It's undeniable that paywalls could provide an important new revenue stream for cash-strapped media outlets, but as Alexandra Posadzki reports, they also pose unique challenges—and perhaps some hidden opportunity—for freelance reporters.
We called for nominees and you answered, giving us a list of 28 people from across the country that you deemed worthy of the J-Source Canadian Newsperson of the Year award. Check out this roundup of Canadian journalism that you nominated.
Krista Erickson, the Sun TV host of Canada Live, has quit the network and moved to the United Kingdom, The Globe and Mail’s Steve Ladurantaye reports, where she has been spotted reporting for CBS News London.
Sports journalist Richard Garneau died Sunday morning at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital at the age of 82. While Garneau was known for calling the Montreal Canadiens games on L’soiree du hockey, he also covered 23 Olympic Games, and according to The Globe’s obituary, his true passion was in these non-professional sports. As Sophie Cousineau writes:…
Canadian Television: Text and Context is an "exemplary collection" of essays and is about both the substance and practice of television studies, and offers myriad solutions to some of the above challenges facing those studying the medium. Those in the field will find it rewarding and those teaching will find it to be a useful teaching tool.…
Our French-language sister site, ProjetJ, has named Jean-Philippe Cipriani its new editor-in-chief.
COMMUNIQUÉ | MONTRÉAL, 21 janvier 2013 – ProjetJ, l’observatoire indépendant du journalisme et des médias, annonce la nomination de Jean-Philippe Cipriani au poste de rédacteur en chef.
In what has been called an “unusual, if not unprecedented” move, the Prime Minister’s Office and parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister Dean Del Mastro have issued a statement in response to reporting by Stephen Maher in which Maher is referred to as "controversial."
The University of Toronto Scarborough campus is hiring a lecturer in journalism for a full-time teaching stream appointment to begin July 1, 2013. Deadline: March 12, 2013.
If the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network wasn't already on your radar, it likely is now. The small network has been on the Idle No More protest story since it began on Dec. 10.