At some point, nearly every journalist has been guilty of having used the oft-dreaded, always-loathed jargon in his or her copy. When you read this list, try saying some of them out loud—they'll probably sound weird. That’s because nobody (outside of police and spokespeople, maybe) actually says this stuff in real life.
Les employés syndiqués de La Presse Canadienne (PC) ont adopté hier une nouvelle convention collective. Ils acceptaient ainsi l'entente de principe ratifiée il y a un peu plus de deux semaines par les parties syndicales et patronales au terme à quatre mois de négociations difficiles.
Former CBC cameraman, father, husband and news junkie Dean Heywood passed away from a heart attack last month while snorkelling in Costa Rica.
Last year, breast cancer forced Kathleen Petty to trade 14-hour days for some time for herself. The Ottawa Citizen's Shelley Page sat down with Petty to talk about her cancer and that positive outlook she has been given.
Connu pour sa fonction de tribunal d'honneur du journalisme, le Conseil de presse du Québec lance un magazine en ligne. Il se veut «une vitrine importante de ce qui se pense, s’écrit et se dit sur les pratiques journalistiques de qualité, au Québec, au Canada et ailleurs», écrit le secrétaire général de l'organisme, Guy Amyot,…
According to a humour columnist in California, Steve Jeffrey, the editor and publisher of Alberta community weekly The Anchor, has lifted others' work and run it under his own byline an alleged 42 times in the last year.
CTV London has announced that senior anchor Dan MacLellan has resigned in order to focus on upcoming legal challenges.
Last year's adaptation of The Elements of Style wasn't the first time young, white, educated males have parodied hip hop, and it surely won't be the last. But Chris Richardson, a media studies PhD candidate at Western University, says that lost in the chuckles and grammatical debates, however, is a discussion of what it means…
Newsrooms are using live blog technology as a gatekeeping tool for coverage during the Tori Stafford murder trial currently underway in London, Ontario. As journalists and editors grapple with efforts to provide real-time coverage of high profile cases, Twitter alone is problematic, as Toronto Star Public Editor Kathy English pointed out recently. Professor Robert Washburn…
Combien de personnes ont envahi les rues de Montréal hier pour manifester contre la hausse des frais de scolarité? 100 000, 200 000? Les rédactions ne sont pas d'accord. Alors que Le Devoir titrait ce matin «200 000 fois "entendez-nous!"», La Presse y allait de «100 000 NON!».