In the lead-up to its TV debut, Quebecor indulged in the joys of cross-ownership, using its papers to slag the CBC and promote Sun TV anchor Krista Erickson as a Sunshine Girl. By the end of launch day, early reviewers were disappointed by the lack of promised ‘hard news,’ as the fledging station spent its…
En seulement quelques heures, lundi soir, tous les clichés de la droite américaine, plus ou moins habilement recyclés par la droite radicale canadienne, ont été diffusés sur les ondes de Sun News Network. Collaboration spéciale: Marc-François Bernier (Ph. D.), Chaire de recherche en éthique du journalisme, Université d’Ottawa
In case you don’t make a habit of glancing at the Sunshine Girl: the new host of Sun News Network’s Canada Live is today’s not-so-scantily clad model. And, according to the paper, “Krista Erickson is rarin’ to go.”
On Friday’s Q segment, Jian Ghomeshi brought in the media panel and posed this question: [The] vast majority of eligible voters rely on media to provide highlights and analysis and to expose what might be lost in the valley of carefully crafted zingers — how well is the media doing at this task?
We at J-Source are always on the look-out for new and interesting ways of covering big stories and events. Thanks to the increasing social media storm surrounding the so-crowned Twitter election, we’ve found plenty of neat stuff. Last week, we talked to David Skok over at Globalnews.ca about his site’s debate video/Twitter analyzer mash-up. This…
Le paysage médiatique canadien est sur le point de compter un joueur de plus. La nouvelle chaîne anglophone d’information en continu de Quebecor, Sun News, entrera en ondes aujourd’hui à 16h30 (heure de l’Est). Elle promet de bousculer ses concurrentes, CBC et CTV, en misant sur la «nouvelle brute» et le «franc parler».
With less than five hours left until launch time, Sun Media’s David Akin is none too happy about some of the coverage surrounding this evening’s Sun News Network debut. Considering both Akin’s involvement in the network and the fact that many news organizations have gleefully repeated Sun TV criticisms, this is, perhaps, not very surprising.…
The New Yorker posted a long article by Jonathan Franzen that could only be accessed on its Facebook page by hitting the “like” button. That move led to a substantial increase in the number of fans of the NY page, the Poynter Institute reports. The goal is to identify new market segments to engage them…
Here’s the lead in a story the software creators Narrative Science have released in response to a challenge by the website Deadspin. Apparently the folks at Deadspin cast some aspersions on the ability of this program to replicate real copy. “Tuesday was a great day for W. Roberts, as the junior pitcher threw a perfect…
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