The New York Times has posted on its site today photographs taken in Afghanistan by Joao Silva right up to when he stepped on a landmine and lost both his legs in the subsequent explosion. There’s a gap when the mine explodes and then, true to his craft, there are the photos he took after…
The vast majority of Mexicans who apply for refugee status in Canada are rejected. Luis Horacio Najera is an exception. He spent years as an investigative reporter in the badlands along the Mexico-U.S. border, writing stories on the drug trade and corruption. Then one day he learned his name was on a death list. Claude…
North American journalists are invited to a competition for stories about the impact of violence, crime, disaster and other traumatic events on individuals, families and communities. This is open to all media: newspaper, magazine, online, radio, TV, video and multimedia. Four prizes of $5000US. Deadline Jan. 25, 2011. Hosted by the Dart Center.
WikiLeaks has placed the first batch of 251,287 U.S. embassy cables in the public domain, and government reactions range from outrage to an offer of asylum for Julian Assange. Meanwhile, J-Source contributors ask: is it transparency or treason? Or is it just Wiki-whacky? Does WikiLeaks need a code of ethics? Good questions all, and deserving…
Armed with a cellphone and enormous courage, “citizen journalists” are reporting on life in North Korea. There are some clips at that site with subtitles and a story on why some of these people are risking their lives to report stories from the country.
La Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) a reçu hier en assemblée générale le mandat d’élaborer rapidement «une proposition de reconnaissance légale d’un titre de journaliste professionnel». La proposition a été adoptée sans aucune opposition alors qu’il y a huit ans les membres de la fédération avaient massivement voté contre la création d’un statut…
So, the consensus about the latest Wikileaks posting is that we Canadians won’t get mad at Obama, even if he said nasty things about us. But some pundits are wondering if it’s journalism, including U.S. columnist Susan Milligan and the National Post’s Lorne Gunter. Without context, it seems to me to be nothing more than…
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression has released its report on allegations of police misconduct and the treatment of journalists during the G20 meeting in Toronto in June. It’s not a pretty picture.
Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail‘s award-winning correspondent in New Delhi, talks about the occupational hazards (and rewards) of being a woman foreign correspondent in Africa and India. She also offers five rules to live by. The occasion is the annual Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism at St. Thomas University in Fredericton.
I know I should have posted something before now but, to be honest, what is there to say about the CBC web redesign that hasn’t already been said about the Globe? Like, why? Or, as a colleague said, “where’s the news? I don’t like having to look for it.” When will news-website designers learn that…