Global safety recommendations fail to arm freelancers with necessary supports
American report does little to suggest attainable solutions to the industry’s financial woes.
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Desmond Cole on writing about the skin he’s in
When Desmond Cole began writing a Toronto Life feature on the experience of being Black in Toronto, he thought he’d tell the stories of other people—until his editor suggested he tell his own.
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Embracing the journalism-changing potential of smartphones isn’t so crazy
Susan Newhook goes to #MoJoCon, a Dublin conference on mobile journalism, and watches it turn into a online community for discussion and experimentation.
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What lobster fishers can teach us about news consumption
There’s a lesson here when it comes to knowing readers, and how it’s served these days by journalism-based products, legacy and otherwise.
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Postmedia launches new advertising division
The division will produce custom native ad campaigns (i.e., editorial-style advertising) for advertisers and brand clients.
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Tuesday Tabs: WMAs suspended, Japanese censorship and campaign journalism
News about the news for the week of April 28.
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Naomi Klein chronicles Iraqi reconstruction in “Baghdad Year Zero”
Using apocalyptic symbolism and mirrored faiths as narrative structure, this 2004 Harper’s essay is a damning critique of the Bush administration’s attempt to re-shape Iraq.
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The week in FOI news: phone books, firings and food labels
What does polling tell us about how concerned Canadian are about transparency issues? And should the public have a right to know why senior public officials get fired?
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On profiling Anne Marie Owens for the Ryerson Review of Journalism
“Mission Impossible” could have described the challenges facing the new National Post editor-in-chief, Erica Lenti’s profile subject, and the challenge of profiling Owens in the first place.
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Media on the move: April 2015, Part 2
Here’s our regular update on the moves, hires and promotions in Canadian journalism for the end of April.