In framing Nycole Turmel's affiliation with the Bloc as a scandal, writes Nick Van der Graaf, The Globe and Mail revealed the dangerous nationalist underbelly of Canadian politics. This story was originally published in The Mark, and a version of it also appeared on Van der Graaf's blog.
Former Ottawa Senator hockey player Alex Kovalev may have moved on to a two-year contract with the KHL, but he's not done with Ottawa yet. Kovalev gave an interview with Pavel Lysenkov of Sovetsky Sport recently and had plenty to say about Ottawa sports journalists.
So, will Canada's only general interest sports pub look like a Canuck Sports Illustrated, or Maclean's with sports? Neither, new Sportsnet editor Steve Maich tells the Toronto Star.
Freelance journalist David Menzies apparently got the smackdown from "a woman wearing a hijab" last weekend after she was captured in a photo he took at Younge-Dundas Square with his nine-year-old son. Being a journalist, Menzies decided to write about it — in the Toronto Sun.
In today's rapidly changing media environment, many journalism schools are getting creative when it comes to teaching journalism — and no subject is more tricky than ethics. J-Source contributing editor Stephen J.A. Ward asks: Whither objectivity? This article originally appeared on PBS MediaShift.
The scandal at News of the World links back to some very old abuses, writes The Globe and Mail's Neil Reynolds in a recent column. Namely, the risk of factual error when it comes to using anonymous sources. In his article, Reynolds spans the history of anonymous sources, as well as the use of pen…
By now, most of us have probably read Kai Nagata's manifesto against mainstream TV news — "Why I quit my job". We've also probably read (and perhaps contributed to) the dozens of comments praising and slamming the 24-year-old. Indeed, as Joëlle Pouliot writes in The Gazette, one group has been strangely silent: other journalists in…
There is no way Stephen Harper will become embroiled in a Murdoch-style scandal à la British PM David Cameron, according to a series of analysts interviewed in a recent Canadian Press story.
The news biz may be competitive now, writes QMI's Peter Worthington in a recent column, but it's nothing compared to the wars of bygone days. Especially when it comes to the Toronto Star and the now-defunct Telegram.
If you haven't already seen it, check out this video of Colin Myler's final words to News of the World staff. As former NoTW reporter Paul McNamara says in a recent New York Times magazine article: "In the time since the paper’s demise, I must have watched it a dozen times. And every time, I’ve…