Linden MacIntyre, the host of The Fifth Estate, said he felt compelled to retire to stave off the layoffs of younger journalists at CBC who would lose their jobs as part of a $130-million budget cut. Meanwhile, World at Six host Alison Smith said she will retire at the end of June.
Après Marie-Ève Bédard, Sylvain Castonguay et Guillaume Lavallée l’an dernier, c’est au tour d’Isabelle Hachey, grand reporter à La Presse, de figurer parmi les finalistes de l’une des plus prestigieuses récompenses pour un journaliste francophone, le prix Albert-Londres. ProjetJ s’est entretenu avec elle avant son départ pour Bordeaux, en France, où la cérémonie de remise…
Deveau, a reporter for the Financial Post, is leaving the Postmedia newspaper to join Bloomberg as a merger and acquisitions reporter.
Osgoode Hall constitutional law professor Jamie Cameron argues that Tom Flanagan’s public shaming over controversial comments on child pornography was a combination of a professional contrarian’s comeuppance and an irresponsible approach to news-making from some members of the news media.
Arik Ligeti spoke with three people heavily entrenched in Canadian mobile news: Matt Frehner, mobile editor at The Globe and Mail, Jordan Timm, senior producer for tablet at Postmedia, and Joe Ross, vice-president of content at theScore. Each explained strategy, successes and opinions on the mobile news space.
Topping, who was most recently a staff writer at The Grid, is joining Toronto Life magazine as its online executive editor.
Hidden cameras—by their very name—sound surreptitious, deceptive and the opposite of what journalism is supposed to stand for—transparency. But many journalists insist that hidden cameras are a legitimate investigate tool, not a gimmick of “gotcha journalism.” Associate editor Tamara Baluja reports—plus, check out a video on how hidden cameras are used at the CBC.
The Toronto Star union is withdrawing staff bylines and credit lines from Wednesday's print editions to protest what it calls a two-tiered pay scale.
The Toronto Star union is withdrawing staff bylines and credit lines from print editions of Wednesday's newsroom to protest what it calls a two-tiered system of salaries.
Bradshaw, currently the postsecondary education reporter for The Globe and Mail, is filling the media reporter role that has been vacant since Steve Ladurantaye left for Twitter Canada.