By Errol Salamon for CWA Canada Journalism students and recent graduates are well placed to support Chronicle Herald newsroom workers in Halifax, who have been on strike since Jan. 23. They can collaborate with newspaper workers as Ontario students did during the Peterborough Examiner strike from November 1968 to April 1969. The Peterborough Newspaper Guild (now CWA Canada Local…
By John Delva Blacks make up Montreal’s largest visible minority. According to the 2011 census, 147,100 live in the city. Why, then, are there so few in our media? As far back as the 1930s, black journalists in Montreal have been creating and fighting for space for their voices. Dorothy Williams, strategic development director at…
By Marc Edge And so the Great Canadian Newspaper Roll-up has begun. This was predictable once the Competition Bureau rubber-stamped Postmedia Network’s $316-million takeover of Sun Media last year. As a result, Postmedia now publishes 37.4 per cent of Canadian daily newspaper circulation, accor ding to my calculations. It is in the three westernmost provinces,…
Submissions are now open for six awards presented by the Canadian Journalism Foundation. The awards include the CJF Innovation Award, the CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Lifetime Achievement Award, the CJF Aboriginal Journalism Fellowships, The Landsberg Award and the Greg Clark Award. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 19, 2016. To learn…
. Beginning on the front page of Saturday’s Toronto Star and taking up nearly the entire front page of the business section was a vicious attack on our company. This is just the latest of many attacks from The Toronto Star. The Toronto Star has made several scurrilous claims about our company, its investors and…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Chronicle Herald staff are once again reporting, even though they are still on strike. Local Xpress, a news website entirely run by the journalists, officially went online Jan. 30 after a few teases in the days leading up to its debut. The wait is almost over. It won’t be long…
By Madison Farkas for Canadian Journalists for Free Expression This story was written for Professor Sean Holman at Mount Royal University. It is the latest installment in CJFE’s #ATIreform series, where journalists, public interest researchers and other professionals share their stories about Canada’s Access to Information system. Telegraph-Journal reporter Karissa Donkin’s Right to Information request exposed a lack of proper regulation in…
By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail It has been a bad week for journalism: 200 jobs lost in the broadcast and publishing wings of Rogers Media, and the closing of one of the nation’s oldest daily newspapers. The Guelph Mercury would have celebrated its 150th anniversary along with Canada next year, and its…
