Michael Maclear is not as well-known as he should be, writes David Common, host of CBC’s World Report, in this review of the journalist’s latest book Guerilla Nation. But that’s a shame because Maclear’s tales of North Vietnam, as well as his struggles with Canada’s public broadcaster, are riveting.
Deux professeurs de l’Université d’Amsterdam, spécialisés en étude des médias, se sont penchés sur la question de la perception et des attentes du public néerlandais quant à l’imputabilité de leurs médias. Les points marquants de leur recherche indiquent un manque d’intérêt du public pour l’interactivité avec leurs médias et un fort appel à la professionnalisation…
À l’époque où il était président du Conseil des relations interculturelles, Arlindo Vieira a dirigé plusieurs consultations sur des enjeux reliés à la gestion de la diversité dans la société québécoise et dans l’agglomération montréalaise. Aujourd’hui à la tête de la station communautaire Radio centre-ville, il s’attèle chaque jour à donner la parole à ceux…
Can Toronto Star reporters take material from the Star's own archives? Sometimes, yes. But outright copying of a colleague's work is plagiarism, writes public editor Kathy English.
When Brad Demers’s position as a paginator at the St. Catharines Standard was eliminated, he decided he wanted to say goodbye in his own cheeky way.
AM640 host John Oakley and The Morning Show's Liza Fromer will co-host live, daily simulcasts at, you guessed it, 6:40 a.m. daily. The collaboration between the Corus radio station and Shaw Media’s Global Toronto show comes as Canada’s broadcast regulator looks at the companies’ relationship ahead of its review of Corus’s $494-million acquisition of several television channels from BCE Inc.
Norfolk News launched its first print edition on Oct. 3 with 17,000 copies. The newspaper has hired a staff of eight to cover hyperlocal news in southwestern Ontario.
When the Ottawa Morning Show ran an interview with Terry Woodard, the widow of the driver of the Ottawa bus that collided with a train, there was quite a lot of reaction. The interview was raw and painful to listen to. Was it the wrong decision to air it? The complainant, Chris Young, thought it…
If you are a fan of page A2 in the paper and the corrections online, you will be interested to know how The Globe and Mail staff find out about errors, writes public editor Sylvia Stead.
The Ottawa Citizen’s Matthew Pearson recently covered the funeral of Ottawa bus crash victim Karen Krzyzewski. He shares his advice for reporting on such events.