Style can be a sticky thing, and this one’s been bugging us: Once an election has been called, should media refer still refer to the Prime Minister by his (or her) title? Or should we drop it and refer to the person simply as “X” Party Leader? We asked former CBC grammar guru Judy Maddren…
Alright so a week has passed since the debut of Sun TV. While the network is still taking its first steps and there are, surely, more things to come, we still want to know: What did everyone think of the first seven days? Well, one thing’s for sure: few left their screens overly impressed, or…
On April 15, the London Free Press launched an initiative to help the community better interact with the paper. Citizens can now contact the paper with ideas, and the paper will provide an editor to help bring those stories to print — with the citizen’s byline. Innovative, right? Only if you plan on squelching the…
Disclosure: This radio clip link is for a show done by my friend, Sean Holman, and includes my husband, Alan Bass, who has been researching and speaking on professionalizing journalism for several years. Given the recent move in Quebec and some chatter on the Canadian Association of Journalists list, I thought some people might be…
Jay Rosen’s been teaching journalism for a quarter-century and, recognizing the milestone, he’s written about what he thinks he knows about it. Given the changes that have occurred in the past 25 years, his observations are interesting.
Salon has an interesting article on war-zone journalism, one that is unfortunately apropos today.
Just when you thought you could finally get NOW magazine’s nearly-naked picture of Rob Ford out of your head, it’s back. A couple weeks ago, NOW magazine received national and international attention after someone at Toronto City Hall’s custodial services department allegedly ordered all copies of the publication’s March 31-April 6 edition — featuring a…
At least one Canadian news organization has a new policy moderating how its journalists interact (or don’t) on online comment sections. But what about news readers? Racist, classist and sexist remarks are increasingly dominating spaces once intended to foster discussion and communication amongst fellow readers — never mind the nasty remarks made about reporters. Is…
We at J-Source are always on the look-out for new and interesting ways of covering big stories and events. Thanks to the increasing social media storm surrounding the so-crowned Twitter election, we’ve found plenty of neat stuff. Last week, we talked to David Skok over at Globalnews.ca about his site’s debate video/Twitter analyzer mash-up. This…
With less than five hours left until launch time, Sun Media’s David Akin is none too happy about some of the coverage surrounding this evening’s Sun News Network debut. Considering both Akin’s involvement in the network and the fact that many news organizations have gleefully repeated Sun TV criticisms, this is, perhaps, not very surprising.…