Exposing Canada’s role in the asbestos debate
Just about everyone in Canada is aware of the health dangers posed by asbestos. So why are we still producing the stuff and exporting it around the world?
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Documents in the raw undermine propaganda
While the leaking of Afghan war documents has been criticized in some Canadian columns, on the pages of J-Source WikiLeaks is described as citizen journalism we need and a new form of asymmetrical journalism. Founder Julian Assange, a self-described ‘person of interest’ to U.S. authorities, explains his decision to provide advance viewings to select outlets.…
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Citizen vs. mainstream journalism
The credibility of what is called “citizen journalism” took a big hit this week, according to Eric Morse, a former Canadian diplomat who is now vice-chair of the Security Studies Committee at the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto. In a column in the Ottawa Citizen Morse criticized those who reported as fact information contained in…
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Citizen Journalism We Need
On Sunday three prominent publications published stories based on thousands of pages of classified U.S. military documents on the war in Afghanistan. The material came from WikiLeaks, a three-year-old, volunteer-run website whose mission is to provide a safe way for whistleblowers to make information public that someone in power didn’t want us to see. This…
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A new kind of journalism
The release of classified information about the Afghan War by WikiLeaks and three news organizations is being described by some as a new form of “assymetrical” journalism. In a column in The New York Times, David Carr says the collaboration between WikiLeaks, a whistle-blower Web site that specializes in publishing classified or secret documents, and three traditional…
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Census debates
The Canadian Association of Journalists has waded into the census debate, telling the government, “Don’t slash our census.” Indeed, Statistics Canada data has long occupied a spot in J-Source’s resource section as an important journalism tool. As well, journalism.net features a guide to Canadians statistics that highlights census data. Journalists have long relied on Stats…
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WikiLeaks challenges news practices
As military officials, world leaders and politicians debate the impact of the release of tens of thousands of raw classified field reports on the Afghan war, journalists and those who study the media are debating the impact of the release on the news business. The records released were included in a classified archive obtained by…
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Conrad Black: A trending topic
He no longer owns any newspapers but Conrad Black managed to inspire a lot of writers this week. His early release from a Florida prison prompted a flood of tweets, blog postings and opinion columns in Canada and around the world.
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G20 reports of media repression keep coming in
After the G20 folded its tent, first-hand accounts of media repression have continued being posted on J-Source. In ‘Access Denied,’ reporter Jesse Freeston describes being beaten by police. In the Student’s Lounge, there’s an account of a student journalist having to hand over his notes and camera, and in J-News, a story of cameras being…
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Thai community radio sector under pressure
Using the emergency decree, Thai authorities have recently shut down 26 community-radio stations in nine provinces and pressured six others to discontinue their services. As many as 84 community-radio stations have been blacklisted and their activities closely monitored in the latest round of political unrest, reports The Nation.