Public editor: Star readers don’t want profanity spelled out
Toronto Star readers have spoken: The majority do not want to see swear words spelled out or more profanity in print, writes public editor Kathy English.
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Book Review: Killer Weed argues the news media have stoked “grow-op mania”
Ian Mulgrew, a Vancouver Sun columnist and author of a book about Canada’s marijuana industry, reviews Killer Weed, a new academic study that claims newspapers in Vancouver and Victoria have uncritically hyped public health and safety concerns related to marijuana grow-ops.
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Has social media finally killed the press release?
If a brand can build its own audience on its own digital channels, one could argue it might not need a press release or even a journalist, writes Chris Hogg.
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The market devaluation of digital journalism at Toronto Star
A digital journalist is still a journalist and must be doing the same work as a print journalist, writes Wayne MacPhail. So why is one employee paid less just because his or her work doesn't end up as ink on cellulose?
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Chronicle Herald tries hyperlocal news with launch of new Cape Breton paper
Mark Lever, and the company he works for, sees the future of the newspapers as hyperlocal. That is this kind of entrepreneurial thinking that will revolutionize and revitalize news media, says innovation editor Rob Washburn.
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Why a journalist’s words matter when reporting on mental health
Mindset, a guide for reporting on mental health, will be launched on April 24 in Toronto by the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma and CBC News. The former’s president, Cliff Lonsdale, explains why journalists should take as much care selecting words and considering hidden baggage in mental health reporting as in anything else…
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The importance of public broadcasting
CBC matters most in the small places, the ones many Canadians will never visit. It is a window on the outside world for those who live there. And a way of drawing back the curtain for those who don’t, so they can peer inside. Ahead of a CBC employee townhall to discuss budgets, reporter Jody…
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The Golden Age of Journalism? You’ve got to be kidding!
Henry Blodget recently wrote that journalism has entered a golden age. Paul Benedetti and James R. Compton argue against the notion, calling it a baseless and insidious idea that masks the colonization of a once proudly skeptical profession with promotional hucksterism and reinforces a false notion that all is well.
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CBC ombdusman: Viewers can draw their own conclusions
The documentary, Silence of the Labs, provided many relevant facts and presented alternative perspectives about an important public policy issue so that Canadians could draw their own conclusions, writes CBC ombudsman Esther Enkin.
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Why context is crucial in photojournalism
Photos do tell the truth, but not always the entire truth or the circumstances leading up to that photographed moment. That’s why photojournalists and editors have an obligation to contextualize photos better, writes Mount Royal University journalism student Jesse Yardley.