Vancouver Province reporter Elaine O’Connor has been ordered by the B.C. Supreme Court to reveal her source on a story about a former Liberal MP. Province editor-in-chief Wayne Moriarty said they’ll appeal.
If you watch the news, you’ve probably seen a “look live”. That news-speak term means a reporter who appears to be live in the field, but was taped doing the introduction to their story, or sometimes their throw back to the newsroom or a different type of seemingly live hit, well before the show is…
Tom Gaglardi, owner of the Kamloops Blazers hockey team here in my hometown, has decided the sports editor of the Kamloops Daily News doesn’t get access to anyone on his team until he starts to write more favourably about them. The Daily has responded in print today. And here’s the most recent column by Gregg…
Colin Perkel of The Canadian Press has a masterful piece of journalism in today’s Globe and Mail on the day Michelle Lang and four Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan. Thanks to Tom Hawthorn for pointing it out. (Ed note: The original version of this post credited the story to the Globe, where we found this…
On a recent Today Show, the host was interviewing a woman who lost her home in a California mudslide. It was an tearful exchange, but according to this entry in Dave Cullen’s blog, the interviewer missed an opportunity to show empathy, instead of going after more information. Cullen says a journalist needs to be ready…
There’s a compelling article in the Ryerson Review of Journalism that asks questions we should all be trying to answer about why we as an unchallenged rule immediately decide not to cover a suicide — unless, of course, it’s a “public figure.” Author Liam Casey says: “reporters have a duty to cover all aspects of…
The Toronto Star has also posted its photo faves and, for those of you who don’t have a chance to read the Star, you should check out the quality of work its photographers are doing, too. And for those of you on the East Coast, here’s the same thing from the Vancouver Sun.
Some amazing photographic work in this slideshow by the New York Times of some of its best pictures of 2010. Some truly powerful pictorial statements.
Globe and Mail columnist Norman Spector takes a swipe at major media in his blog with a posting about his G&M column on Stephen and Laureen Harper being pulled from the website. An excerpt: “For my part, after considering these and a couple of other suggestions forwarded to me privately, I’m still of the opinion…
In Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories, correspondent Anna Badkhen writes about conflict and food, and how sharing a meal in “the most forlorn and violent places on earth” can be a reassertion of life itself. A review by Claude Adams.