CTV Ottawa hits the road
CTV Ottawa's News at Six is ready to hit the road. The team will deliver its dinner hour newscast live at five locations across Eastern Ontario during the week of September 12th.
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The lede desk: curbing the cliché
Back in the 1990s, Pulitzer Prize winning journo Steve Twomey circulated a memorandum at the San Jose Mercury News from the fictional "Lede Desk". In it: Thirteen rules for curbing the cliché in lede writing.
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Can authors survive if the printed book dies?
The Guardian has an excellently-reasoned (if not extremely depressing) article about the end of books and writers on its website right now — and if you haven't read it yet, you should.
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Hebdos: Transcontinental s’étend dans l’Est du Québec
Médias Transcontinental étend sa toile dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent et en Gaspésie en acquérant la majorité des actifs de l'entreprise Avantage Consommateurs de l'Est du Québec. Cette transaction comprend les deux hebdomadaires, L'Avantage votre journal et L'Avantage gaspésien, le mensuel Le Régional, ainsi que le portail d'information régionale lavantage.qc.ca.
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Licensing journalists? Blame it on the CBC: Ezra Levant
The to-license-or-not-to-license debate is one of the most heated conversations in Canada's journalism world. Part of the anti-license faction? Well, according to Sun Media's Ezra Levant, you can point three fingers of blame: one at Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications Christine St-Pierre, one at report writer Dominique Payette, and one at the CBC.
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Wordstock 2011 cancelled
Limited interest and limited resources have forced the cancellation of Wordstock, a daylong training and development symposium that has been held at Ryerson University for the last 15 years. J-Source's Alexandra Bosanac reports.
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Colloque Médias et religion
Existe-t-il aujourd’hui une relation particulière entre les médias et ce qui touche le religieux? C'est la question qui occupera les participants au colloque Médias et religion à Montréal le 3 octobre.
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Legendary newspaper and Fifth Estate journalist and first news chief CityTV, Ron Haggart has died
Ron Haggart, a senior producer at The Fifth Estate after he was founding head of news at Citytv died Saturday in Toronto at 84, reports the Toronto Star. His broadcasting career followed years at Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and Toronto Telegram in the late ‘50s, ‘60s and early ‘70s. “Ron was one of those…
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Brian Vallee, former newspaper reporter, Fifth Estate Producer
Brian Vallee's Fifth Estate documentary about wife abuse sparked a life-long advocacy, along with books and other documentaries. Vallee, who died on July 22, was a reporter for newspapers in Toronto, Windsor and Sault Ste. Marie, is remembered in an obituary in the Globe and Mail. [node:ad]
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Kathy English on Jack Layton and the Star’s “advance obit”
When the Toronto Star learned of Jack Layton's death earlier this week, it took only 20 minutes for the website to publish the news, and a 3,000-word obituary. While that may sound like a super-human feat, it was actually the result of careful advance preparation, writes Star public editor Kathy English in a column published…