“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.
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…
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.
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?
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.
After more than a month, less than a handful of tweets and not much else, fired Rogers Sportsnet on-air host Damian Goddard broke his silence — first on Twitter, and then just about everywhere else.
Rencontre avec Danielle Stanton par Audrey Desrochers – texte paru dans l'Indépendant, bulletin d'information mensuel de l'AJIQ. «Il faut ben manger…», affirme, d’un ton primesautier, la journaliste Danielle Stanton. Pourtant, elle ne s’est pas gênée pour refuser, récemment, un contrat qu’elle jugeait déraisonnable. Il s’agissait d’écrire un dossier complet, comprenant plusieurs volets, pour un magazine…
After 49 years under the acronym RTNDA, the Association of Electronic Journalists has voted to change its name.
The Canadian Association of Electronic Journalists, RTNDA Canada, announced its award winners June 25 in Halifax. The awards honour top news stories and programming in Canadian radio and TV. Regional awards were also handed out for the Atlantic provinces; awards ceremonies have also been held in Vancouver, Toronto, and Saskatoon to honour regional winners in…
After 42 years of reporting on the weather, veteran CTV News forecaster Dave Macdonald is retiring.