Ever wonder how much ink is spent covering election stories during campaign time? Or, which leaders — and issues — are really the darlings of the media? Well, the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada has taken the guesswork out of the game. Each week, the Institute releases an unflinching analysis of the coverage…
What happens when you ask a journalist to report on a process that, at its core, has a whole lot in common with drying paint? Traditional news values win out: you’ll get coverages on gaffes, personal dramas, controversies, and emotional outbursts. But actual reporting on nitty-gritty election issues? Not so much. Elly Alboim discusses what…
A weekly newspaper serving the Mohawks of Kahnawake is keeping company with giants. Together, with some of Canada’s biggest news organizations the tiny paper is one of the few finalists for the 2010 Michener Award.
L’avènement au pouvoir d’Alassane Ouattara en Côte d’Ivoire favorisera-t-il la liberté de presse? La semaine dernière, l’ambassadeur de Côte d’Ivoire en France, Ally Coulibaly, déclarait que «le président Ouattara tient à ce que chaque journaliste puisse faire son travail sans être inquiété». Ces propos sont pourtant loin de la réalité sur le terrain. Depuis plusieurs…
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».