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You don’t know what it’s like

By Lorelei Williams for the Canadian Media Guild What can media do better in reporting on our missing loved ones? Treat our missing women and girls the same as the others. It has been pointed out several times that when a non-Indigenous person goes missing, the media is all over it, but when it comes…
Winner of the Michener Award, Fellowships announced

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor The recipients of the 2015 Michener Award, the 2016 Michener-Deacon Fellowship and the 2016 Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Journalism Education were announced in Ottawa on June 17. The annual awards honour journalism that makes a significant impact on the public good. Société Radio-Canada’s Enquête won the 2015 Michener Award for its piece…
Evan Solomon to host CTV’s ‘Question Period’

By The Canadian Press Evan Solomon will soon be the new host of CTV's Sunday morning political affairs program "Question Period." CTV News says the political journalist will take on the role at the beginning of the program's 46th season in September. He'll replace the Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau chief Robert Fife, who will…
Globe and Mail Public Editor: ‘Worst mass shooting’ in U.S. history

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Media on the Move: June 2 to June 16

Here's our regular update on the moves, hires and promotions in Canadian journalism for June 2 to June 15. Remember to notify us of any journalism job news on Twitter and with the hashtag #cdnmediamoves. [View the story "Media on the Move: June 2 to June 16" on Storify]
Winners of the National Magazine Awards announced

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor The winners of the National Magazine Awards were announced on June 10 in Toronto. Quarterly magazine Maisonneuve was named magazine of the year. Journalist Desmond Cole, writer of “The Skin I’m In” for Toronto Life, was named best new magazine writer. Photographer Marta Iwanek won best new magazine photographer. For…
Crowd-sourced map tracks what’s happening to local news outlets across Canada

Map will track news outlet closures and openings across the country. Continue Reading Crowd-sourced map tracks what’s happening to local news outlets across Canada
CBC Ombudsman: Who said that? The use of paraphrase and direct quotes

By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman The complainant, Greg Hunter, was suspicious of statements attributed to the Syrian government and to Vladimir Putin. He thought it unlikely they had actually said what Carol Off attributed to them in the course of an interview on As It Happens. He questioned the accuracy. There was no violation of…
CBC Ombudsman: Trump and the Republican Party

By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman The complainant, Steve Cherry thought it inappropriate for Neil Macdonald to refer to creationism as superstition in a column he wrote about challenges facing the Republican policy in the face of a Trump candidacy for President. Expressing opinion is prohibited by CBC policy and even this passing reference did not…
What 12 months as a Nieman fellow taught journalist Stephen Maher

By Stephen Maher In September, Joshua Benton, the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, gave a talk about trends in the media business to the incoming Nieman fellows, 23 journalists from around the world spending a year at Harvard. He marked the first slide with an asterix: * Warning: May be depressing.…