Our associate editor, Belinda Alzner, sat down with Digital First Media CEO John Paton for an exclusive interview. The front-man of the second-largest newspaper company in the United States talks about his digital first strategy (where print comes last), on how Canadian newspapers are doing digitally (he's not impressed), and on how he has tried to change…
Par Chantal Francoeur Chacun sa méthode. Chacun sa façon de la décrire. Pour la cueillette, «tu plantes ton thermomètre et tu prends la température de la situation», explique un vétéran. Après, pour l’écriture? «Tu fais comme un sculpteur. Tu t’attaques à ton matériel comme si c’était une grosse pierre et tu tailles le bloc. Jusqu’à…
Tiger Muay Thai and MMA is looking for photography, journalism, and media production grads to intern at its camp in Thailand.
Just because mainstream coverage of climate change is waning doesn’t mean people aren’t talking about it. Candis Callison, a UBC professor with an interest in climate change coverage, argues that new media presents new opportunities for covering a topic that has traditionally posed trouble for journalists because it neither bleeds, nor leads.
Big city media, small town issues: How does Nova Scotia’s media balance the two? It doesn’t, says Greg Wade. This story, from the latest issue of the King’s Journalism Review, looks at the few resources in rural Nova Scotia communities compared to those in Halifax.
On Feb. 3, the U.N. officially declared Somalia’s famine over, providing a moment for reflection on coverage of the East African/Somali drought. This week a J-Source post asked: Is African famine too boring to cover? It’s not the first time this issue has been raised. It’s a complex story, one Brian Stewart calls “global mismanagement…
Journos got cute on Twitter for Valentine's day.
According to a new poll released yesterday by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting organization, three in four Canadians believe that Canadian media is too important to culture and national security to have foreign ownership.
Field Notes Editor Nicole Blanchett Neheli finds out why the President of the University of Guelph said media weren't reporting on African famine because they deemed it a boring story, and speaks with CBC's Brian Stewart to get his take on how journalists are covering the devastating effects of famine in Somalia.
Jennifer Ditchburn discusses how she got the story of the fake new Canadians reaffirmation ceremony at Sun News and how she handled the reaction and subsequent personal attacks from personalities at the network. Re-published from The Hill Times.