The Ryerson Review of Journalism and its contributors from the Winter and Summer 2012 issues have won a number of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) awards.
More changes are ahead for Postmedia newspapers as the company looks to reinvent itself. With the company reporting another quarter of losses yesterday, Belinda Alzner explains what is to come, the company's digital first agenda and how last month's restructuring fits in to the bigger picture.
On the 30th anniversary of Access to Information, David McKie sees reason for positivity: If we’re capable of doing stories with a weak law that gives the government too many ways to withhold information, and the information commissioner too few powers to force institutions to hand over records, then think of the stories we could do with an…
Steve Ladurantaye has covered a lot of stories from flakey TV stars to competition in the real estate industry. But this was his first time covering a sporting event. Here is what he learned while covering last weekend’s Toronto Argonauts game.
Today’s media links from Canadan and beyond: Bell Media’s moves as soon-to-be owners of Astral Media, a journalist cowboy’s 16,000 km trek, Conrad Black wants his voice to be heard and two more journalists arrested in England in Elveden investigation. And today’s read: What city is the country’s best? Stephen Harper says Calgary.
Think your working conditions are tough? Laurel Clark, a journalist with Global Edmonton, recently returned from Monrovia, Liberia, where she and a Global colleague were mentoring Liberian journalists at a local television station. Somewhere between her admiration for the Liberian journalists’ dedication and lamenting their lack of funding, Clark found a new appreciation for practicing journalism in…
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: CJFE awards media lawyer with Vox Libera award, remember Canada’s version of The Newsroom?, journos on reporting labour stats and UN calls for protection of journalists. And today’s read: the National Post’s Andrew Coyne on Canada’s hate speech law.
New York Times’ media columnist David Carr’s Monday column takes a look at another daunting problem facing newspapers: paying journalists’ pensions.
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: One journo looks at self-plagiarizing, OMNI to broadcast CEMA Awards, Regulators to consider if Sun News is dependable, says one writer and why one journalist was called to death by an imam. And today’s read: are you getting errors when trying to log on? Here’s why.
The scandal over Jonah Lehrer's self-plagiarism at the New Yorker has subsided but the controversy highlighted growing pressure on writers to write more for less pay in a content-hungry online media industry. Jeff Fraser explains who this hurts and where the blame should lie.