Did The Onion miss the mark with its ‘screams and gunfire’ tweet?
Not everybody thought The Onion's Thursday tweet "Breaking: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building" was very funny.
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Les quotidiens de plus en plus lus… pour le moment
La plupart des quotidiens canadiens ont vu leur lectorat augmenter entre septembre 2010 et juin 2011, selon les dernières données de NADbank. Ces chiffres parus aujourd'hui révèlent que plus de la moitié des adultes canadiens des 6 plus grandes villes du pays et d'Halifax lisent un quotidien tous les jours et qu'environ 8 sur 10…
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Vancouver police serve media warrants; demand riot footage
Police investigating Vancouver's Stanley Cup riots want media to hand over its footage — and have started to serve warrants, reports the Canadian Press. You can check out the full story, here. In the meantime, let us know: Should media hand over the footage, or fight the warrant? [node:ad]
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This just in: The journalism review index
B.C.-based journalist Stanley Tromp has created a resource for journalism students and scholars: the Journalism Review Index. In the site's own words: "There are several thousand articles on journalism topics available in archived issues of journalism review magazines around the world. These range from philosophical to practical; several are time-dated, others timeless; some are localized,…
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FOI foibles
The results of Canada’s latest freedom of information audit are in, and journalists hoping for progress since the 2007 and 2009 audits will be disappointed. As well, there have been some questionable provincial policies of late, notably in B.C. Canada’s FOI reputation has suffered internationally in recent years, with moves such as the Harper government’s…
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Quelles sont vos sources d’info locale favorites?
Loin de s'abreuver à une source d'information unique, les Américains butinent d'un média et d'une plateforme à l'autre pour s'informer sur leur communauté et leurs choix dépendent des sujets qui les intéressent, révèle une nouvelle analyse du Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Si la télévision tient toujours le haut du pavé, le…
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Media and Human Rights conference
Montreal is set to host a media and human rights conference this month. Officially dubbed, "The Promise of Media in Halting Mass Atrocities: A Conference to Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect", the conference will feature many guest speakers from the journalism, academic, political, and humanitarian fields. The list includes: Liet. General…
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Two Rogers Publishing VPs ousted
Two top Rogers Publishing executives are no longer with the company. Marketing Magazine reports that Kathryn Brownlie, senior vice-president of sales, consumer publishing, and Kerry Mitchell, vice-president, consumer publishing are out after more than nine years — each – with the company. Ken Whyte broke the news in an email sent out to employees Monday…
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Five questions for Paul Schneidereit
We talk to Canadian Association of Journalists past president Paul Schneidereit about the association's response to the professionalization issue in Quebec, its vote against creating the title, and why the issue's not dead yet.
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Covering Ontario’s election
Toronto Star staff tackled the polling controversy, the ethics of voting, and the plethora of sports cliches in political writing at a panel at Toronto's Word on the Street. J-Source's Rhiannon Russell reports.