The following memo was sent to CBC staff on Apr. 15. 2016, from Jennifer McGuire, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief, CBC News and Centres We are pleased to announce that Steve Ladurantaye will join the CBC as Managing Editor of Digital News beginning May 9. Some of you will know Steve from his work with Twitter, where he…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor BuzzFeed Canada news can now come directly to you, on your smartphone. With the launch of the BuzzFeed News app on Mar. 30, readers can customize their news notifications so they get them directly from the BuzzFeed Canada team. “Now we have the ability to push alerts to them,” said…
FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting announced The Dalton Camp Award in 2002 to honour the memory of the late Dalton Camp, a distinguished commentator on Canadian public affairs. The Dalton Camp Award goes to the winner or winners of a juried essay competition on the link between democracy and the media in Canada. This year,…
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Megan Devlin Eric Plummer, editor of the Alberni Valley Times, remembers the day last September when two representatives from Black Press told him his paper was closing. “They came in, I think it was like 4:00 or 4:30,” he said. “I don’t think that we’d…
By Michael Conor McCarthy When Teresa Wright, chief political reporter for Charlottetown’s newspaper The Guardian, covered the news on March 31 that a clinic for women’s reproductive health would be constructed on P.E.I., she considered it an important moment in the island’s history. The choices women make about their bodies should be theirs alone. An…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Marc Ellison was standing near a village in Tanzania’s Mara Hills, working on a story about a safe house for girls escaping from female genital mutilation, when one of the activists told him there were a couple of girls who wanted to escape right then—and Ellison had a car. “It…
By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Mark Wright, thought CBC in New Brunswick was providing free advertising to one of its regular columnists. The author of World of Work broadcast on radio, and had a column online. The online column linked directly to his company. There’s nothing wrong with using experts, but the…
By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, John Gilmore, thought that a news story about violence in the West Bank was biased because it did not present the Palestinian perspective. He cited the absence of the word “occupied” to describe the territories as one example, and felt the story did not make clear that…
By Matt Sutton A 2015 Access to Information (ATI) request for records related to Canada’s controversial anti-terror law, known as Bill C-51, returned a mass of blacked-out documents. Such redactions are not unusual but the extent raises important questions about the lack of transparency surrounding the Canadian federal government. In April 2015, Anna Mehler Paperny,…
By Eternity Martis On August 4, 2016, two innocent people—Ariela Navarro-Fenoy, 26, and Duvel Hibbert, 23— lost their lives at Muzik nightclub in Toronto when gunfire erupted. Instantly, people speculated that it had something to go with Caribbean Carnival weekend or Drake’s annual OVO Fest; online comment sections blamed black people, Hip-Hop and Jamaican culture…