Surging Wildrose vs. a disenchanted PC dynasty: It was an aggressive narrative the media wanted so badly to be true that we—encouraged by dependable polls—urged it along. As Zoey Duncan reports, it wasn’t until the ballot boxes were counted that we realized how utterly we’d all been swept along by so-called opinion polls.
Zoey Duncan explains that though bloggers and tweeters directed much of the coverage of the Alberta provincial election, when it came to mainstream media, amongst all the digital pageantry and Wildrose boosterism, one thing was conspicuously sparse in the coverage—context.
With little demand for environmental stories in Canadian mainstream publications, freelance journalist Stephen Leahy faced two options: Give up the beat, or find a new way to make ends meet. Paul Weinberg explains why the 20-year veteran chose the latter and how he is faring.
The Journalism Strategies Conference at McGill in Montreal was full of interesting critiques, insights and thoughtful discussion. Professor Robert Washburn provides a summary blog on a few impressions from this past weekend where academics, journalists and students examined journalism and its role in democracy now and in the future.
The 2011 Michener Award for meritorious public-service journalism to be awarded on May, 10, 2012, includes these finalists:
Anyone who came to last night’s forum on participatory journalism looking to be told definitively how blogging, commenting, social media and engagement have changed the craft of journalism surely left disappointed. While the panelists agreed that engaging with audiences is both beneficial and absolutely essential in a new media landscape, there were differences of opinion…
En octobre dernier, le magazine L'actualité a lancé l' «opération sous-marin». Son chef de bureau politique, Alec Castonguay, a intégré le comité stratégique du parti à titre d'observateur silencieux. «La Chaise», comme on l'a surnommé pendant six mois, s'est livrée à un exercice journalistique rare au Québec: observer et analyser un parti de l'intérieur pendant…
CHCH Morning Live’s viewers saw more than they bargained for when Friday morning's news broadcast was overtaken by a porn movie.
Sure, the mayor is on a diet. But did a grainy, context-free citizen-submitted video really warrant being run by a newspaper? (Especially one that has an open feud with Mayor Ford?)
Martin Forgues est journaliste indépendant, mais il est aussi un ex-militaire, un vétéran de l'Afghanistan. Il présente son regard sur la publication, hier, d'un reportage choc en une du Los Angeles Times montrant des soldats américains posant avec des restes de corps humains en Afghanistan.