NOUMEA, NEW CALEDONIA (2 June 2010) – The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is pleased to announce the launching of Tonga’s first community FM radio station on Niuatoputapu, a remote island in northern Tonga. The historic launch took place on 25 May this year. After the devastating tsunami late last year, SPC and the…
This week, after a J-Source tweet-based post earned a swift rebuttal from editor in chief John Stackhouse, we were reminded that 140 characters misses some important nuances and that real-time reporting can be perilous. To tweet or not to tweet? The Canadian Association of Journalists has issued draft guidelines for responsible tweeting. Verification and accuracy…
When Brian Sharwood isn’t busy at his day job, running a little start-up called HomeStars.com, which is a Trip Advisor-type site focussed on the Home Improvement business, he is busy filing stories to his hyperlocal news site Ossington Village. He moved to the Toronto neighbourhood four years ago, but only started the hyperlocal news site…
“Put in simplest terms, the troubles in Thailand are a classic clash between the rural poor – who live in places like Chiang Mai – and rich urbanites in Bangkok.” So concluded a report carried across Canadian newspapers this Saturday.It’s not that simple, of course. But neither is the Thai landscape so complicated that western…
The physical and emotional wellbeing of Canadian journalists will be front and centre on the second day of the CAJ national conference in Montreal (May 28-30). Cliff Lonsdale, president of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, will moderate two sessions focusing on difficult assignments at home and abroad. He says there are issues…
On May 28 the Canadian Association of Journalists opens its national conference amid trying times. The Winter 2010 issue of Media Magazine – the CAJ’s house journal – contains a candid look at how the organization became strapped for cash, including the fall-out of ‘the Stevie Cameron affair.’ In addition to critical financial woes, the…
The media biz was abuzz when the bankruptcy court gave Canwest the go-ahead to sell the chain’s newspapers to bond-holders, led by former tabloid publisher and Blue Jay exec Paul Godfrey. Will the move breathe life into local news, or have the papers been sold to vultures? In advance of the decision, media workers called…
La réorganisation de la plus vieille agence de presse au Canada suscite bien des questions et les réponses tardent à venir. Cette situation s’explique par le fait que «toutes les ficelles» de la restructuration ne sont pas encore attachées, a indiqué la direction. Il n’en fallait pas davantage pour lancer la spéculation. Évidemment, les difficultés…
The Canadian Newspaper Association has published its fifth annual Freedom of Information Audit, citing poor performance by the federal government in releasing information while noting an over-all improvement in the speed of responses to information requests. The addition of more municipalities to the audit – which was substantially expanded this year – partly accounted for…
The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star combined to win 13 of the 22 categories at the 61st National Newspaper Awards ceremony last night in Toronto. The Globe won seven, the Star won six, the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal in Saint John and the Ottawa Citizen each won two top awards. Single NNA certificates were awarded…