By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Global News wants to launch a 24-hour national-local news hybrid channel it hopes it will make its local channels more profitable. Its parent company, Shaw Media, has applied for a single licence coast-to-coast with the CRTC, but with 28 local community feeds. It’s never been done before, but if approved,…
In his latest column, The Unknowable Country columnist Sean Holman highlights why Canadians need more awareness of just how much is being hidden from them, and spotlighting examples of government secrecy with the hashtag #cdnfoi.
By Greg Reaume, Managing Editor of CBC News Coverage It’s been 10 months since the first cases of Ebola surfaced in the West African country of Guinea. Since then the disease has spread rapidly. From village to village, region to region, nation to nation creating a public health challenge of monumental proportions. And yet few Western journalists have…
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Justin Giovannetti, who currently works for The Globe and Mail’s Vancouver bureau, is moving to the Edmonton bureau. Giovannetti previously worked as a web reporter for CTV and a weekend editor for OpenFile in Montreal, according to his LinkedIn profile.
By Joyita Sengupta In his new book, Irving vs. Irving, Jacques Poitras gives an inside look at a family that has built an empire and is one of the richest families in Canada. Their monopoly in New Brunswick extends past oil and logging and into the province’s media. The Irvings own almost all of New Brunswick’s English…
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor CBC’s the fifth estate has won an International Emmy in the current affairs category for its reporting into the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh. The documentary, Made in Bangladesh, showed that even after the collapse that left 1,000 garment workers dead, employees were still forced to make clothes in dangerous conditions…
There’s no camera person or producer when Semple hits the scene of a story. He single-handedly sets up, shoots and reports live. Check out this CBC video for a behind-the-scenes look.
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Reid Fiest is the new Alberta correspondent for Global National. He is currently a reporter and co-anchor of the Weekend Morning News with Global Calgary, and he has also filled in on Global National. Fiest will take over for Francis Silvaggio, who left Global in September and is now the senior communications adviser at…
By Gemma Richardson With Robin Williams’ death in August, how to cover suicide was once again topical—albeit briefly—in the media. Several weeks later, Suicide Prevention Day on Sept. 10 generated additional coverage. The sheer number of stories about the actor’s death fueled two common misconceptions: journalists only talk about suicide in an over-the-top, sensational manner,…
By Susan Newhook At the opening keynote of the Online News Association conference in Chicago last week, I found a seat next to one of this year’s 900 first-timers. He was a little daunted by the schedule and asked me, an ONA sophomore, for advice. “Don’t worry about getting to everything that looks interesting,” I told him. “You can’t,…