Sun News Network issued an apology for the second time in a week, this time for calling the Vancouver Observer an "in-house publication of Tides Foundation." Tamara Baluja reports.
It’s 2013. Visible minorities are 50% of the GTA population. What impact has this had in the coverage of stories that fall outside what is considered "the mainstream?" Are the shootings at the Sikh gurdwara in the U.S., Tamil protests in Toronto or the Shafia murders treated like any other story or treated as stories…
Huis clos rejeté! Les médias ont gagné leur combat, les journalistes ont finalement accès à la salle d’audience dans laquelle se déroule l’enquête préliminaire au procès Magnotta. L’occasion de parler encore un peu plus de faits-divers dans une Province qui en est déjà très friande.
Canadian newspapers are experimenting with ebook content, price points and word counts. So far, there hasn't been a lot of consensus on what makes the best business and editorial sense, writes Eric Mark Do. This is the second part of a two-part J-Source series on ebooks.
While other newspapers have gone behind paywalls in an effort to make up revenue shortfall, La Presse publisher and president Guy Crevievr said the new tablet subscription will be offered for free. La Presse invested $40-million over three years into this new platform.
The Globe and Mail Monday A1 photo, which showed 17-year-old Kaetlyn Osmond lifting her leg in a revealing crotch shot position, sparked outrage amongst readers. J-Source has a round-up of the reaction from journalists and the public.
Canadian Press reporter Mike Blanchfield has won the James Travers fellowship, an $25,000 international reporting grant that will allow him to probe the human cost of cluster bombs worldwide.
The Halifax Chronicle Herald announced it’s launching a new weekend edition that will be larger than the Saturday and Sunday newspaper combined with more columns and local content. The new weekend edition will be published on April 20, ending a 15-year run for the Chronicle Herald’s Sunday edition. J-Source associate editor Tamara Baluja reports.
J-Source goes behind the story of the National Newspaper Award-nominated story “Cashing In: Inside PEI’s Controversial Immigrant Partner Programs.” Laura Armstrong, a graduate of University of King’s College journalism program and deputy editor for “Cashing In,” explains how their student investigative workshop exposed the inner workings of the province's immigration program.
The Toronto Star and Transcontinental Media are getting push back from Canadian writers’ organizations over new contracts that writers say removes copyright as well as moral rights from the creator. Toronto writer Paula Last reports.