Is Facebook suffering from Twitter envy? In an attempt to make the social networking site more prevalent among journalists — and to cinch the newsroom crown — Facebook has launched a new page dubbed “Journalists on Facebook”, as well as a new meet-up program.
Le départ du président sortant de la Côte d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, et la prise de pouvoir de son rival, Alassane Ouattara, ne sont pas une garantie de sécurité pour les journalistes ivoiriens. Depuis le nord du pays, où il a fui avec plusieurs de ses collègues, le secrétaire général du Comité ivoirien pour la protection…
Le président de Quebecor, propriétaire du Journal de Montréal, a accordé ce matin une rare entrevue à l'antenne du 98,5FM. L'animateur de l'émission matinale, Paul Arcand, l'a questionné pendant près d'une demi-heure sur son investissement dans l'amphithéâtre de Québec, mais surtout sur le conflit de travail qui a affecté le navire amiral de son empire…
Halifax-based Saltscapes magazine is branching out into the restaurant biz. The local mag first talked about extending the brand five years ago, but loyal readers won’t have long to wait now.
CBC’s The House has enlisted veteran journalists Tom Clark and Kevin Newman to help “cut through the spin.” The two will appear on air every Saturday until the election closes.
Twitter may have existed during 2008’s campaign but it was nowhere near as ubiquitous as it is now. Indeed, as Kathleen Petty quips in the most recent edition of CBC’s The House, “The campaign wasn’t even underway when people started referring to it as the Twitter campaign.” But how exactly is what’s happening in the…
The Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting has received a whopping $37,000 from the Montreal-based Chawkers Foundation.
Simon Houpt says just weeks before the Sun is about to launch its own tv station, the newspaper is writing a number of critical articles about the CBC, accusing it of political bias. He reports in The Globe and Mail that the half dozen articles in the Sun chain of newspapers “are helping to fuel…
Surprise, surprise: Online pay walls may not be the stuff of publishers’ dreams, after all. At least, not in Canada. According to a recently released study by the Canadian Media Research Consortium, more than 90 per cent of Canadians who get their news online say they wouldn’t pay if their favourite sites started charging for…
Les propos de Luc Lavoie, architecte de Sun News, à notre micro, n’en finissent pas de faire sourciller. Le chroniqueur média du Devoir, Stéphane Baillargeon, y consacre ce matin une chronique complète intitulée «Vers le populisme».