Have you signed up yet? This year’s convention features three days of panels, speeches and hands-on workshops. Speakers include: Philip Meyer, author of The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age, The Ottawa Citizen’s Gary Dimmock, who will provide an insider’s view of the crime beat, and his colleague, investigative reporter Glen McGregor, who…
Alright so a week has passed since the debut of Sun TV. While the network is still taking its first steps and there are, surely, more things to come, we still want to know: What did everyone think of the first seven days? Well, one thing’s for sure: few left their screens overly impressed, or…
What happens when social media meets traditional election coverage? Come to tonight’s CJF Forum to find out. The Q&A panel features Mark Blevis, a digital public affairs strategist whose data crunching has been sourced by the Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and others; Chris Boutet, senior producer of digital media at the National Post;…
Sur le modèle du Huffington Post, le magazine économique Forbes.com compte lui aussi constituer une équipe de blogueurs non rémunérés. Cependant, alors même qu’un collaborateur du HuffPo estime que le site devrait reverser une partie des gains de sa fusion avec AOL à ses bénévoles, Forbes.com envisage de mettre en vente les textes de ses…
Week three was supposed to be when things took off: media would know a whole lot more, and the election narrative would become clearer — and hopefully more dramatic. However, by week’s end not much had changed. Elly Alboim discusses the media’s search for good narrative when it comes to reporting Election 2011.
Mainstream media loves reporting on the ups and downs of election polls, often turning politics into a spectator sport. Unfortunately, when the media focuses on the horse race, weightier issues become back-page material. Erin James-Abra asks whether the media is really arming voters with the information they’ll need on May 2nd — and if polls…
The aftermath of this year’s leaders’ debate was a little same ol’: frentic coverage focused on who won, who didn’t answer the questions, who did (did anyone?). In this quick-and-dirty coverage many journalists ignored what drove the whole affair: the questions posed by so-called “ordinary Canadians” on tape. One journalist didn’t; for two days after…
On April 15, the London Free Press launched an initiative to help the community better interact with the paper. Citizens can now contact the paper with ideas, and the paper will provide an editor to help bring those stories to print — with the citizen’s byline. Innovative, right? Only if you plan on squelching the…
Industry guru D.B Scott has won the 2010 Award for Outstanding Achievement, granted each year by the National Magazine Awards Foundation. As the NMAF presser says: “With a dynamic career spanning four decades, D.B. Scott has earned his reputation as an eminent authority in the Canadian magazine industry. [His] experience is vast and varied.” Scott…
Disclosure: This radio clip link is for a show done by my friend, Sean Holman, and includes my husband, Alan Bass, who has been researching and speaking on professionalizing journalism for several years. Given the recent move in Quebec and some chatter on the Canadian Association of Journalists list, I thought some people might be…