Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board has denied his refugee claim and rejected the appeal of an Iranian journalist who says he receieved death threats over an unpublished story he wrote surrounding the death of Canadian journalist in 2003.
By now, the mainstream media has made Attawapiskat a household name. But will the media eventually forget about the remote First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario as they have so many Aboriginal communities in the past, or will this one be different?
Graeme Roy, director of photography for Canadian Press has compiled some of his favourite photos of 2011.
Créé sans investisseurs ni groupe de presse, Rue89 cède 100% de son capital au fondateur et patron du groupe Nouvel Observateur, Claude Perdiel, qui chapeaute également les magazines Challenges et Sciences & Avenir. Après quatre an de lutte, les cofondateurs du site se disent «usés». Ils ont choisi de faire «le deuil d'un rêve entreprenarial». Pour la chef du service…
Selena Ross set out to discover what was behind a number of pedestrians who had been killed by snowplows in Montreal. What she found was a snow removal industry that is entrenched in a culture of collusion, bid-rigging and violence. Rhiannon Russell spoke to Ross to find out how she got the story that has…
Par Nadia Seraiocco Ventes de publicités pour les entreprises et communication non passée par le filtre du journalisme pour les autres, c’est peut-être à ça que toute cette histoire se réduit…
The Protestor may be Time magazine's choice for Newsmaker of the Year, but what about the reporters who cover the stories that make a difference? Or the editors, producers, managers and owners who make sure journalism's best are out there for Canadians. The J-Source Canadian Newsperson of 2011 award will honour a Canadian who has demonstrated excellence…
Looking back on these top story predictions for 2011, there were some hits and misses. The year held some surprises, with Jack Layton topping cbc.ca’s list of most-viewed stories. The Huff Post is gathering tweets to determine the top Canadian news story. As we head into 2012, there’s no shortage of top story lists, covering…
As journalists, we ask tough questions of our sources. But it turns out we may need to ask such questions of fellow journalists as well. Stephen Ward writes about an alarming trend he is seeing south of the border: partisan groups passing off their work as journalism. Partisan journalism simply can’t provide the value that public journalism…
Childish sniping, iffy ethics and the sheer lunacy of public feuds expose the human side of journalists. Is that wrong? Raeanne Quinton looked into the emerging trend of newsrooms issuing social media guidelines to reporters for the Ryerson Review of Journalism and recounts some infamous Twitter-battles between Toronto’s Jonathan Goldsbie and Sue Ann Levy.