In a sea of inept coverage on the Occupy protests, news corporations are now out to make more cash by doing less journalism. Shannon Rupp on the grab for free content — and the persistent myth that newspapers' raison d’être is to inform citizens. The article originally appeared on The Tyee, and is reprinted with…
In a hastily organized media conference mid-October, Ottawa’s chief medical officer of health announced a local, privately owned “non-hospital” clinic flunked proper infection control measures, resulting in the potential exposure of thousands to Hepatitis and HIV. Carleton University's Josh Greenberg on the resulting brouhaha. This post originally appeared on PR Conversations, and is reprinted with…
L'Acadie Nouvelle offre un iPad2 version Wi-Fi 16 go à ses abonnés numériques pour 29 dollars par mois pendant 36 mois. Le groupe Acadie Média en a fait l'annonce officielle ce matin, lors d'une conférence de presse à l'hôtel de ville de Dieppe, au Nouveau-Brunswick.
Well, Toronto mayor Rob Ford didn't think so.
“He's captured. He's wounded in both legs … He's been taken away by ambulance.” That’s just one quote among a flurry of electronic comments that pinged around the globe as Moammar Gadhafi met his fate. Several media outlets created rolling blogs to cover the story, including the Globe and Mail, BBC and the New York…
Ezra Levant's report on Occupy Toronto was, perhaps unsurprisingly, pretty negative.
Depuis hier, plusieurs journalistes ont été victimes de manœuvres d'intimidation alors qu'ils couvraient les perturbations sur les chantiers à Montréal et ailleurs au Québec. Le photographe de l'agence QMI, Maxime Deland, a été brutalement empoigné par deux hommes sur le chantier du Quartier des spectacles. D'autres reporters, qui suivaient comme lui un groupe de syndiqués…
De passage à Gatineau aujourd'hui, la consultation publique sur l'information d'intérêt public dans les médias bât son plein. Elle faisait escale à Québec vendredi et à Gaspé il y a deux semaines. Dans ces deux villes, les sections régionales de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) se sont présentées leur mémoire sous le…
New York Times journalist David Carr has a question for us: Why not occupy newsrooms? If bonuses are out of control on Wall Street, he writes, they're certainly off the charts for most mega media companies. He writes: [node:ad] The optics of the bonuses are far worse than the practical impact. Newspapers are asking their…
UK film maker and new media journalism Adam Westbrook has some advice for online video journalists: don't make your film boring, technically poor, and amateurish.