Innovation: Winnipeg Free Press uses augmented reality app to bring multimedia to the print edition
Readers can scan the newspaper with the app Blippar to link to digital content such as videos and photo slideshows on their mobile devices.
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Trespass charge against Star reporter dropped
Trespassing charges against Alex Consiglio, the Toronto Star reporter arrested in June after photographing a scuffle on a platform at Toronto Union Station, have been dropped, the Star reported Friday.
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La Charte des valeurs occupe les modérateurs
Selon le classement hebdomadaire d’Influence Communication, le débat autour de la Charte des valeurs que tente d’imposer le gouvernement péquiste a occupé près de 10% de l’espace médiatique québécois la semaine dernière. Preuve de la sensibilité du sujet, les différents articles ont généré de nombreux commentaires, parfois teintés de racisme et de xénophobie.
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Chronicle Herald buys three Halifax-based weeklies from TC Media
TC Media has withdrawn from the Halifax market with the sale of its three community newspapers to the Chronicle-Herald.
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Globe public editor: Does the coverage of politicians have to be equal?
For all the attention to who generates the greatest number of references, perhaps the most important question is not about whether the coverage is equal but whether it fairly explains each party’s platform, writes The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead.
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Star public editor: Press council provided opportunity for greater public understanding of journalism
The Ontario Press Council was exercising its right and responsibility in holding the Toronto Star to account for its reporting on Mayor Rob Ford “crack” video, writes the newspaper's public editor Kathy English.
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Charte des valeurs: consensus chez Gesca, divergences chez Québecor
Sujet numéro un au Québec depuis que le ministre Drainville en a enfin dévoilé la teneur mardi, la Charte des valeurs. Pas un chroniqueur qui n’ait sa petite idée sur la question. Mais alors que l’on reproche souvent aux donneurs d’opinion de l’empire Québecor de parler comme un seul homme, c’est au contraire du côté…
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Going native: The death of journalism or the way of the future?
More and more publishers are convinced native advertising will play an important role in whatever new business model for news emerges out of journalism’s current economic crisis, writes J-Source Future of News editor Ira Basen.
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Opinion: The Ontario Press Council hearings left many questions unanswered
It was a hearing, not a trial, but not a good one. The press council's guidelines say "at a hearing, both sides are asked to restate their positions and present any additional submissions considered relevant by the hearing chair." But that didn't happen and there were many issues which the press council did not pursue…
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CBC Ombudsman: Not ideal that CBC has not seen video but decision to cover Rob Ford alleged crack video story was correct
It is certainly not ideal to have been talking about a tape that no CBC reporter had seen, but given the high profile of the people involved, and how the story evolved, the decision to stay with the story was a correct one, writes CBC's Ombudsman Esther Enkin.