CBSC overwhelmed by Krista Erickson complaints
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has issued a plea on their website: Please no more complaints about Krista Erickson’s interview with Margie Gillis on Sun News.
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Morning news revival
Forget the ol’ industry doom and gloom, say panelists at the RTNDA conference in Halifax: Morning news is on a roll. David Thurton tells us why news shows at the start of the day are rising like the sun.
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Guide d’utilisation de Twitter pour les journalistes
Twitter a lancé hier un site web à l'intention des salles de nouvelles, Twitter for Newsroom ou #Tfn. Le réseau social y regroupe une série de ressources et d'outils pour accompagner les journalistes à chaque étape de leur travail, du reportage à la publication.
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Twitter for journalists
Twitter gave a big nudge to old-school journalists yesterday when it launched Twitter for Newsrooms, or #Tfn. While most media-savvy reporters already use Twitter, others wouldn’t touch it. Or, as Twitter itself puts it: “We know you come from different generations. Some are native to the pilcrow, others native to the hashtag. You began your…
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Cross-dressing at the first Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education
Read our round-up for the highlight presentation and discussion on journalism and academic cross-dressing; what banned U.S. academic Bill Ayers had to say; plus what happens when academic research hits the media in a social world.
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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…