According to the latest Statistics Canada data, there has been no growth in the ranks of Canadian journalists over the past two decades, but the demand for PR practitioners continues to grow. Future of news editor Ira Basen delves into the numbers that show the ratio of PR professionals to journalists has reached an all-time…
Le rapport Pew publié l’an dernier démontrait que les licenciements dans les salles de rédaction états-uniennes avaient fait fuir l’audience. Le contraste est frappant avec le rapport de cette année, qui statue que si les problèmes révélés l’an dernier persistent pour une grande part, le niveau d’activité dans l’industrie des médias a été tel l’an…
An old-fashioned newspaper war is brewing in Nova Scotia, where the dominant Halifax daily, the Chronicle Herald has taken on competitors in three regions of the province. Business of journalism editor Kelly Toughill reports.
When the Newspaper Guild signed its first contract in Canada, on Apr. 12, 1949, the Toronto Star became the first Toronto daily to pay its editorial workers time-and-a-half for overtime.
Internationally renowned photographers Rita Leistner (Looking for Marshal McLuhan in Afghanistan) and Mike Kamber (writer and photographer for The New York Times, among many other outlets) sit down with curator and Newsweek photo editor Jamie Wellford. As practitioners whose work ranges from journalism to fine art, the three will discuss everything from the practicalities to…
A Canadian-born journalist working for the Associated Press was wounded Friday while on assignment in Afghanistan. Kathy Gannon, 60, of Timmins, Ont., was shot twice and the news agency said she was in stable condition after undergoing surgery.
Henry Blodget recently wrote that journalism has entered a golden age. Paul Benedetti and James R. Compton argue against the notion, calling it a baseless and insidious idea that masks the colonization of a once proudly skeptical profession with promotional hucksterism and reinforces a false notion that all is well.
C’est du moins le point de vue de Jean-François Dumas, président d’Influence Communication. Selon lui, «la controverse, l’anecdotique dominent tellement que ce qui importe finalement c’est de savoir qui va faire la jambette à l’autre, qui va rester, qui va être le dernier dans le loft à la fin, qui va gagner l’élection.»
The documentary, Silence of the Labs, provided many relevant facts and presented alternative perspectives about an important public policy issue so that Canadians could draw their own conclusions, writes CBC ombudsman Esther Enkin.
An election endorsement doesn’t stop the editorial board from criticizing anything the endorsed party or government subsequently does, writes The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead.