En réponse à la note interne du PDG du diffuseur public Hubert Lacroix, annonçant des «nuages sombres» et préparant les employés à des «décisions difficiles» dans les prochains mois, le Syndicat des communications dénonce l’insolence de la direction, nie les difficultés financières avancées et croit plutôt en un choix idéologique délibéré.
Tom Marshall, interim premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, has announced that three independent experts will review the province’s controversial access-to-information law, The Canadian Press reported.
As experience and exposure are now their own form of currency, accepting unpaid work is a logical, rational investment in the hope that it will lead to a paying gig, writes Kathleen Kuehn, a lecturer in media studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
Fellowships are available to attend the Poynter Institute in Florida or to fund a B.C. journalist in a self-defined professional development program.
Amber Schinkel will join Scott Fee as co-host of Global Calgary's Morning News Show on Feb. 3. She replaces Susanne Fox who left the show in December.
À quel point la structure organisationnelle et les intérêts des médias touchent-ils réellement l’autonomie professionnelle des journalistes? C’est la question qu’a posée le chercheur Morten Skovsgaard, de l’University of Southern Denmark. Son étude montre que les journalistes danois considèrent, en général, posséder une forte autonomie professionnelle.
Toronto Star political journalist Susan Delacourt will be awarded the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism on April 10.
Bloomberg News is seeking strategists for its First Word FX service as it expands coverage of FX and rates markets to Canada and Latin America, particularly Brazil and Mexico.
Il n’y a pas que les salles de nouvelles qui ont intérêt à s’adapter aux bouleversements que connait la profession depuis quelques années, les formations en journalisme aussi. Toutes s’y mettent, avec plus ou moins d’ampleur.
CBC reporter Duncan McCue writes that an elder once told him the only way an Indian would make it on the news is if he or she were one of the 4Ds: drumming, dancing, drunk or dead. While initially dismissing the idea as too simplistic, McCue started looking more closely at aboriginal people in the news, and sure enough those 4Ds sure do…