The Calgary Herald is creating a giant digital rolodex with its new Be a Source program. We asked digital engagement editor Tom Babin to tell us about the new program that turns its readers into sources and how it can help journalists.
If you hear the word ‘hacker’ and all you can think is News of the World scandal, stop cringing. Cecil Rosner explains how working with hackers who mine for publicly available data can be beneficial to not-so-tech-savvy journalists.
We have all heard about computer-assisted reporting. Can hacker-assisted reporting be the next great tool for the investigative journalist?
Michelle Siu, a freelance photographer based in Toronto, will be joining the Canadian Press on a paid six-week internship this summer after being announced as the winner of the Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award.
Ezra Levant and Jennifer Ditchburn had a bit of a spat on Twitter yesterday after it was reported by Toronto Sun's David Akin that the Sun News producer who proposed "faking" a citizenship ceremony last October now works for CBC, where Ditchburn occassionally appears as a panelist.
Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern’s collection Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada is a series of essays by Canadian media and communications scholars on the past, present and future of Canadian communication rights. Expanding the notion of ‘the right to communicate’ beyond a conversation about freedom of expression, the authors…
Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern’s collection Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada is a series of essays by Canadian media and communications scholars on the past, present and future of Canadian communication rights. Expanding the notion of ‘the right to communicate’ beyond a conversation about freedom of expression, the…
Fermer les salles de nouvelles de TQS au printemps 2008 était une violation des conventions collectives en vigueur et Remstar devra dédommager pleinement les artisans de l'information de la chaîne qu'elle a licenciés en bloc. Après une longue bataille légale, la Cour suprême a rejeté ce matin l'ultime demande d'appel de la société des frères…
The Canadian Press has reported that at least six federal bureaucrats stood in as “new Canadians” in a citizenship reaffirmation ceremony at Sun TV studios last October.
Le Conseil de presse du Québec a émis un blâme il y a quelques jours contre le contenu général de la revue Bébé magazine pour avoir diffusé de la publicité déguisée en information. Le tribunal d'honneur de la profession juge que bien qu'elle se présente comme un produit journalistique, la revue est, de A à Z, une…