Back in May, Jeffrey Dvorkin, one of the folks who was involved with As It Happens back in the 1990s, wrote in his blog about Barbara Budd’s sudden retirement announcement: “The ostensible reason for Barbara’s dismissal is because the CBC says it wants to replace announcers with journalists.” And so the result of this search…
The Journal Register in Connecticut has opened its community-focused newsroom, a place where that has issued an “invitation to the audience we serve to participate in the newsgathering process and to work with our professional journalists to address the issues facing our communities,” said John Paton, chief executive officer of Journal Register Company.With past issues of the…
The Globe’s John Doyle apparently counts The National’s “At Issue Panel” with regulars such as journalists Andrew Coyne and Chantel Hebert, as among the “most irritating” people on TV. “Blah-blah, yada-yada” is what Doyle seems to hear each Thursday night when Peter Mansbridge and the panel turns Ottawa politics inside and out, or, becomes, a…
I googled Bradley Manning today for news hits and got 9,120. Did the same thing for Julian Assange and got 901,000. Which makes me wonder why the media is so drawn to Assange but, in the entire scope of coverage, Manning — the private many, including the U.S. government — believe released those tens of thousands…
Columbia Journalism Review has posted its top errors and corrections for the year. And the winner is . . .
An article on the class website of the Journalism Program at the University of Miami makes what, at first blush, seems like an obvious point: Journalists who cover traumatic events–fires, accidents, plane crashes, etc.–must always exhibit compassion and sympathy in the course of doing their work. Rather than trying to “stay impartial,” the writer says,…
Apparently this posting on the Canadian Association of Journalists list-serv has prompted more attention than it likely deserves. I’ve been ignoring it, chalking it up to too many people with too much time on their hands over-analyzing and over-parsing the last paragraph in particular, but it was suggested we throw it out for you all…
The New York Times has posted on its site today photographs taken in Afghanistan by Joao Silva right up to when he stepped on a landmine and lost both his legs in the subsequent explosion. There’s a gap when the mine explodes and then, true to his craft, there are the photos he took after…
Armed with a cellphone and enormous courage, “citizen journalists” are reporting on life in North Korea. There are some clips at that site with subtitles and a story on why some of these people are risking their lives to report stories from the country.
So, the consensus about the latest Wikileaks posting is that we Canadians won’t get mad at Obama, even if he said nasty things about us. But some pundits are wondering if it’s journalism, including U.S. columnist Susan Milligan and the National Post’s Lorne Gunter. Without context, it seems to me to be nothing more than…