Category / Commentary
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Why being a news reporter is NOT the worst job in the world
With competitive pressure, tight deadlines and zero tolerance of inaccuracy, news reporting was never a low-stress occupation. The proliferation of digital platforms, tools and techniques aren’t making it easier. Nor are the…
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Ezra Levant commentary: Media party = Liberal war room
Watch Sun News Network host Ezra Levant as he gives his analysis of media coverage of the Trudeau ad campaign and the Conservative's attack ads.
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Live blog: Women in Digital Journalism
Join a panel of leading Vancouver news media journalists, featuring Vancouver Sun deputy managing editor Adrienne Tanner, CBC's Theresa Lalonde, Vancouver Observer's editor-in-chief Linda Solomon and managing editor Jenny Uechi, public relations…
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Happy Birthday Sun News Network (and why it might not get another one after the CRTC hearings)
April 18 marks Sun News Network's second birthday, but its days might be numbered. Media blogger Steve Faguy looks at why Sun News Network is unlikely to get its wish for mandatory carriage…
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Matt Gurney: Boston attacks show traditional journalists that Twitter has come of age
The much-maligned Twitter didn’t do much better than conventional sources of hard news, but it wasn’t doing much worse, either, writes National Post columnist Matt Gurney.
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An inside look at the new Postmedia building
Postmedia is set to move into its new corporate HQ in Toronto on Dec. 1 this year. J-Source has an inside look at the construction and artist renderings of the new space…
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Live blog of the Atkinson 2013 lecture: Toronto Star’s Michelle Shephard on reporting about security
Join us at 1 p.m. on April 11 to hear Toronto Star security reporter Michelle Shepard talk about reporting from home and abroad on terrorism at the 2013 Atkinson Lecture at Ryerson University.
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What happens when journalists become the story? A Q&A with science writer Mark Lynas
If science journalists find themselves covering an issue from one way and then seeing things from a different perspective, what should they do? Where do you draw the line between activism and journalism? Agricultural…
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The heartwrenching images of Annette Funicello’s illness: How CTV’s W5 covered the story
How much information should journalists tell the public about the gritty existence of once-public people who now face a long disability or death? How carefully do you examine the motivations of a…
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Pondering journalism’s future in a digital universe
Kelly Toughill, J-Source business of journalism editor and director of the University King’s College’s School of Journalism, has been thinking a lot about the future of journalism in an increasingly digital universe.…