This week’s Resolute Bay plane crash has journalists scrambling for reactions from survivors and mourners. Right or wrong, the trauma interview is an increasingly common assignment. Some wonder if all this ‘compassion coverage’ has a down side. In particular, interviewing children about traumatic events raises cautions. There is also the ongoing question of horror versus…
This week’s Resolute Bay plane crash has journalists scrambling for reactions from survivors and mourners. Right or wrong, the trauma interview is an increasingly common assignment. Some wonder if all this ‘compassion coverage’ has a down side. In particular, interviewing children about traumatic events raises cautions. There is also the ongoing question of horror versus…
If you haven't already, be sure to check out Gayle MacDonald's Globe and Mail interview with Tony Burman, of Al Jazeera English and CBC fame, and also the newest Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair at Ryerson University.
Né en 2009, sous l'impulsion de Hugo Prévost et Mathieu Labrie, le site Pieuvre.ca s'est doté ces dernières semaines d'un nouveau look. Ses fondateurs souhaitaient évacuer l'étiquette de blogue qui leur collait aux tentacules et offrir une plateforme plus professionnelle à leur quinzaine de collaborateurs et à leurs quelque 10 000 visiteurs uniques mensuels. ProjetJ.ca…
Par Philippe Lépine Alors que l'utilisation des technologies de l'information s'intensifie, de nouveaux défis s'imposent aux médias. Divers conférenciers ont pris le pouls de la situation au cours du 36e Congrès annuel de l'Association des économistes du Québec (ASDEQ) en mai dernier. Tous ont statué que les médias québécois ont sérieusement besoin d'un nouveau modèle…
Christie Blatchford's column on the media coverage of Jack Layton's death is bold, provocative, and either crass or brave, depending on who's talking, but does she have a point?
La ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine, Christine St-Pierre, a annoncé ce matin la tenue d'une consultation publique sur l'information d'intérêt public dans les médias. Elle donnait ainsi suite au rapport du Groupe de travail sur le journalisme et l'avenir de l'information, piloté par la professeure Dominique Payette, qui lui…
Former Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe's "whirlwind business relationship" with Radio-Canada isn't likely to fade from public discourse any time soon, writes Michael Taube in a recent Ottawa Citizen column.
Staying alive in a war zone is obviously a good idea. Less obvious is how to achieve that result. Veteran correspondents and photographers build their own, sometimes quirky, reserves of experience. Rosie Garthwaite, a correspondent with Al Jazeera English, drew on her own and that of many others to compile her new book "How to…
This October, Montreal-based career journalist and businessman Warren Perley is launching a new online business model, beststory.ca, for freelance journalists who love the written word and wish to indulge that passion to the exclusion of video. He tells J-Source the genesis and rationale of this new business model.