Why does political columnist Chantal Hébert credit her cracked rib for being able to report accurately on the so-called Orange Crush? Read Ellin Bessner’s round-up of last week’s CAJ election post-mortem panel.
Pierre-Karl Péladeau, président et chef de la direction de Quebecor, et Sylvain Lafrance, vice-président principal de Radio-Canada, passent l’éponge sur leur confrontation judiciaire. Quebecor et Radio-Canada ont mutuellement convenu de mettre fin aux procédures judiciaires et de régler leur litige relatif à l’usage du terme “voyou” par M.Lafrance par l’émission d’un communiqué.
I confess; reading this article brought tears to my eyes. Which, I suppose makes me a definite journalistic dinosaur, but let me share with you just one paragraph about Charles Kuralt and maybe you’ll read the whole thing and, if your career harkens back to those “good old days,” you might smile at the memories:…
An editor in Australia is pursuing a unique concept for online journalism. He’s hired working journalists as editors but academics as reporters. Andrew Jaspan said he believes this will bring a ““a fact-based and editorially-independent forum” that will “unlock the knowledge and expertise of researchers and academics to provide the public with clarity and insight…
Ever wonder what happened to John Temple, editor of the Rocky Mountain News when it folded? He found a second life online and, in this Columbia Journalism Review article, talks about doing more with less — way less.
Dorothy Parvaz sat down with Al Jazeera English today to talk about her near three week ordeal.
What does the all-powerful Google search, and it algorithm, have in common with online content farms and machine-driven content? And what could it all mean for journalism and journalists? Read “Age of the Algorithm”, by Ira Basen, in this month’s Maisonneuve magazine.
Found an interesting article in The Atlantic by a Nairobi-based journalist about the case of radio journalist Joshua arap Sang, who has been accused of using his craft to incite mass violence in 2007.He’s one of six being looked at in a probe of violence following an election, which resulted in more than 1,200 Kenyans.…
On May 24,coroner Bonnie Porter will hold a full hearing into what kind of access, if any, the press can have to the exhibits shown at the Ashley Smith inquest.
In the wee hours of the morning, Al Jazeera English sent out this tweet: “DOROTHY IS FREE. Al Jazeera’s Dorothy Parvaz has been released and is safe and well in Doha”.