Vancouver Magazine leads the Western Magazine Award finalists with 18 nominations. The winners will be announced on the June 21 in Vancouver. Here are the finalists, according to the press release. WRITTEN AWARDS ARTS, CULTURE, AND ENTERTAINMENT Eighteen Bridges, Curtis Gillespie, The PopulistGeist, Joe Fiorito, Wednesday, August 17, 2011MONTECRISTO Magazine, Craig David Long, Never Left…
The Resort Municipality of Whistler is the winner of the Code of Silence Award, which names the most secretive government or publicly funded agency according to the CAJ.
The Globe and Mail, La Presse and the Toronto Star each took home four National Newspaper Awards. Meanwhile, the Canadian Press and the Ottawa Citizen each took two prizes.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression accorde la note D- au gouvernement Harper, dénonçant le silence imposé aux scientifiques par Pêches et Océans Canada, de même que des policiers qui se sont fait passer pour des journalistes afin de surveiller des militants autochtones.
En cette Journée mondiale de la liberté de presse, la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) lance un appel pressant à la première ministre, Pauline Marois, pour accroître la transparence de l'État.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression has released its annual Review of Free Expression in Canada, surveying free expression and access to information issues and grading various institutions from A to F on their performance in the past year. “Freedom of expression in Canada truly does span the spectrum from head of the class to flunking out,”…
Postmedia News' Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor of the Ottawa Citizen have been named recipients of the World Press Freedom Award. "Maher and McGregor were selected for the Award for a series of stories they co-wrote on the so-called 'Robocalls" affair exposing fraud in the federal election of 2011," the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom…
Check out the J-Source storify of the Sun News Network hearings with the CRTC.
Julia Belluz, senior editor at The Medical Post and creator of the Toronto-based Science-ish blog on macleans.ca, was named one of 12 Knight Science Journalism fellows. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Ryerson University’s journalism school, and is a National Magazine Award winner. The nine-month fellowship is based in MIT and…
Publisher and co-founder John Cameron said tonight had been chasing after this deal with the since its inception four years ago.