Après un numéro spécial «Tendances chirurgies du printemps» et un autre consacré à «la beauté intérieure», Nunuche Magazine ne récidivera pas. «Un autre Nunuche n’est pas dans mes plans», nous a confié la rédactrice en chef, Élise Gravel. L’auteure et illustratrice jeunesse souhaite revenir à ses premières amours, les livres engagés pour enfants.
CBC Radio won 26 awards at the 2011 New York Festivals Radio Program and Promotion Awards, which recognizes the world’s best radio programs. Included in the record-number of awards: a grand trophy for The Age of Persuasion, a program which explores the ways in which advertising and marketing permeates Canadians’ lives and is produced for…
The Sirius/XM Canada merger announced way back in November 2010 has now officially closed. The new company will operate as SiriusXM Canada, and trade under the symbol XSR on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It will also start out with 1.8 million subscribers, making it one of the largest subscription media entertainment companies in Canada. On…
L’Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec (AJIQ) s’active pour que le Rapport Payette ne s’empoussière pas sur une tablette. En lien avec la seconde recommandation du rapport, elle organise une soirée d’information sur la négociation collective et la Loi sur le statut de l’artiste.
Over in the UK, the Guardian has published a list of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time. We’re talking way back to 400 BC here (The Histories by Herodotus). Not only does the list span all time, it also spans all genres –including math, travel, religion, and, yes, journalism. Check out the list…
The winner of the 2010 Michener Award will be announced tonight. But what is the history behind Canada’s most prestigious journalism award for public service journalism? What news organization has won it the most times? And what kinds of stories get honoured? J-Source dishes out trivia tidbits on all things Michener.
In 2009 the story of a bear sighting in Cleveland became world famous. Not because of the bear, but because of the way the story was covered. Field Notes editor Nicole Blanchett Neheli talks to FOX reporter Todd Meany about news satire gone awry — and a story that lives on, online.
After a year of teaching with the text, J-Source asked two j-school profs what they thought of Robert Cribb, Dean Jobb, David McKie, Fred Vallance-Jones’ second edition of Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter’s Research Guide. Here’s what they had to say.
J-Source reporter Alexandra Bosanac caught up with the former Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford at the paper’s send-off party last week to chat about Blatchford’s move to Postmedia, her time at the Globe and her first column at her new gig.
The Vancouver riot aftermath gives us a sobering glimpse of the future of the Internet, some commentators are noting. Has society created the court of Facebook? First there was the phenomenon of riot tourism photos – people taking pictures of themselves in front of burning cars. Bleacher Report notes that technology has outpaced crowd violence…