What’s it like to interview someone with three decades worth of experience asking their own questions? For the answer to this question, check out Jian Ghomeshi’s interview with Hana Gartner on Q. The veteran journo just can’t help herself.
The Prime Minister is in the hospital? Thirty bodies in a Texas home? You can file both them under news that wasn’t. As The Current‘s Anna Maria Tremonti said on Friday’s show, “fake news never had it so good.” Common denominator: Twitter.
Winners of the National Magazine Awards were announced Friday night at the Carlu in Toronto. MoneySense took home magazine of the year (print). Digital magazine of the year went to Maclean’s. The Walrus led the pack with six gold awards, and three silver. Report on Business also won nine awards (three gold, six silver). Swerve,…
Judy Jackson’s new documentary on war-related trauma, War in the Mind, will be aired on TVO next month. The Salt Spring Island filmmaker, who’s had her own experience with PTSD, looks at a unique UBC program for Canadian soldiers who served in Afghanistan, and returned with serious trauma issues. A review by Claude Adams.
Now, here’s a breath of fresh air. Global News is going to make data it obtains for its own projects available to the public. It has already posted the data it used for an a mapping project on dangerous intersections in Toronto.
Par Annie LabrecqueIl y a trois mois, le 11 mars, le Japon était frappé par un puissant séisme de magnitude 9,0, suivi d’un tsunami qui a dévasté les côtes. Mais les yeux des médias étaient rivés sur la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima, d’où s’échappait des doses élevées de radioactivité. Lorsque Étienne Leblanc, journaliste radio à…
Academics, practitioners, and others with a demonstrated interest in these issues are invited to submit papers for presentation at Journalism Strategies, a McGill Conference whose purpose is to to re-imagine the role of journalism in Canada and ways to use media policies to support it. The organizers invite you paper proposals on one of the…
A Toronto police officer who bullied a reporter in court this April should be docked eight hours’ pay, concluded an internal Toronto police inquiry.
When Krista Erickson’ recently interviewed world-renowned Canadian dancer Margie Gillis on Sun TV, the result was raw comedy, writes Globe and Mail columnist John Doyle.
Veteran journalist Ron Kronstein is returning to the Maritimes as a new host for Global News. The move is part of Shaw Media’s re-launch of Global Maritimes, and its news programs.