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…
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.
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…
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.
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,…
The Association of Electronic Journalists (RTNDA Canada) has announced its B.C. regional award recipients. The awards recognize excellence in electronic journalism in the B.C region and will be presented at RTNDA’s annual awards show in Vancouver on May 28.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May says she wasn’t just excluded from the leaders’ debate. Nope, she believes the entire mainstream media has decided to keep the Green’s out of the election conversation. At a recent campaign stop in Kamloops, B.C., May noted that, unlike in 2008’s election, no national newspapers or television crews had joined…
Sure, mainstream media may be struggling for access in Harper’s five question world, but how bad is it for the smaller players? Turns out, if you’re a member of the ethnic media, the answer is not so bad.
Just when you thought you could finally get NOW magazine’s nearly-naked picture of Rob Ford out of your head, it’s back. A couple weeks ago, NOW magazine received national and international attention after someone at Toronto City Hall’s custodial services department allegedly ordered all copies of the publication’s March 31-April 6 edition — featuring a…
TV is still king when it comes to Canadians’ preferred choice for accessing the news, but only just. Indeed, according to a new study by the Canadian Media Research Consortium, while the majority of Canadians say they still prefer to tune into their TVs, most also say they find more interesting news items online. Is…