Lloyd Robertson’s last day
"I can scarce believe it's finally happening," writes Lloyd Robertson in an open letter posted to CTV's website.
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The end of silly season
While most of us lament the end of summer, writes Lisa Taylor, there is one thing to cheer: the end of silly season in news. An examination of how endless sunny days + slow news + journalist = lapse in critical thinking.
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WikiLeaks calls NYT drooling, senile and evil
WikiLeaks and The New York Times are perhaps offically no longer BFFs.
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The lede desk: curbing the cliché
Back in the 1990s, Pulitzer Prize winning journo Steve Twomey circulated a memorandum at the San Jose Mercury News from the fictional "Lede Desk". In it: Thirteen rules for curbing the cliché in lede writing.
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Can authors survive if the printed book dies?
The Guardian has an excellently-reasoned (if not extremely depressing) article about the end of books and writers on its website right now — and if you haven't read it yet, you should.
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Licensing journalists? Blame it on the CBC: Ezra Levant
The to-license-or-not-to-license debate is one of the most heated conversations in Canada's journalism world. Part of the anti-license faction? Well, according to Sun Media's Ezra Levant, you can point three fingers of blame: one at Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications Christine St-Pierre, one at report writer Dominique Payette, and one at the CBC.
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Kathy English on Jack Layton and the Star’s “advance obit”
When the Toronto Star learned of Jack Layton's death earlier this week, it took only 20 minutes for the website to publish the news, and a 3,000-word obituary. While that may sound like a super-human feat, it was actually the result of careful advance preparation, writes Star public editor Kathy English in a column published…
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Should journalists get a hospital’s permission before interviewing patients?
When it comes to interviewing patients, should journalists get permission from the hospital's top brass first — even if the source has already agreed? This question was at the heart of a recent Press Complaints Commission (PCC) ruling in the U.K.
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Reporting on Jack Layton: Was it different than reporting on other politicians?
In light of the tremendous outpouring of grief and condolences — both from journalists and not — following Jack Layton's death, J-Source wants to know: Was reporting on Jack Layton different than reporting on other politicians? Comment below, or send us your journalistic memories on Twitter or through email. We'll post them below.
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Ghostwritten op-eds are an unacceptable deception: Dan Gillmor
Ghostwritten op-eds are outright lies that deceive readers, writes Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight centre for digital media entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, in a recent edition of the Guardian.