Globe public editor: The trouble with online surveys
The Globe’s questions are not online polls, but surveys of readers’ views.
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Torontoist editor Hamutal Dotan joins Globe
Hamutal Dotan will join The Globe and Mail as its focus editor and takes over from Julie Traves, who has joined the National Post.
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Live blog: Ivor Tossell on journalism and personal branding
Ivor Tossell is a Toronto-based writer and editor, with a focus on technology, culture, urban affairs, business and politics.
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Public editor: Why does the Star’s choice of best next mayor matter?
The Star is right to take seriously its responsibility to tell you who it supports for public office, writes public editor Kathy English.
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Western planning master’s program with dual focus of journalism and communications
A program that teaches journalism and communications side by side may seem controversial. But Western University says it can see where the media industry is headed and is changing its curriculum to address the increasingly blurred line between journalism and public relations.
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Globe public editor: Why newspapers endorse political candidates
Sylvia Stead responds to readers’ questions about newspaper endorsements.
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Live blog: Glenn Greenwald in conversation with David Walmsley
Open source hero or every government’s worst nightmare? Glenn Greenwald has championed making secret documents part of the daily news. He speaks with David Walmsley, editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail, about power, secrecy and journalism’s role in an era of digital openness.
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CBC ombudsman: The difference between analysis and opinion
Reporters can and should synthesize facts and draw conclusions. In matters of controversy, they are obliged to provide alternate perspectives to that conclusion. – See more at: http://jpress.journalism.ryerson.ca/jsource/page/4/#sthash.ZwU0OfNQ.dpuf
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CBC to lose another 400 jobs by March
The union representing CBC employees said management has informed them the public broadcaster will lose another 400 jobs by March and another 400 the following year.
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Importance of press freedom highlighted in Ottawa shooting
Credit should be given to the police who allowed media to continue to do their jobs in the midst of an active crime scene, as well as the journalists who fervently covered the situation as it unfolded in a dangerous and turbulent environment.