Malcolm Kelly gives a preview of a panel on sports journalism taking place at this weekend's CAJ Conference that will look at the revenue sports produces and the audience figures it draws that are, he says, the envy of more "serious" journalists.
Though the relationship between audience and journalist has changed over recent years, collaborative story-telling is still a work in progress. As Karen Owen explains, in the end, it's up to journalists to ensure the information in their stories is fair and accurate.
Bien que CBC/Radio-Canada devra composer avec 115 M$ de moins au cours des trois prochaines années, ses cadres continueront de toucher leurs primes de rendement annuelles. «8 M$ par année pour les 3 prochaines années, soit l'équivalent de plus d'une centaine d'emplois» devraient ainsi être distribués, dénonce un front commun de quatre syndicats desservant le…
Newspaper subscriptions may be waning in places where digital technology has been widely adopted and online news is quite literally at your fingertips at all times by means of smartphone technology, but this isn’t the case across the globe.
Par Chantal Francoeur Des journalistes oeuvrant au privé, au public et dans les médias communautaires. Des travailleurs avec des postes permanents, des pigistes et des bénévoles. Des chercheurs. Des étudiants. Des citoyens. Des activistes venant de partout au pays. Tous tournés vers la recherche de solutions à court, moyen et long terme pour un journalisme…
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: