The Globe on Postmedia’s digital switch
The Globe and Mail has published an in-depth article on Postmedia's efforts to go digital dubbed "The glitch in Postmedia's digital switch."
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Should journos publicly reveal their salary?
Guardian columnist George Monbiot thinks so — and not just your salary, he writes, but every source of income. Book deals; how much is in your savings accounts; whether you charge rent to tenants — all of it.
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Did The Onion miss the mark with its ‘screams and gunfire’ tweet?
Not everybody thought The Onion's Thursday tweet "Breaking: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building" was very funny.
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Vancouver police serve media warrants; demand riot footage
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]
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Five questions for Paul Schneidereit
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.
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Roger Ebert on CBC’s Q
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…
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From the desk of Kevin Newman, digital evangelist
Kevin Newman is making good on his new title.
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J-Source’s top 10 j-movies
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.
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Vindication for Maclean’s writer who penned Quebec “most corrupt” story
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.
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The media and polls: Are we doing a bad job?
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.