Par Vincent Marissal, chroniqueur, La Presse J'exècre les guerres de clocher médiatiques et je ne veux surtout pas «bitcher» Le Devoir, où travaillent de nombreux journalistes pour lesquels j'ai le plus grand respect. Mais mes collègues et mon journal ne méritent pas cette coulée de «bouette» provoquée par la sortie de la rédactrice du Devoir, qui admet elle-même qu'il…
Six jours après la sortie du premier article de La Presse au sujet de la gestion des fonds publics au cabinet de l'ex-chef bloquiste Gilles Duceppe, le Conseil de presse du Québec confirme avoir reçu quatre plaintes contre le quotidien de la rue Saint-Jacques. Les plaignants reprochent au journal d'avoir rapporté des informations inexactes, incomplètes et partiales.
What’s the number one issue facing Canadian media? According to Peter Steven, it’s diversity. Steven, a professor of media studies at Sheridan College in Ontario, has written a guide to Canadian media for Fernwood Publishing’s pocketbook series About Canada. Marc Edge reviews it for J-Source.
University of British Columbia School of Journalism director Peter Klein has written an open letter to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as published today by The Globe and Mail. In it, he lambasts Orbán for changes to the Hungarian constitution he recently made, which effectively squelch free press
Take in the history of newspapers at the Stop the Presses film series, held Jan. 27 until Feb. 2 in Vancouver. The Tyee editor, David Beers, sits down with Rod Mickleburgh, one of the brains behind the series, and talks about days past in the newsroom and what young journalists can learn from them.
In the wake of the controversy that has surrounded Gilles Duceppe over the past week, there has emerged a media war as well.
In Canadian media, is it just the same small group of journalists and news organizations who consume one another’s tweets and the content that said tweets contain? Or is the influence broader than that?
Par Josée Boileau, Rédactrice en chef, Le Devoir Nous sommes tous, collectivement, à la recherche du scoop, et cette quête prend parfois, comme la semaine dernière, une tournure frénétique, et des sources sont bien heureuses de nous alimenter, et nous sommes bien contents de les écouter, ce qui nous fera vendre ou remarquer. Dans cette…
J-Source is recognizing Wilf Dinnick and OpenFile as the Canadian Newsperson of the Year for his courage to put his own reputation on the line to create new and innovative approaches to engaging citizens with local, public service journalism. Dinnick, a former CBC, CTV and CNN journalist, launched the site a year-and-a-half ago to become…
The Ontario Court of Appeal has struck down a sweeping ban on publishing details of the divorce proceedings of convicted murderer Col. Russell Williams, confirming that “emotional distress and embarrassment” are insufficient grounds for supressing information about court cases. The ban was lifted on Feb. 7.