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 specialist Katharine Sawchuk and moderator Sacha DeVoretz.
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 from the CRTC.
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.
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 at 365 Bloor St. E.
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.
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 journalism editor Mary Baxter interviewed British journalist Mark Lynas, who recanted his views on genetically modified organisms.
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 family member who gives you access to their disabled loved one to promote a cause? How closely should the journalist examine where any…
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. She takes a look at some of the excellent studies that have raised interesting questions about what works and what doesn’t.
Have a question about digital journalism in the world of traditional media? Here's your chance to ask. Panel includes: Mathew Ingram, Senior Writer, GigaOM; Andrew Yates, Senior Producer of Social Media and Community, CBCNews.ca; Terry Weber, Reporter, GlobeandMail.com; Melanie Coulson, Senior Editor, OttawaCitizen.com; Christine Chubb, Reporter/Editor, CityNews.ca.
When the NADbank figures released last month, almost every newspaper headlined with a story of how they're conquering the market in some fashion or another. J-Source grabbed several screenshots of these articles and press releases and created a gallery. Now you can see how journalists create spin.