After 67 years of international shortwave service, Radio Canada International has gone off-air and online-only in response to drastic budget cuts that representatives say will leave them unable to produce content. Angelina Irinci reports that RCI says financial autonomy would help them out, but is the federal government willing to consider it?
Jeff Fraser rounds up the controversy over Jonah Lehrer's reuse of his own work that has grown throughout the week, raising questions about journalistic ethics surrounding plagiarism and recycling one's own words (without telling your bosses).
Les lecteurs montréalais enterrent un deuxième journal gratuit de langue anglaise en moins de deux mois. Après The Hour, voilà que The Mirror disparaît. Sun Media, filiale de Québecor Média, a annoncé la fermeture de l'hebdomadaire culturel anglophone, en milieu de journée. L'édition en kiosque est la dernière. Sept employés perdent ainsi leur emploi et…
Sun Media announced today that this will be the final issue of the Montreal cultural alt-weekly. It has ceased publication effective immediately.
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: Karla Homolka lives in Guadeloupe, CBC’s Dispatches airs its final show, The Ottawa Citizen notes we revolve around the sun, not the moon, and no more pro-Syrian regime associations for a U.S. journo. And today’s read: Toronto’s condo boom prompts Jim Flaherty to tighten mortgage rules.
A survey of more than 600 journalists worldwide reveals that more journalists are using social media to find story ideas or new angles on a story.
Are press councils the most effective way for readers to complain about newspapers' conduct? That's the question Lisa Taylor and Ivor Shapiro have been asking for months. Now, they're moving into the next stage of their study with the knowledge they've gained along the way.
Par Claudia Guerra Journaliste à Coaticook, mais originaire de Montréal, Josée Marie-Lise Robillard a pu découvrir les deux côtés de médaille au cours de sa jeune carrière: la précarité de la pige et la stabilité du journalisme à contrat. Et depuis peu, elle explore une autre facette du métier: être à la tête de son…
The CRTC has approved Rogers Broadcasting Limited’s purchase of Saskatchewan Communications Network from Bluepoint Investment Inc. for $3 million.
Today’s media links from Canada and beyond: Rogers hopes to bring MLB Network to Canada, will journos be heroes again in TV?, a recent j-school grad discusses her “useless” degree and Ethiopia’s Skype ban blocks journos, too. And today’s read: Hamilton Spectator columnist discusses media’s coverage on teen suicide.