to the professionalization issue in Quebec, its vote against creating the title, and why the issue's not dead yet.
Roger Ebert may have lost his speaking voice, but thanks to Alex, a text-to-speech software on Ebert's laptop, there is no reason for the wildly popular film critic to stay silent. Check out his interview with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC's Q to hear Ebert's thoughts on losing his voice, his new memoir, his future plans…
Kevin Newman is making good on his new title.
Hollywood has enjoyed a long romance with journalists and the newsroom; it’s estimated that approximately 2,000 fictional films have been produced in the US with journalists as main and peripheral characters. J-Source's editor-in-chief Janice Neil shares our top 10 picks.
Last year, Maclean's Quebec bureau chief Martin Patriquin wrote a cover story that called Quebec the most corrupt, asking why it seemed to claim most of the nation's political scandals. He was lambasted.
This week, Ipsos Reid executives Darrell Bricker, CEO, and John Wright, senior VP, penned an open letter to journalists demanding they do a better job reporting polls during election time.
No one likes covering a suicide. The publicity may add pain at a time of grieving, and can, experts fear, push other suicidal people over the age. But for Stephen J. A. Ward, the question is how — not whether — painful facts should be reported.
As Tim Knight puts it on The Mark, he and Kai Nagata have some differences: "We're separated by 50 years and 2,000 miles." But also similarities: Both are former TV journalists who believe the industry is mortally ailing — and both have recently penned widely read missives on why; Nagata on his blog, Knight on…
Scores of media travelled to Manhattan once news of the 9/11 attacks hit, but many Canadian media were denied access into the city. CP photojournalists Ryan Remiorz and Paul Chiasson made it through — after a police officer at the first checkpoint unthinkingly laid a press credential on Chiasson's larger, French "MEDIAS" press card, covering…