Canadian study investigates sourcing practices and framing of homelessness in the news. Elyse Amend and David Secko write about the study which considers the power of expert quotes in three Canadian newspapers to frame homelessness.
Il y a deux ans, cinq journalistes indépendants créaient un site d'information dédié à leur quartier: RueMasson.com. Quelques milliers d'articles et de tweets plus tard, le site accueille aujourd'hui 25 000 visiteurs par mois en moyenne. Il compte plus de 3700 fans sur Facebook et plus de 2000 abonnés sur Twitter. Mais tous ces clics…
BBC World Service has been in the business of delivering news for 80 years, but today marked the first time they opened up their daily news meeting to be broadcast live.
By the end of the Second World War, Canadian press censors themselves had come to believe censorship did not work, according to Mark Bourrie, author of The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two. Though the top wartime censors, all former journalists, were not big believers in suppressing information in the…
Lloyd Robertson and Andy Walsh are set to be the newest inductees to the Canadian News Hall of Fame at a gala in Toronto on May 16.
Mary Thibeault’s estate has yet to be settled seven years after her death, and the blame lies with the executor of her will: Halifax mayor Peter Kelly. Rhiannon Russell reports on how Tim Bousquet investigated this story for Halifax alt-weekly The Coast and effectively ended the political career of the mayor of the largest city…
It’s been 30 years since Section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms made a free press the law of the land. But, on the eve of a national conference to take stock of the state of press freedom in Canada, Ivor Shapiro sees more apathy than passion around the issue.
Meredith Levine is J-Source’s Health and Medical editor and the recipient of a Tier 1 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Journalism Award. Levine will receive $20,000 to conduct research on vestibular disorders and what they mean for the estimated one million Canadians who suffer from them.
In response to a Twitter conversation that occurred over the weekend, Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement and Social Media for Digital First Media listed a number of reasons that news organizations should include outbound links.
Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts and Critical Framework offers the thought-provoking and intriguing entry points to a field undergoing a most fascinating transformation, but students of communication will not get ready-made recipes and solutions for treating the world of media. They will get something more valuable.