With freelance budgets shrinking, some journalists have decided to take financing into their own hands and launched crowd-funding campaigns. J-Source interviews two freelance journalists who have successfully fundraised over $30,000 collectively.
The Conservatives have tabled an omnibus budget bill that some critics say would give the government sweeping powers to participate in labour discussions with independent Crown organizations, including the CBC, and steer discussions on wages and benefits, critics say. Check out the J-Source round-up of commentary, analysis and positions on this issue.
Ottawa Citizen's deputy editorial pages editor Kate Heartfield wrote a moving tribute to the Boston Globe saluting their coverage of the marathon bombing. Heartfield writes she toyed with the idea of sending them pizza – "If there’s one thing that ties journalists together, it’s newsroom pizza." But instead she wrote this tribute, "because I work for a…
Malgré le succès de La Presse+, le Journal de Montréal et Le Devoir n'ont pas l'intention de changer leurs habitudes. Et ils demeurent sceptiques face à la stratégie numérique de La Presse.
Toronto Star reporters will get mandatory training on fairness and due diligence after the newspaper had published false allegations that Ontario MPP Margarett Best vacationed in Mexico while on medical leave. It issued a rare apology on its front page, citing an “egregious lapse of the Star’s standards.”
Ashleigh Gaul, online editor for Up Here magazine about is the winner of the Greg Clark Award for early-career journalists. The Canadian Journalism Foundation award gives a young journalist a chance to meet key decision-makers on their beats. Gaul will spend her Greg Clark experience in Cambridge Bay investigating the influence of mining developments in Nunavut. "The Nunavut Resources Corporation intrigues me…
Read the related article: Ottawa bureau chief Rob Russo leaving Canadian Press As a reporter, editor, foreign correspondent and our Ottawa Bureau Chief, Rob Russo has always been one of the most exceptional journalists to ever work for The Canadian Press. Earlier today, Rob announced to his staff that he intends to step down in the…
Monday I celebrate 40 yrs with CTV News. ctvnews.ca Link to old photos &hairstyles! Thank you for welcoming me into your homes — Sandie Rinaldo (@SandieR_ctv) May 5, 2013 She began her career with the CTV by answering phones. Four decades later, Sandie Rinaldo has made history as the first woman in Canada to anchor…
Russo has been at the helm of the bureau since 2003 and he was awarded the Charles Lynch Award for lifetime achievement as a Parliamentary journalist in 2010.
Le Globe and Mail, La Presse et le Toronto Star ont remporté quatre prix chacun au Concours canadien de journalisme, vendredi, à Ottawa.