Welcome to Hell: Toronto Sun
Earlier this week, the Toronto Sun raised some eyebrows when it didn't endorse Conservative candidate Tim Hudak in the Ontario provincial election.
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Hebdo: une éditrice indépendante fustige Quebecor
L'éditrice Josée Pilotte de l'hebdomadaire indépendant Accès Laurentides accuse le grand patron de Quebecor, Pierre-Karl Péladeau, d'asphyxier l'information régionale. «Ta guerre, elle ne va pas que tuer ta compétition et la presse indépendante en région… c’est la démocratie elle-même que tu assassines!», écrit-elle dans une lettre ouverte parue cette semaine.
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Canada’s showing mediocre in international right to information survey
by Melissa Shaw The first evaluation of right to information laws across 89 countries was released on September 28th, International Right to Know Day . Access Info Europe, based in Spain, and the Centre for Law and Democracy in Canada conducted the study. Canada ranked 42nd, in the middle of the group.
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Peut-on utiliser Facebook comme source?
Par Cécile Gladel L’affaire Sormany fait beaucoup jaser ces temps-ci. En particulier les journalistes, mais aussi les citoyens. On peut donc être poursuivi pour ce qu’on écrit sur Facebook? Est-ce que ce qu’on écrit sur Facebook est privé ou public? Mais que se passe-t-il quand un commentaire Facebook est rendu public sur Twitter (ou toute…
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Médias et religion: sujet méconnu et mal traité
Les médias de masse traitent très peu de sujets religieux et quand ils le font ils s'intéressent essentiellement aux situations conflictuelles contribuant ainsi à la peur de l'autre et non au vivre ensemble. C'est ainsi que plusieurs participants au Colloque Média et religion, qui se tenait lundi dans le cadre des entretiens Jacques-Cartier, ont décri…
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Do young writers care if they get paid?
Sarah Millar responds to Russell Smith's recent Globe and Mail piece, where he laments that young writers, unlike older writers, don’t seem to care if they get paid for their work. This post originally appeared on her blog, Through the Looking Glass.
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The law and ethics of investigative journalism
This month, Osgoode law professor Jamie Cameron's work will culminate in an unprecedented interdisciplinary gathering of media lawyers, journalists and scholars meeting on Friday, October 14 at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School to examine the role of—and pressures on–the media in a democratic society. Kimberley Noble reports.
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(Un)Lawful access: wiring Canada’s networks for control
Carleton University's Dwayne Winseck opines about three issues in the federal government's hands that he argues will influence an independent free media: the copyright act; the process to choose a new CRTC head; and, the 'lawful-access' legislation.This article originally appeared on Winseck's blog, Mediamorphis.
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Bringing the ha! to Hogtown
J-Source’s Rhiannon Russell caught up with The Onion’s features editor Joe Garden, in town for the satirical paper’s Toronto launch, to chat about Canada, what makes it funny, and what’s in store for the Canuck edition.
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Foreign reporting: A glamorous job?
Maria Assaf listens in as four CBC foreign correspondents demystify the challenges of foreign reporting. Anna-Maria Tremonti, Adrienne Arsenault, Peter Armstong, and cameraman Mike Heenan talk straight at the network's recent open house panel about reporting in war zones and foreign countries where nothing, it sometimes seems, is ever easy.