Beam me up Scotty: The struggle to cover health and science in daily news
CTV Health Reporter Karen Owen shares the challenges of covering highly complicated health and science stories within the confines of television news.
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A riot just broke out. Now what?
When the Canucks lost the cup, reporters covering the game found themselves in the middle of a riot. Dana Lacey tells us how two Vancouver newsrooms, The Province and Global TV BC, pushed information out to readers, in real time, despite tear gas, press-targeted violence and countless dead batteries.
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Big, Brash & Bold: report says to drop all telecom-media foreign ownership limits
The CD Howe Institute’s most recent report is brash, writes Dwayne Winseck, and some might dress it up as bold, but it definitely ain’t right. Why the institute’s three-page report in dropping media foreign ownership limits just doesn’t cut it. This story originally appeared on Dwayne Winseck’s blog, Mediamorphis, and a version of it also…
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Being Frank: Inside the newsroom firings, the mag’s decision to write about it, and what’s next
Halifax-based Frank Magazine fired the majority of its newsroom last week, and then wrote about it in the current issue — with typical Frank sauciness, of course. Associate J-Source editor Lauren McKeon reports on the story behind the decision to print, why the newsroom was gutted, and where Frank goes from here.
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Le pluralisme à l’italienne
Par Geneviève Gagné, collaboratrice en Italie Le Popolo Viola (Peuple Violet) a manifesté la semaine dernière devant les bureaux de la Rai pour dénoncer le manque de pluralité des opinions diffusées par le réseau public italien. Le 20 mai dernier, la chaîne a diffusé au téléjournal, le Tg1, un monologue de 17 minutes du Premier…
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Content-farming, and what it means for journalism.
“The content farms have taken journalism hackwork to a whole new level.” A highly critical look at factory journalism: online companies like Associated Media and Demand Media that generate enormous quantities of content masquerading as news. Writer Virigina Heffernan of the New York Times also reports on what Google is doing to counteract this phenomenon.
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Radio-Canada veut prévenir les compressions budgétaires
Le gouvernement conservateur promet de mettre la hache dans ses dépenses pour l’an prochain. 67 ministères et organismes doivent procéder à «un examen stratégique et fonctionnel» afin de réduire leurs dépenses de 5 à 10%. Appréhendant le coup de sabre, CBC/Radio-Canada a rendu public au début du mois une étude bouclier pour faire la preuve…
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New Twitter for Newsrooms best practices guide #tfn
Twitter wants to help you find sources, verify facts, publish stories – and – to promote yourself, “faster and faster”! So, it has published a new guide with four sections: #report, #engage, #publish and #extra, each with a variety of best practices geared towards streamlining Twitter reporting.
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When it comes to a journalist’s Twitter, who owns the account?
University of British Columbia journalism professor Alfred Hermida leads an interesting discussion on his blog, Reportr.net about journalists, Twitter, and ownership. He asks: When it comes to media branded accounts, who owns the Twitter ID?
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Sun columnists discuss: is the media in Canada conservative?
Sun columnist Mark Bonokoski has written a response to an earlier column by his Sun colleague, Warren Kinsella, in which Kinsella says the majority of Canadian media is either small- or capital-c conservative. Let’s just say Bonokoski doesn’t agree.