The Toronto Star's food editor Jennifer Bain won first place for her "Saucy Lady" column at the recent Association of Food Journalists Awards Competition. The competition drew 280 entries from across North America. Bain won the Best Newspaper Food Column award, submitting a column about natto, a Japanese dish of fermented soybeans, and a smoked…
In this week's edition of celebrity photos, The Globe and Mail pokes some fun at the stars with a little Occupy Wall Street humour — or it tried to anyway.
Les parlementaires sont globalement très critiques à l’égard du travail des journalistes, de la qualité de l’information qu’ils produisent et de leur apport aux débats démocratiques. C'est ce que révèle une étude menée par le Centre d'études sur les médias de l'Université Laval. Intitulée «Les parlementaires de l'Assemblée nationale et les médias: consommation et évaluation…
With Occupy Wall Street-style protests heading to Toronto's Bay Street this weekend, journalists may want to take note of their counterparts' coverage in Manhattan. As The Tyee points out, it didn't start out so great. When protesters — spurred on by urgings from Vancouver-based Adbusters magazine in July — took to the street on Sept.…
J-Source's Lauren McKeon joins the audience in Toronto as APTN's Cheryl McKenzie speaks with warmth, wit, and self-deprecation about the aboriginal network, and her own personal journey.
In the first of a two-part series, Nick Fillmore argues that freedom of expression is threatened because of the way corporate media cater to powerful neoliberals and that small-l liberal ideas that champion the public interest are missing.
In his latest documentary, The Trouble with Experts, filmmaker Josh Freed tackles the question: Should we trust the experts? J-Source's Rhiannon Russell talks with Freed about why we sometimes shouldn't, how to be more careful when interviewing experts, and which field has the most of the worst.
The Ryerson Journalism Research Centre and the Ryerson Law Research Centre have teamed up to put out a call for paper/panel proposals for its 2012 Press Freedom in Canada conference.
CBC has waded into the Don Cherry "pukes" controversy, issuing a statement that distances itself from the Hockey Night in Canada star.
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography. Rhiannon Russell asks: Who’s telling the truth and will we ever find out?