Participatory Journalism: an interview with Alfred Hermida
Lisa Lynch chats with Participatory Journalism co-author and UBC associate professor Alfred Hermida about citizen involvement in the news, comment policies, and newsroom innovation.
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Canadian Journalism Foundation Job Posting for Associate Editor, Canadian Journalism Project (J-Source.ca)
Canadian Journalism FoundationJob Posting for Associate Editor, Canadian Journalism Project (J-Source.ca) Full-time contract positionStart Date: November 2011Term of Contract: 1 year contractSalary: $35,000 – $40,000 / yearApplication Deadline: November 11, 2011 J-Source.ca is the number one Canadian journalism news website in the country. To ensure we keep providing news, opinion and resources about our profession…
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ONG et journalistes: une relation amour-haine
«Les ONG sont des entreprises habillées en Mère Teresa et les journalistes ne le voient pas.» C'est sur cette citation tirée du livre The Crisis Caravane de la journaliste néerlandaise Linda Polman, qu'a commencé aujourd'hui une table ronde intitulée «Les ONG et les journalistes» et organisée par le Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERIUM)…
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Ming Pao’s union fight
When workers at Ming Pao, one of Toronto’s largest Chinese daily newspapers, started to unionize this summer things got nasty fast. Management laid off union organizers and openly likened others to Maoists. Seven weeks into the resulting strike, Rhiannon Russell visits the picket line for the inside scoop.
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Where are women’s opinions?
We know women have opinions, but where are they? Last year J-Source reported on the lack of women writing for op-ed pages. Now a new website is taking aim at the a lack of female pundits. Coupled with a dearth of female magazine bylines, you have to wonder what’s going on. Is it because the…
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Sean Holman says goodbye to Public Eye
Over the last seven years anyone wanting to know more about who was pulling the levers of provincial politics in British Columbia inevitably turned to Public Eye, a unique online news source, created and doggedly maintained by journalist Sean Holman. After thousands of stories and many exclusives, Holman has now called it a day for…
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Behind Torstar’s good numbers
Torstar’s latest financials are enough to make anybody giddy: profits grew big this summer and digital sales hugely compensated for continued declines in print advertising. But Kelly Toughill tells us why all the good news means zilch for journalists.
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Five questions for Shari Graydon
Much has been made over the lack of women’s bylines in the opinion pages, but what about the number of women pontificators? We talk to Informed Opinions founder Shari Graydon about the dearth of women experts, the elusive “female voice”, and why we should care.
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L’islam sur la sellette: Oklahoma 1995 et Oslo 2011
Par Jean-Michel Landry Il y a une semaine les locaux de Charlie Hebdo ont été incendiés alors que l'hebdomadaire satirique français préparait un numéro intitulé «Charia Hebdo» qui sera en kiosque demain avec une nouvelle Une, «L'Amour plus fort que la haine». Dès les heures qui ont suivi l'attentat, les regards se sont tournés vers…
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Pierre Tourangeau, nouvel ombudsman de Radio-Canada
Actuellement, premier directeur, Contenu, Nouvelles et Actualités aux services français de CBC/Radio-Canada, Pierre Tourangeau troquera son chapeau de cadre le 14 novembre pour celui d'ombudsman. Il remplacera Julie-Miville Dechêne qui a quitté ce poste le 31 juillet pour assumer la présidence du Conseil du statut de la femme.