A reader from Alberta asks if he should hold out until he’s in his 30s to land a well-paying journalism gig or if he should jump ship now and move onto another industry that pays better and has more job security. CAJ president Hugo Rodrigues responds to this latest Ask a Mentor question.
Looking back on the life and accomplishments of Western University’s long-time dean of journalism, who started out in the industry as a Canadian Press copy boy.
There are those who say that many of the reasons we need a national, public broadcaster no longer exist because of new technologies. But Jo-Ann Roberts, Canadian Media Guild member and CBC host of All Points West, argues that it is those very technologies, and who controls them, that makes the CBC more important than…
Dan Rowe, coordinator of Humber College’s Bachelor of Journalism program and former Quill & Quire news editor, takes over the book review section.
Journalists often work on stories that interest them, and sometimes that interest can be personal. So how do you separate your story from the story you’re writing? Ishani Nath explains how she wrote an article about oncologists while waiting in her mother’s hospital room as she battled cancer.
Canada enjoyed one of the highest levels of press freedom in the world last year. But how is that measured? Columnist Sean Holman questions why Reporters Without Borders won’t release the questionnaires that determine a country’s level of press freedom.
A reader complained about a photo of Prime Minister Stephen Harper that—at first glance—appears to have been photoshopped. The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead explains.
Edited by Craig Silverman, the founder and editor of Regret the Error, The Verification Handbook contains case studies written by various journalists working in digital media. The book is easy to read, with parts of it resembling a Storify piece with embedded tweets and photos to illustrate points, writes Diana Pereira.
As experience and exposure are now their own form of currency, accepting unpaid work is a logical, rational investment in the hope that it will lead to a paying gig, writes Kathleen Kuehn, a lecturer in media studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
CBC reporter Duncan McCue writes that an elder once told him the only way an Indian would make it on the news is if he or she were one of the 4Ds: drumming, dancing, drunk or dead. While initially dismissing the idea as too simplistic, McCue started looking more closely at aboriginal people in the news, and sure enough those 4Ds sure do…