Media reduced traditional Dene practices, and important activities in learning about, and engaging in, decolonization, to simple "arts and crafts", say a group of Dechinta Bush University Centre for Research and Learning students and faculty in an open letter posted on Rabble.
David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. And, in his own words, he recently made a mega "bonehead error".
Phone hacking at News of the World may be latest journo scandal, but it certainly isn't the only one in the industry's history. Check out this article in the Toronto Star for a round-up of journalism scandals. Sure, Janet Cooke, Jayson Blair and others may have embarrassed us all, but there are also fake reports…
On Saturday, J-Source posted a link to (former) CTV Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata's blog post on why he quit his job. By Monday, Nagata's post had gone viral, with reprints from both The Tyee and Rabble. Following the comment explosion from other journos, Nagata wrote a second post, which you can read here.…
Was it too over-the-top? Did otherwise good journalists toss their cred, or do all those eyeball-rollers need to loosen up? And, most importantly, did the Toronto Sun cross the line with Kate's "Marilyn" moment? We wade through thousands of articles so you won't have to.
If you’ve read the CTV opus on why a young reporter quit his job, you need to read Claude Adam’s blog on why the CBC let him go from a part-time writing gig — and it’s all because of a dog.
The National Post‘s Jessica Hume has responded to former CTV Quebec City correspondent Kai Nagata’s recent blog post on why he quit his job. You can check out her article online, but, in short, she’s not impressed: “Though written as a sort of manifesto, the truth is that Nagata’s post exposes little about journalism in…
It’s time for journalists to quit making jokes about Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s weight, writes John Lorinc in today’s Toronto Standard column.
Don’t look to the parliamentary media for guidance on most NDP-related matters, says Chantal Hébert. Or at least, don’t look any time soon. “Not since Bob Rae took power at Queen’s Park two decades ago have so many combed their Rolodexes for solid NDP contacts,” she quips in a recent Toronto Star column.
The Onion made big news yesterday when it announced its first-ever foray into a city outside the U.S. In case you missed it, the satirical magazine, and its pop-culture sister pub, the A.V. club, have teamed up with the Toronto Star to bring a print edition to Toronto, starting this fall.