Toronto Star Master Glass: Why prime lenses are useful
In this Toronto Star video series on photojournalism, photographer Lucas Oleniuk jumps into the Prime VS Zoom debate by explaining why his lens kit consists of (almost) all prime lenses.
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CJF accepting applications for new Aboriginal Journalism Fellowship
This new fellowship offers an early-career Aboriginal journalist the chance to explore an issue of interest to First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples. The award aims to foster better comprehension of Aboriginal issues in Canada’s major media and community outlets.
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Book Review: Digital Currents explores how online news is changing television
Drawing from extensive interviews with more than 100 key players in Canadian and British broadcast newsrooms, Rena Bivens’s Digital Currents is rich with insider examples and perspectives on the roadblocks and the rewards of making TV news in the digital age. Concordia University’s Corrine Smith reviews the book.
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How digital journalism has changed over the past 15 years
Journalists today are also marketers and event managers. The marketing—making posters, creating hashtags, publishing social media posts promoting the events, writing press releases, cold-calling potential panel members—involves techniques journalists wouldn’t have thought about using 10 years ago, writes Diana Pereira.
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Why it matters when separatist Péladeau flexes his media baron muscles
The danger in having media and politics mix in Quebec, writes Toula Drimonis, is that Quebecor, which also owns TV network TVA and cable company Videotron, not only controls how Quebecers see themselves and the rest of Canada, but also how the rest of Canada sees Quebec.
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Remembering Heather Robertson
Michael OReilly, president of the Canadian Freelance Union, pays tribute to the trail-blazing freelancer and her legacy.
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Opinion: Crackdown on unpaid internships a positive step, but the collective struggle must continue
The rules around internships versus employees are not new in Ontario, but it is a welcome, if not long overdue, turn of events that the Ministry of Labour is finally conducting a proactive enforcement blitz to bring employers that use internships in line with the law, writes Katherine Lapointe.
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This week in Canadian media history: Voice of Newfoundland joins CBC upon Confederation
The Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland (BCN), which also owned the Voice of Newfoundland (VONF), officially joined the CBC on Apr. 1, 1949 after Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation.
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Quand les sites satiriques s’amusent des travers du journalisme
À quelques jours du 1er avril, journée où la parodie est reine, ProjetJ met un coup de projecteur sur ces sites satiriques, qui soulignent en s’en amusant les petits travers du journalisme. Une (dés)information plus vraie que nature, qui à l’heure des réseaux sociaux, devient parfois virale… au point que citoyens et décideurs se font…
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David Skok: Why the death of the homepage is good for digital journalism
In the 2014 Atkinson Lecture, David Skok, digital adviser to the editor at the Boston Globe, explains why the death of the homepage is good for digital journalism.