The next global gathering of community radio broadcasters has been set for La Plata, Argentina, Nov. 8-13. AMARC 10 will bring together more than 400 community broadcasters and stakeholders from over 100 countries in all regions of the world. According to the conference invitation, “It will be a place to reflect on the growth of…
Predictions of the demise of the daily newspaper are based on myths that don’t stand scrutiny, argues David Estok, former editor-in-chief of the Hamilton Spectator. Newspapers are becoming more focused and more efficient but they will survive the current crisis, because what they do still matters.
Americans who spend a lot of time on Fox news are also more likely than most to visit the New York Times, suggests a new study by two business professors in Chicago. Their findings counter the received wisdom that the Internet creates citizens isolated in silos, reading only news they choose. “We find no evidence…
It’s Digital Detox Week – so it’s timely that one of questions surfacing on J-Source is whether today’s multi-tasking journalists spend too much time chattering, and not enough time investigating. With all the Facebooking and tweeting going on in the newsroom, we still need to get off our keypads and go find out what’s going…
An academic study on the re-election of corrupt politicians concludes investigative journalism is the solution. But it warns the disappearance of a business model for “a free and aggressive press” does not bode well for political accountability.
Restrictions on journalists — both American and from other countries — “have become a common practice for the Obama White House,” reports the Washington Post.Dana Milbank, writing about the treatment of the press by the American president during the Nuclear Security Summit, called it “a clinic for some of the world’s greatest dictators in how…
The Project Hero scholarship program was rolling out smoothly across the country until it hit the University of Regina. In a letter to university administrators, 16 U of R professors questioned the language behind the scholarship and called for a university-sponsored public forum on Canada’s role in Afghanistan. In subsequent media interviews, the professors argued…
A new report questions whether the notion of transparent government, accountable to and for voters, exists in Canada. Journalists have long found ourselves blocked by Stephen Harper’s government. Today in a report to Parliament Interim Access to Information Commissionier Suzanne Legault said “growing delays are eroding Canadians’ right to obtain documents from their government.” So…
Forget the crossword, Sudoko, Tetris — you can now play the newspaper integrity game, voting (or not) as many times as you wish for the newspaper of your choice. At the time of posting, Canada’s Langley Advance and National Post were among the top-ranked newspapers in the world. Seriously.
Are old-school newshounds mythical creatures? wonders A.O. Scott in a New York Times review of a series on journalism films at Film Forum in New York. The series, suggests Scott, evokes “the quintessence of print journalism in all its inky, hectic glory.” Real, or not, it’s nostalgia — always a popular draw.