By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail A Media Culpa blog was forwarded to me by a reader last night about an issue in Saturday’s Margaret Wente column. The blog by Carol Wainio noted similarities in several passages in the column compared to experts’ writing. Ms. Wainio notes that the introduction in Ms. Wente’s column is similar…
By Paige Kreutzwieser Barb Pacholik, a senior reporter at the Regina Leader-Post, tackled a difficult subject in her piece “Betrayal: What do you do when you discover your friend is a pedophile?” Pacholik received a 2014 Beyond Borders Award for the feature that focused on Jon Walsh and his friend Bradley Chanin. After Walsh found…
By Chris Waddell, Publisher I am pleased to announce the appointment of Patricia W. Elliott as editor-in-chief of J-Source effective June 1, 2016. An assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Regina, Patricia was one of the J-Source originals, involved in the publication’s earliest days, watching it go from a prototype…
By Israr Kasana for New Canadian Media I was confident I was not being naïve or a ninnyhammer when I decided to relocate as a family to North America yet again, this time to Canada. That was a year ago. I had a Master’s degree, lots of national and international journalistic experience – both print and…
By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Lawrence Wilson, thought reproducing the graphic image of a tweet from a politician was like providing free political advertising. He thought it made it too easy for someone to follow the politician. Quoting a tweet is accepted practice and when it’s embedded in a story with lots…
A headline last month that referred to this winter’s weather as “schizophrenic” received an appropriately chilly response from many readers. By Patricia Graham for the Brunswick News A headline last month that referred to this winter’s weather as “schizophrenic” received an appropriately chilly response from many readers. The description was contained in a quote from…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor A frequent lament among Canadian journalists is that we don’t have the same vibrant media culture as our American neighbours. There is no Canadian ProPublica, Knight Foundation, Vox, Mic, Poynter, The Intercept—we could go on. Point being, our media landscape is smaller and is controlled by very few companies. In…
By Duncan Pike A new report from the global press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), describes the tenure of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a “dark age” for journalism in Canada, citing his hermetically-sealed style of government and the shameful state of our access to information system. The report notes that current Prime Minister…
By Donald Teuma-Castelletti When CBC multimedia journalist Olivia Stefanovich stepped off the plane in Attawapiskat, Ont., on Monday, April 11, she had no idea what to expect. She had reported about the Cree reserve before from her home base in Sudbury, Ont., but she had yet to visit it. But over the weekend, 11 young…
Here’s our regular update on the moves, hires and promotions in Canadian journalism for Mar. 24 to Apr. 6. Remember to notify us of any journalism job news on Twitter and with the hashtag #cdnmediamoves. [<a href=”//storify.com/jsource/media-on-the-move-apr-7-to-apr-20″ target=”_blank”>View the story “Media on the Move: Apr. 7 to Apr. 20” on Storify</a>]