With the power to publish now in the palms of million of hands, what does it mean for the relationship between journalists and the brands whose news they once had a near-monopoly on distribution? And with more brands taking advantage of this fact and moving to tell their own stories and establish their brands as…
CBC is expanding its local coverage with new, one-hour programs in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa.
Why does the Toronto Star publish opinion columns that readers judge to be outrageous, offensive, inappropriate? Columnists express their own views, not the views of the Star, which are expressed on its editorial pages, writes public editor Kathy English. They can and often do express opinions the Star does not agree with.
Once you raise the issue that many in the media haven’t mentioned John Greyson’s orientation for “fear it would go worse for him,” as Margaret Wente wrote), The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead says you need to very explicitly answer that question about why you have chosen to mention his orientation.
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador apologized for a column written by host John Furlong, which likened some Innu from the Natuashish community to zombies, calling them "expressionless, silent, brooding, uncommunicative." Denise Wilson, managing director of CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, called the column a "mistake" in an editor's note.
Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, will give a talk at Carleton University titled: "So you want to know the future of news? Ask the Audience." Rosenstiel is co-author of The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect and the newly-released The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles…
Bulldog Ottawa, a blog run by former Ottawa Citizen municipal affairs reporter Ken Gray, says it has put back on the list after being "blacklisted" from the city's email communications list.
Roy Peterson, a cartoonist with the Vancouver Sun, died Sept. 30. Here is a collection of some of his celebrated work.
De 2000 à 2010, la crise de l’information au sein de la presse écrite québécoise a provoqué une perte de pouvoir des syndicats et un affaiblissement du modèle d’autorégulation des médias québécois, alors qu’un nombre grandissant de journaux se retire du Conseil de presse du Québec.
L’homme le plus riche du Québec, propriétaire de Power Corporation et de sa filiale médiatique Gesca, est décédé la nuit dernière à l’âge de 86 ans. Quel impact cette disparition aura sur le paysage médiatique québécois? Gesca restera-t-elle dans le giron de la famille Desmarais? Différentes analyses s’affrontent.