The Guardian’s launch of its Open Journalism approach this week with the innovative, witty Three Pigs advertisement also ushers in a powerful endorsement of the collaborative approach to producing news. While Canadian newsrooms are embracing new ideas and approaches, the size and scope of this initiative paves an exciting new path. Robert Washburn opens the…
CBC's the fifth estate has won the 2012 Canadian Hillman Prize in Journalism.
Par Mickaël Bergeron Récemment, une amie m’a confié que ses patrons n’avaient pas considéré une candidature pour un poste parce que celle-ci n’avait de l’expérience qu’en région éloignée. On dirait que certains croient que l’on couvre que des activités communautaires. Que l’on ne fait que parler de la chicane de coq entre un conseiller et le…
The Guardian uses the story of The Three Little Pigs to demonstrate how it covers the evolution of a story, in this new advertisement.
It's a tool we all use every day, but investigative journalists need to know Google inside and out. The Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting organized a recent seminar on the subject in Toronto. Freelance writer Paul Weinberg checked it out. Here is his report.
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.