Halifax-based Frank Magazine fired the majority of its newsroom last week, and then wrote about it in the current issue — with typical Frank sauciness, of course. Associate J-Source editor Lauren McKeon reports on the story behind the decision to print, why the newsroom was gutted, and where Frank goes from here.
“The content farms have taken journalism hackwork to a whole new level.” A highly critical look at factory journalism: online companies like Associated Media and Demand Media that generate enormous quantities of content masquerading as news. Writer Virigina Heffernan of the New York Times also reports on what Google is doing to counteract this phenomenon.
University of British Columbia journalism professor Alfred Hermida leads an interesting discussion on his blog, Reportr.net about journalists, Twitter, and ownership. He asks: When it comes to media branded accounts, who owns the Twitter ID?
Sun columnist Mark Bonokoski has written a response to an earlier column by his Sun colleague, Warren Kinsella, in which Kinsella says the majority of Canadian media is either small- or capital-c conservative. Let’s just say Bonokoski doesn’t agree.
After more than a month, less than a handful of tweets and not much else, fired Rogers Sportsnet on-air host Damian Goddard broke his silence — first on Twitter, and then just about everywhere else.
Over in the UK, the Guardian has published a list of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time. We’re talking way back to 400 BC here (The Histories by Herodotus). Not only does the list span all time, it also spans all genres –including math, travel, religion, and, yes, journalism. Check out the list…
After a year of teaching with the text, J-Source asked two j-school profs what they thought of Robert Cribb, Dean Jobb, David McKie, Fred Vallance-Jones’ second edition of Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter’s Research Guide. Here’s what they had to say.
J-Source reporter Alexandra Bosanac caught up with the former Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford at the paper’s send-off party last week to chat about Blatchford’s move to Postmedia, her time at the Globe and her first column at her new gig.
It turns out the future is looking pretty good, writes Ellin Bessner. Indeed, the eastern regional director for Global News, Mike Omelus, believes there’s never been a better time to be in the biz. If the flurry of broadcast expansions these past two weeks is anything to go by, he could be right.
What’s it like to interview someone with three decades worth of experience asking their own questions? For the answer to this question, check out Jian Ghomeshi’s interview with Hana Gartner on Q. The veteran journo just can’t help herself.