In a remote corner of rural India, a new experiment using mobile phones is bringing people news made by local villagers. The BBC’s Geeta Pandey travels to Rajnandgaon district in the central state of Chhattisgarh to see who is tuning in.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression has published its first annual report on free expression in Canada, and the verdict isn’t pretty.
Media innovation centre MaRS discusses the launch of hyperlocal news project OpenFile.ca from a business and information technology perspective. “OpenFile is positioned as a collaborative newsroom–social media meets professional journalism – focusing on local news. It’s a newsroom that complements the current reality of news consumption in an increasingly digitally dominated world. The team believes…
Nieman Journalism Lab profiles Toronto-based hyperlocal news site OpenFile suggesting it’s initiative will walk the walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to tapping the potential of online journalism. “The thing about new media maxims is that, all too often, they remain just that — maxims. Smart ideas that guide our thinking, yes,…
Journalism graduate and social-media fan Kendall Walters looks at the impact Facebook, Twitter and its ilk are having on newsrooms.
Journalists Sue Capon and Amber Martin launched CountyLive.ca on May10 to serve Prince Edward County, located on the shores of Lake Ontario, about two hours east of Toronto.The pair have more than 20 years of journalistic experience in the county and hope to provide a multimedia, interactive news services for residents.
Toronto-based hyperlocal news site OpenFile.ca is featured in the Saturday Globe and Mail detailing the revolutionary journalism project.
Four Korean scholars completed the first exhaustive quantitative study of the Twittersphere and the results are interesting for social science and journalism.
An effort to establish blanket protection for Canadian journalists’ right to protect the identity of their sources has failed, but the news is not all bad. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in an 8-1 decision that there is no blanket right to protect sources in Canada. But Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) described…
The news media are challenging the wide-reaching publication ban on the murder of 8-year-old Tori Stafford, but the province of Ontario says it won’t oppose the ban.