It ain’t called the Twitter campaign for nothing. If anything can be concluded about last night’s debate, it’s that this election is all about social media. As The Globe and Mail reports, #db8-tagged tweets made up 1 per cent of worldwide Twitter traffic around 8 p.m. EST. “Iggy” trended worldwide. According to one digital based…
Evidence Network is the brain child of University of Manitoba prof Noralou Roos. The newly launched website is designed to provide on-call experts on health policy issues for Canadian journalists, plus a whole slew of other resources. Lauren McKeon reports.
The Toronto Standard kicked off its first publishing week by wading into one of journalism’s most of-the-moment discussions: gender bias in the media. In this case, the lack of female bylines in Canada’s opinion pages.
It may be hard to wrap your mind around, but alas it’s true: Lady Gaga is going to be a journalist. Well, at least for a day.
Aron Winter, the new head coach of the Toronto Football Club, doesn’t think so.
Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley thinks the media is giving Michael Ignatieff a free pass when it comes to reporting potentially scandalous stories.
It’s no easy task launching a new publication. Take Christopher Frey’s tweet this morning: “9 HOURS TIL LAUNCH. @cf_huzun hasn’t had a shower in two days.” No big surprise there, Frey is the editorial director of the Toronto Standard, a new online publication set to launch tonight at 8 p.m.
Ah, what a tease. Many mag writers were surprised and delighted (and in some cases, disappointed) when a nominee list went up on the National Magazine Awards website Wednesday — way ahead of the previously-announced May 2 release date. But, alas, just as congratulatory tweets started flying, the NMA Foundation said the list wasn’t right.
It didn’t take long for Toronto city staffers to react after copies of NOW Magazine’s March 31st edition hit Toronto City Hall newsstands. Staff were sent to scour City of Toronto locations, trashing every copy of the issue featuring the now infamous photoshopped pic of the Mayor. But did NOW also go too far?
Who says Canadians don’t have a sense of humour? It’s now after noon — the generally agreed-to expiry date for all April Fool’s pranks — in all of Canada. In honour of protecting our right to call ourselves a funny nation, J-Source presents a round-up of this year’s Canuck media pranks.