Earlier this week, we reported that the Toronto Star had chosen to endorse the NDP in Monday night’s election, but that others, such as The Globe and Mail and the National Post, had all chosen the Conservatives. We didn’t include all the papers in our analysis. Lucky for us, Carleton University School of Journalism and…
The Press Complaints Commission in the UK is expected to start regulating reporter and Twitter feeds, according to a recent article in the Guardian.
For those of you who missed it: The trailer has been released for Page One: Inside the New York Times.
Poynter has an interesting story up about Barack Obama and the staging of presidential photos at the White House. As it turns out, Obama and company re-enacted his walk-out and the first 30 seconds of his televised statement on Osama bin Laden’s death for photojournalists. This is, reports Poynter, not uncommon. John Harrington, president of…
Bell Satellite TV viewers saw their link with Sun News Network go dead Tuesday.
Media hear the B.C. NDP leader say big business should pay more taxes and brand him scary, hostile, and a ‘dour Stalinist.’ The Tyee‘s Crawford Kilian asks: What’s going on here?
Canada’s draconian election news ban is bloodied but unbowed – for now. “It’s a 20th century law for a 21st century issue,” wrote Alexandra Samuel and Darren Barefoot before backing down and imposing a three-hour blackout at tweettheresults.ca. In the weeks leading up to the election, Canada’s media ban caught some attention south of the…
Scott Stinson raises an interesting point in today’s National Post column: Showing love to the media doesn’t always mean they’ll heart you back. Throughout his campaign, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has made a deliberate effort of engaging with media far more than his rivals, writes Stinson. Not that it appeared to help him much.
Would you have jumped at the chance to cover the Royal Wedding? For Christie Blatchford, that answer is “not a chance in hell.”
If anything, Karl Peladeau has proven he’s hard to ignore. On Wednesday, Sun Media’s head honcho published 751 words dripping with righteous indignation over his network’s near dupe regarding a bogus Ignatieff-in-fatigues-in-Kuwait photo. By Thursday, the source of the photo, Conservative Party political strategist Patrick Muttart, had been booted from the campaign.