Ezra Levant commentary: Media party = Liberal war room
Watch Sun News Network host Ezra Levant as he gives his analysis of media coverage of the Trudeau ad campaign and the Conservative's attack ads.
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CJF announces finalists for Excellence in Journalism Award
The Canadian Journalism Foundation has announced the finalists of its Excellence in Journalism Award in the large-media and small-media categories. The five finalists in the large-media category are:CBC News: Special Investigations UnitThe Current – CBC Radio OnePostmedia NewsToronto StarWinnipeg Free Press The five finalists in the small-media category are:CBC New BrunswickCP24Turtle Island NewsThe TyeeVancouver Observer…
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Michener Awards names 6 finalists for public service journalism
The Michener Awards Foundation announced six finalists for meritorious public service journalism. The finalists are: Enquête; The Coast; Postmedia News and Ottawa Citizen; La Presse; Toronto Star; and Vancouver Sun. The winner will be announced on June 18 at the Michener Awards ceremony hosted at Rideau Hall in Ottawa by the David Johnston, the governor general of Canada. Here is…
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Un mémo de mauvaises nouvelles en Colombie-Britannique
Le président et éditeur du Vancouver Sun et The Province, Gordon Fisher, a fait parvenir une lettre aux employés, mercredi, annonçant des réductions massives d’effectifs, notamment par le biais d’un programme de départs volontaires.
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UPDATED: Layoffs coming at Vancouver Sun and The Province
In a bluntly worded memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Pacific Newspaper Group president and publisher Gordon Fisher said the two newspapers have seen an “alarming and unprecedented revenue declines.” Now staff at the two newspapers are bracing themselves for impending layoffs, the details for which have yet to be released.
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Protecting playgrounds for the rich: The Conservative government’s omnibus budget bill gave “cottages” in certain Conservative ridings special treatment
By Glen McGregor, for Media Magazine The Conservative government angered environmentalists last fall when it introduced changes to a law that protects lakes and rivers from development. The Navigable Waters Protection Act is one of the oldest statutes in the country The law required federal approval for construction on any body of water large enough to float a canoe. Changes…
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The emergence of the market for data-journalism skills
By David McKie There has been a lot of distressing talk about the slow but sure death of journalism as we know it. With each passing week, there is news of yet another newspaper scaling back traditional content delivery and migrating much of that content to the Internet. In this space earlier this month, I…
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CAJ Code of Silence – Call for nominations
It's time to get even with that publicly funded government, department or agency whose information is kept in the murky shadows.” So says the Canadian Association of Journalists which is accepting nominations for its 13th annual Code of Silence Award recognizing Canada's most secretive publicly funded body. Previous winners include the Harper government, Toronto Police Service,…
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UPDATED: Saskatoon gets its first local CBC radio morning show; does not have CRTC licence
The new radio morning show has been in the works for almost five years, ever since CBC undertook a country-wide study looking at underserved markets. But the station will be up against some challenges when it launches April 29, including the retirement of one of its veteran hosts Costa Maragos and a market, that some…
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Reporting on terror: CBC’s David Common on covering the Boston bombing
David Common was CBC's lead reporter on the ground in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, and during an unprecedented search for the two suspects. Here in J-Source, he shares his experience following this breaking story that gripped the world.