By Meredith Levine I am sitting in my office at Western University with my newly retired TV colleague Cliff Lonsdale, offering him some work. Cliff is notably unexcited by my offer. I don’t blame him. I’m in a mess, a pickle, and I can only afford modest compensation for what is, in effect, a rescue…
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Emily Keeler has been named books editor of the National Post. She replaces Mark Medley, who moved to The Globe and Mail as its books editor in September. According to her LinkedIn profile, Keeler is the editor of Little Brother Magazine and a weekly books columnist at Hazlitt. Her work has been published…
By David Crary, for the Associated Press Over and over, Kathy Gannon has re-lived the decisions that led to the death of her close friend Anja Niedringhaus and her own severe injuries, as they went about their jobs chronicling the story of Afghanistan. Gannon, a veteran Associated Press correspondent, and Niedringhaus, an award-winning AP photographer,…
By Janice Tibbetts A journalism student recently came into my office at Concordia University, musing about leaving the program because of the grim job prospects. She was looking for a lifeline ,some assurance that she might be able to work in the field after graduation and earn enough money to pay off her student debts.…
By Grant Buckler, for Canadian Journalists for Free Expression Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has chosen Ukrainian journalist Oleksiy Matsuka as winner of the 2014 International Press Freedom Award (IPFA). The award will be presented to Matsuka at the 2014 CJFE gala on Dec. 3 in Toronto. Matsuka is a veteran investigative journalist from Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine,…
By Amelia Buchanan and Jenna Guilbeault Mark Anderson, an Ottawa-based freelancer and journalism professor at Algonquin College, died on Oct. 16 of complications from throat cancer. He was 51. News of his death spread quickly and led to an abundance of heartfelt messages on social media from past and present students and colleagues. “Mark Anderson…
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor World editor Lynn McAuley will expand her responsibilities to become associate editor of features. She takes over the role from Alison Uncles, who left the newspaper to join Maclean’s as deputy editor in September. “In this new role, Lynn will be responsible for the overall direction of two of our…
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Kevin Carmichael, a business reporter based in Washington, D.C., left The Globe and Mail on Oct. 15. Carmichael told J-Source in an email that he is moving to India on Monday and will write a weekly column for the Globe from Mumbai. He has also joined the Centre for International…
Newspapers, in their legacy format, represent simplicity in a complicated world, which is the Achilles heel of the mobile environment, writes columnist Joe Banks.
By Jake English, for the International Reporting Bureau at Humber College The shooting in Ottawa caused a ripple effect in coverage drawing much reaction from around the globe. Most of the Canadian newspapers chose to lead with the attack in Ottawa, with the exception of the Winnipeg Free Press, which went with the election of…