The Canadian Press Atlantic bureau hiring summer intern
The Canadian Press Atlantic bureau is seeking a summer intern, scheduled to start June 11.
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Postmedia reports second quarter loss, decrease in ad revenue
Postmedia Network has reported its second quarter results for a net loss of over $11 million, and revenue that sits 7.6 per cent below where it did in the same period last year.
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A public broadcaster at a crossroads: CBC moving forward
It’s been a tumultuous week for the CBC — 650 jobs will be lost, services and programming will be cut, RCI will be no more save for the web. But as Belinda Alzner reports, this isn’t a first for the public broadcaster. It’s time for CBC to deal with the cuts it faces, and there is no…
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Spring Conferences for Journalism Researchers
Spring is here, and so are Canada’s journalism conferences. Here is a roundup of some of the more promising conferences for journalism researchers.
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Journalism Strategies Conference, Montreal, QC: April 19-21
A national discussion on journalism policy is needed now for two reasons: The Bell purchase of Astral, and the recently announced cuts to the CBC. As Christine Crowther, lead coordinator of the Journalism Strategies Conference explains, media concentration and cuts to public broadcasting are not new. That’s precisely the problem. Both are well-known and much-discussed…
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The Globe and Mail reporter Tamara Baluja wins the Greg Clark Award
The Canadian Journalism Foundation has announced that Tamara Baluja, a national reporter with The Globe and Mail with a special interest in education, is the winner of the Greg Clark Award for early career journalists.
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GGI – Médias, dissidence et dialogue dans l’espace public
Par Colette Brin Quand les débats politiques s’enflamment, les médias peuvent-ils favoriser le dialogue entre contestataires et décideurs? S’ils se contentent de raconter et de montrer l’escalade des tensions, faut-il les tenir partiellement responsables de la détérioration du climat social? Doivent-ils s’interroger sur les intérêts des sources qui les alimentent et en informer le public?…
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Classic Gopnik
In the latest issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, Matthew Braga profiles Adam Gopnik and explains why The New Yorker essayist aspires to be the “rococo, Jewish, city-bound, Canadian E.B. White.”
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Radio-Canada, F-35 et Journal de Montréal
Un F-35 attaque la tour de Radio-Canada à Montréal. Ceci n'est pas la réalité, mais un photo-montage du caricaturiste du Journal de Montréal, Baudet. Cette illustration des compressions budgétaires imposées au réseau public par le gouvernement fédéral fait débat sur les réseaux sociaux.
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CBC Dispatches and Connect to be cancelled
Reports on Twitter during a CBC Town Hall stated that CBC Radio’s Dispatches with Rick MacInnes-Rae and Television’s Connect with Mark Kelley will be among the first to feel the wrath of a 10 per cent budget cut that was handed to the broadcaster in the Mar 29 federal budget.