He rarely touches Twitter or Facebook, doesn’t own a cell phone and shoots mostly on film. And yet, midway through his seventh decade, he remains one of the best and busiest multimedia photojournalists in the world. Larry Towell, the first Canadian member of the world’s most prestigious photo agency, Magnum Photos, recently took the time…
The School is seeking candidates with a strong background and demonstrated accomplishments in news media within a transforming news landscape. The successful candidate will be an outstanding teacher who will play a leading role in delivery and transformation of graduate and undergraduate curricula. He or she will also carry out a strong scholarly research agenda…
D’après le conseiller en stratégie médias sociaux, Neal Schaffer, auteur de Maximize Your Social: A One-Stop Guide to Building a Social Media Strategy for Marketing and Business Success, un profil LinkedIn complet et à jour peut faire toute la différence au moment de chercher un emploi.
What are the best practices for verifying information on social media? What are the common misconceptions journalists have about user-generated content? These are some of the questions The Verification Handbook, a new, free resource for journalists and humanitarian aid workers, hopes to answer. J-Source Education Editor Melanie Coulson interviewed Craig Silverman, the editor of the…
In this Toronto Star video series on photojournalism, photographer Richard Lautens has a ton of tips on how to best be prepared for shooting big events like the Olympics.
Al Jazeera Media Network and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) will hold a press conference on Feb. 6 at 1 p.m. ET in Toronto calling on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release five journalists detained there. On December 29th, Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy, Peter Greste, and Bahar Mohammed of Al Jazeera English were imprisoned…
Pour la première fois un journaliste sportif reçoit cet honneur des mains du Comité international olympique (CIO). Honneur d’ordinaire réservé à des athlètes ayant marqué les Jeux de leur humanisme et de leur esprit sportif. Revivez cette cérémonie à travers les tweets des journalistes sur place.
If you just report what a politician says, you get called nothing more than a lackey or a mindless stenographer. Report on whether the politician got the facts right, and you’ll likely be called a biased, partisan hack. Here, Torontoist editor-in-chief Hamutal Dotan explains why her news outlet fact-checked the mayor.
Même si c’est plus vrai du côté des formations techniques destinées à mettre les étudiants directement sur le marché du travail à la sortie, tous les collèges offrant un programme en journalisme ont intégré les nouvelles technologies à leur offre de cours, et amènent leurs étudiants à réfléchir à l’impact des médias sociaux sur le…
The blaze caused $2.5 million in damage and destroyed the local news archives.