A tweet was sent out from The Globe and Mail’s account promoting an excellent and original on a scenario for what might have happened to the missing Malaysian plane. The tweet attracted criticism from some who complained that it intruded on the grief of the woman pictured and others who objected to the connection between the photo and the…
When the Toronto Star printed the Ontario Press Council decision against the newspaper, we messed up by not indicating the report was written by the press council, writes public editor Kathy English.
Getting a job has always required hustle, grit and persistence. Guarantees? Are you kidding me? There are none. But in the last two decades, more businesses have been turning up the dial on unpaid labour. For most of us, we were either too busy and ambitious to notice what was happening (after all, we got…
When Kamloops Daily News shut down in January, there was the usual shock and disappointment in the B.C. city where it published. And yet, the failing of one community newspaper meant that its competitor, Kamloops This Week, has decided to expand in a big way. KTW associate editor Dale Bass reflects on her newspaper’s growth.…
Drawing from extensive interviews with more than 100 key players in Canadian and British broadcast newsrooms, Rena Bivens’s Digital Currents is rich with insider examples and perspectives on the roadblocks and the rewards of making TV news in the digital age. Concordia University’s Corrine Smith reviews the book.
Journalists today are also marketers and event managers. The marketing—making posters, creating hashtags, publishing social media posts promoting the events, writing press releases, cold-calling potential panel members—involves techniques journalists wouldn’t have thought about using 10 years ago, writes Diana Pereira.
Michael OReilly, president of the Canadian Freelance Union, pays tribute to the trail-blazing freelancer and her legacy.
The rules around internships versus employees are not new in Ontario, but it is a welcome, if not long overdue, turn of events that the Ministry of Labour is finally conducting a proactive enforcement blitz to bring employers that use internships in line with the law, writes Katherine Lapointe.
In the 2014 Atkinson Lecture, David Skok, digital adviser to the editor at the Boston Globe, explains why the death of the homepage is good for digital journalism.
The story is the fact that the plane has disappeared—and what a terrible mismatch that is for the way the news cycle, social media and the human brain work, writes Craig Silverman. There is nothing to train a live camera on, tweet in real-time or crowdsource.