In one of its first tests in the courts, the new responsible journalism defence has helped an Ontario news website defeat a libel action launched by a man named in a police fraud alert. When the defence was created by the Supreme Court in 2009, J-Source contributors weighed in. Cec Rosner tackled the question ‘What…
«L’avenir est aux contenus gratuits, mais parfumés», c’est-à-dire produits directement pour répondre aux besoins des annonceurs. C’est le point de vue qu’a défendu le cofondateur de Bombe.tv, Maxime Fleurant lors d’une discussion sur la monétisation des contenus la semaine dernière à l’occasion des RDV Média Infopresse. La marque de chaussures Palladium, par exemple, finance la…
The Dutch government is moving to reinforce the right of journalists to protect sources after a major ruling by the European Community’s top human-rights court. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that a Dutch law allowing a prosecutor to order journalists to divulge sources was in violation of…
Canada’s leading newspapers and media law experts have condemned a sweeping publication ban imposed April 30 on a hearing in the Tori Stafford murder case. Justice Dougald McDermid of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice prohibited the media from reporting what happened when Terri-Lynne McClintic, one of two people accused of the eight-year-old’s 2009 abduction and…
NEWS – In what may be the first case of its kind involving comments posted to a Canadian media website, the Halifax weekly The Coast has been ordered to identify seven people who made allegedly defamatory statements tagged to a story about racism in the city’s fire department. As well, Google was ordered to identify…
CommentaryThe Supreme Court of Canada’s refusal to protect the National Post’s confidential source and grant constitutional protection to all journalists’ sources is “disappointing,” writes Toronto media lawyer Brian MacLeod Rogers. But the door is open to future privilege claims and the court has clearly recognized the importance of confidential sources to investigative journalism and the…
Commentary Don’t let the negative headlines get you down – there’s good news for journalists in the the Supreme Court of Canada’s May 7 ruling in the case of the National Post, its former reporter Andrew McIntosh, and the possibly forged document at the heart of a nine-year legal battle to protect a source. Law…
NewsThe new responsible journalism defence has helped an Ontario news website defeat a libel action launched by a man named in a police fraud alert. In one of the first applications of the defence (created by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2009), a jury ruled SooToday.com acted responsibly when it published the alert, even…
The Squamish Reporter, a local news website, says it was threatened with a lawsuit and asked to reveal the source of a leaked Fire Underwriters Survey after publishing a news story about the survey.
La chaîne sportive TSN et plusieurs médias, dont CTV, The Gazette, le Toronto Sun et le Toronto Star, ont commis toute une bourde vendredi en annonçant la mort de l’ancien entraîneur du Canadien de Montréal, Pat Burns. Tous ont publié la nouvelle en se basant sur une rumeur et une seule source.