Memo: Further details on changes to CBC News
The following memo was sent to CBC staff on March 29, 2017, from Jennifer McGuire, General Manager and Editor in Chief.
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Peter Mansbridge: Debating his legacy
By Charmaine Millaire for The Signal On the crisp winter morning of February 17, 2009, Peter Mansbridge walked off the elevator towards the main doors of the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. Before reaching the doors he noticed his reflection in a full body mirror, and realized he had paired the wrong coloured pants with…
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Reporting from the midst of a drug crisis in BC
By Nicole McCormick In March of 2016, less than a month after learning that the deadly opioid fentanyl had begun wreaking havoc in the streets of Surrey BC, Surrey Now reporter Amy Reid watched as one of her sources almost died in front of her. Jeff, a man she had interviewed three weeks prior, was…
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Here is who was laid off today at the Vancouver Sun and The Province
Postmedia announced plans to layoff 54 staff from the Pacific News Group on March 10.
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Audience engagement efforts aren’t new – they’re just different these days, sociology professor argues
By Jasmine Bala for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre Building audience engagement has long been a newsroom preoccupation, only today it involves Instagram and Facebook, while in the past publishers seduced readers with paper cut-out toys and thrilling accounts of reporters on around-the-world races against time. New research on the history of Sunday newspapers by…
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What’s missing in Canadian journalism?
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor When David Topping set out to take the pulse of Canadian journalism, he was hoping it might help him shape something new—a project, or a product. In early January, Topping, the digital strategy and product manager for Toronto Life, 12:36 and Torontoist, started promoting a survey of his own creation…
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How Durham College is Indigenizing its broadcasting program
By Anna Augusto Rodrigues and Phil Raby What does reconciliation mean to me? This is a question we have reflected on since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action were announced in 2015. As professors who teach media courses at Durham College, we felt an urgency and responsibility to address the calls, especially number…
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Vice Media reporter must turn over materials to RCMP, appeal court rules
By The Canadian Press A Vice Media reporter must give the RCMP the background materials he used for stories on an accused terrorist, Ontario’s top court affirmed Wednesday. In a case that pitted freedom of the press against the ability of police and prosecutors to do their work, the Ontario Court of Appeal said it…
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Globe and Mail Public Editor: Public Editor: With headlines, the details matter
By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail In these times of political spin, contradictions, obfuscation and, at times, outright lies, readers expect to see not only the articles, but also the headlines, reflect the truth as best they can. A British Columbia reader wrote to me this week calling on The Globe to pay…
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CBC Ombudsman: As always, context is queen
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, William Heavenor, was concerned about the qualifying phrase “even so” in a paragraph about the makeup of the federal firearms advisory committee. Its placement made him suspicious that the writer was implying that the presence of white people on the committee was somehow wrong. In fact, the context…