The Bang-Bang Club
Salon has an interesting article on war-zone journalism, one that is unfortunately apropos today.
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Investing in investigative work
“Where the marketplace is unable to serve, that’s the role of public media,” PBS president Paula Kerger said last year. It appears PBS and NPR are putting that motto into action. This article from the Huffington Post provides details of recent investments into the kind of journalism that is shrinking in for-profit American outlets.
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Reporter’s questions to Harper drowned out by partisan supporters?
More turbulent relations between journalists and Stephen Harper on the campaign trail. A crowed of partisan supporters apparently led by Conservative staffers, created shouting chaos when CBC’s Terry Milewski pressed Harper with followup questions. The incident, in Mississauga on Saturday, followed Milewski’s questions about the links between a man acquitted in the Air India bombing…
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University of Colorado shutters Boulder J-School
Last week, the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents voted to close its School of Journalism, located at the Boulder campus. Before you start blaming it on industry tumult, though, check out this story from the Columbia Review of Journalism, which says that the outcome is not as bad as many feared it would be.
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L’Université du Colorado ferme son école de journalisme
L'école de journalisme de l'Université du Colorado fermera ses portes le 30 juin. L'établissement a décidé de mettre en place un nouveau programme d'étude appelé «Journalisme Plus» qui comprendra des cours en journalisme couplés à l'étude d'une autre matière.
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Mass tweet in protest of election results blackout?
Ah, there’s nothing like being collectively called out as a country by Jay Rosen on Twitter. As far as call-outs go, at least, it’s pretty polite: “So, is anyone in Canada organizing a mass tweet-in to protest the (absurd) ban on election night tweeting?” Rosen is, of course, referring to the made in 1938 law…
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Ivor Shapiro is Ryerson’s new School of Journalism chair
A familiar face at J-Source is Ryerson University’s new School of Journalism chair. Ivor Shapiro is the founding editor of our very own Canadian Journalism Project and its website J-Source.ca. In addition to his work at J-Source, Ivor also chairs the ethics advisory committee of the Canadian Association of Journalism.
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Libye: deux photoreporters tués, deux autres blessés
La guerre de Libye a fait deux nouvelles victimes parmi les journalistes. Le Britannique Tim Hetherington et l’Américain Chris Hondros, photographes respectivement pour Vanity Fair et Getty Images, ont tous deux été tués par un tir de mortier à Misrata, ville assiégée par les troupes du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi. Deux autres photographes qui se trouvaient…
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Toronto Star reporter detained, interrogated in China
Toronto Star reporter Bill Schiller was recently detained and interrogated by Chinese police after he took a photo of a woman being surrounded by plainclothes police in Beijing.
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TVO’s The Agenda gets a second host
Piya Chattopadhyay has signed on as a second host of TVO’s flagship current affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin. According to the TVO press release, Chattopadhyay will fill-in for Paikin, the show’s longtime anchor and senior editor, throughout the season, as well as anchor The Agenda‘s summer format. “On behalf of The Agenda Team,…