Après La Presse, voici que Le Devoir publie une lettre ouverte concernant le statut professionnel des travailleurs de l'information. Richard E. Langelier, docteur en droit et spécialiste des médias, écrit qu'un statut pour les journalistes professionnels s'impose au nom de la protection du public.
Ann Louise Bardach and the New York Times have been fighting for five years to stop the reporter from being ordered to testify in the pre-trial of a Cuban anti-Castro militant indicted on charges of perjury, obstruction, naturalization fraud and providing false statements to immigration authorities. Bardach has now been ordered to testify. The Reporters…
The University of Waterloo called off a speech by Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford last Friday night after a small group of protesters accusing Blatchford of racism occupied the stage. Blatchford was there to talk about her book Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us.
When you’re investigating potential wrongful convictions, a variety of skills are necessary — some journalistic, some legal. That’s why a new partnership between journalism and law students at UBC makes perfectly good sense. Cecil Rosner reports.
In Canada, culture clashes are part of landscape – so it’s no surprise when journalism gets drawn into the dance. This past week, Maclean’s magazine stood accused of fueling Asian stereotypes, not the first time the magazine has been singled out for stereotyping. Meanwhile, a public talk by author and journalist Christie Blatchford collapsed amid…
A consortium of investigative reporters has just published a unique investigation into offshore tax havens. Part of the investigation used undercover work that eventually led to the arrest of a man alleged to be involved in a money-laundering scheme. Reporters with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, which covers the Balkans and Eastern Europe,…
La survie de l'information passe par une intervention de l'État sous forme d'aide financière, selon l'éditeur franco-américain André Schiffrin. Dans son dernier essai intitulé «L'argent et les mots», il suggère la création d’un fonds indépendant pour appuyer la libre circulation des idées.
An interesting posting on why one journalist — I know, there are many — thinks the rest of us should understand Twitter at the very least and get onto it. The CBC’s John Gushue links us back to the reasons Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger believes in Twitter.
Just wondering: Did anyone else out there confuse today’s Globe with a Loblaws flyer? And is it just coincidence the dominant colour is the same one in the front-page ad?
Christie Blatchford says in today’s Globe that even before last week’s protest at the University of Waterloo about her new book, bookstores and media bookers feared controversy. She will return to the campus to speak about Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy”, she says. Three protesters, chanting “racist”, forced police to cancel her talk…