The publishers of the science journal Nature have set up a free “science library and personal learning tool” for students. A scan of it shows that it’s also great for journalists needing to learn the basics of science topics — although, so far, it only focuses on genetics.
A live audio feed is available here for the landmark CRTC hearings on the future of the Internet, which will continue for several weeks from Feb. 17. The Globe and Mail is live-blogging the hearings. An excerpt of the Globe‘s intro…
For your amusement: On-air stumbles can happen to anyone. And sometimes once that word works its way into your brain, you just can’t help repeating it. That appears to be what happened with CNN reporter Zain Verjee.
It’s tough being a business journalist these days, notes David Carr. Kinda like “owning an ice cream parlor where spinach is the only flavor on the menu.”
More in the debate about micropayments, news nightmares and dreams for a better tomorrow. Today’s contestants: social media guru Clay Shirky vs journalist Nicholas Carr.
Chinese journalists who break their government’s reporting rules face being put on a new blacklist, adding to an array of controls used to restrict its domestic media, reported the Guardian. State-owned media in China today reported that the body that controls the sector plans to “establish a database of media professionals with a bad record.”…
Tony Burman, formerly former editor-in-chief of CBC News and now managing director of Al Jazeera English, said Israel’s decision to prohibit foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip during the recent war left the field open to Al Jazeera, which had a massive audience spike. And that, reported the Vancouver Sun’s Doug Ward, “just might…
“They asked me why I was asking about arms. Then they said they wanted me to leave the country:” Reporters Without Borders tells the story of Canadian-Egyptian journalist Heba Aly’s expulsion from Sudan…
Michael Cooke will become the new editor of the Toronto Star on March 1, the paper announced. Cooke replaces…
The Canadian Press has made its Stylebook and Caps and Spelling Caps and Spelling guides available for sale online, for $6.25 per month. The advantage, it says, is a reporter can access it from anywhere in the world. Hmmm. For $75 per year I think I’ll just keep using the dead-tree version that’s beside my…