When Anna Rodrigues looked around for Canadian journalism schools running hyperlocal blogs back in 2010, she couldn’t find any. How the Durham College instructor launched her own.
Patricia Graham is exiting the editor's desk at The Vancouver Sun, a spot she's had for eight years, to become vice-president of digital at the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia which publishes The Sun.
Now that the clip of Mary Walsh playing Marg Delahunty has been released some are wondering if Toronto mayor Rob Ford told the truth about the stunt.
Yes, there are threats: government secrecy, terrorism, regulation of new media. Nakita Singh Hans gives us a sneak peak at next year's Press Freedom in Canada conference.
Rhiannon Russell listens in as journalists from the Hamilton Spectator, Toronto Star, London Free Press and CTV discuss unions in the newsroom, publisher influence and working for free.
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…