Two days, two summaries and a whole lot of reasons that you should care about freedom of the press. Belinda Alzner and Rhiannon Russell have rounded up their coverage of a conference discussing the state of press freedom in Canada on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, held…
In as few as a couple of weeks, Sun Media will begin delivering four new newspapers to communities in Ontario: Windsor, Ottawa, Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph
A conference hosted by Ryerson churned up some interesting questions about the state of press freedom in Canada. Do Canadians take press freedom for granted? And who gives a damn, anyway? War censors exercised direct control during World War II, but concluded that hiding the truth at the start is easier than censoring it later…
Contrairement à son vis-à-vis montréalais, La Presse, Le Soleil accueillera cinq stagiaires cet été à Québec. D'autres quotidiens régionaux du groupe Gesca ouvriront également leurs portes aux étudiants en journalisme désireux d'acquérir une première expérience de travail.
While working as an assignment editor and producer at CBS News in New York, Natasha Rudnick found herself relying on Twitter more and more to cover remote and international breaking news. This phenomenon of social networking provided an invaluable tool in discovering information and contacting sources on some of the biggest stories of the last…
The Professional Writers Association of Canada is accepting submissions for two award categories open to all Canadian writers: Features and Short Articles.
Newspapers Canada has announced the finalists for the 2012 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards, the winners of which will be presented at the Ink&Beyond conference on April 26 in Toronto.
J-Source's Belinda Alzner and Rhiannon Russell spent Mar. 8 and 9 liveblogging and tweeting from a conference discussing the status of press freedom in Canada, hosted by Ryerson University's Journalism Research Centre in partnership with the Law Research Centre.
At a panel discussion part of Ryerson University's Press Freedom in Canada conference, Tim Currie discussed what happens when journalists mess up on Twitter and Normand Landry talked about the stifling of press freedom via strategic lawsuits.
The Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards has put out a call for submissions. The separate book and magazine awards recognize excellence of writing and research in the area of social justice writing and also provide support for independent freelance writers during the publishing process.