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…
Mark Kearney takes a look at The New Journalist — and discovers a resource that was designed for longevity in the fast-changing journo world.
John Honderich opens his Monday column in the Toronto Star with these sage words: "Publishing a newspaper is not only a privilege, it also carries responsibilities."
Broadcast veteran Tim Knight talks about how he lost respect for CBC's flagship news program The National on July 7, 2011. After 30 years of watching, some years of working there, and pages and pages of notes, Knight asks: Has The National lost its journalistic soul?
There's a good chance you didn't make it to the Screen Futures conference in Australia, but UBC journalism prof Alfred Hermida did. After all, the conference featured a talk based on his new co-authored book, Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers. Now, he's offering a write-up of the talk's main points on his…