In the first of a series of video tutorials on data journalism tools, J-Source's Computer Assisted Reporting editor Fred Vallance-Jones goes over how to use a Google spreadsheet to do some basic sorting and summing of information from the Internet.
Bell poursuit sa stratégie d'intégration verticale. Après CTV en 2010, elle met 3,38 milliards de dollars sur la table pour s'offrir Astral Media. Cette entreprise spécialiste de la radio, de l’affichage extérieur et de la télévision spécialisée, lui permettra d'offrir une panoplie de contenus partout au pays.
Since Jan. 30, the Journal de Montréal and its capital city counterpart, the Journal de Québec, have had a new online presence. The president and publisher of JdeM, Lyne Robitaille, plans to market nothing less than “a site that redefines the standard for transmitting information on the Internet.”
Quebec provincial police raided the home of a Montreal reporter Thursday morning, seizing his computer, files and some of his clothes, after he wrote about lax security in Montreal-area hospitals. Eric-Yvan Lemay of Le Journal de Montreal reported in February that Montreal-area hospitals had left patient files unattended in their corridors. Police raided his home…
"S'up Easy-E!" — Real-life Kathryn Marshall to real-life Ezra Levant on Twitter.
Mark Coddington rounds up discussion surrounding the use of anonymous sources in the wake of the New York Times op-ed about a Goldman Sachs employee's very public resignation.
In a deal valued at $3.38 billion, it has been announced that Bell will acquire Astral Media, giving the largest telecommunications company in Canada a significant increase in French-language content in Quebec, putting it on par with Quebecor. It is a deal that has drawn criticism for once again increasing the amount of media concentration in Canada.
Le journaliste Éric-Yvan Lemay, du Journal de Montréal, a reçu la visite des enquêteurs de la Sûreté du Québec ce matin à 6h45. Mandat de perquisition en main, les policiers ont demandé l'ordinateur du journaliste, ses empreintes digitales et les vêtements qu'il portait le mois dernier pendant son enquête sur la confidentialité des dossiers médicaux dans…
Libel cases don’t come on the cheap. But the cost of the cases could be reduced, according to a new report from a British group appropriately named Alternative Libel Project.
The Quebec Writers' Federation will be holding a workshop on April 7 with Julian Sher, an award-winning investigative journalist. Sher will discuss how to navigate tough interviews and how to sell stories in a vivid manner.