I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes. News is all around me … With apologies to the Troggs (and some poetic licence), that, in essence, is how the latest Pew Internet survey describes the new reality of how news is distributed and consumed. Using multiple devices, increasingly including smart-phones, people plug…
The record number of Olympic gold medals won by Canada, and a jubilant post-games party that was largely problem-free — left some media critics” red-faced,” impressed, and startled, reported a Canwest writer ….
The Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma is offering a new academic fellowship, open to journalism teachers at the college or university level across North America. The centre notes that young – even student – reporters are often assigned to cover crime, accidents and other local or campus stories which can have negative psychological impacts…
Sports journalists have taken some knocks lately. Charges of ethical lapses aren’t limited to Olympic coverage. Sports journalists have long been accused of being ‘wannabes’ who identify too closely with athletes. Some even argue that ‘sports journalism’ is an oxymoron. In this Town Hall post, journalists respond to the critics. Assuredly, it’s not all torch-bearing…
Andy Barrie has been a household name for almost a generation of CBC listeners in Toronto. As of Monday March 1, he will be gone …
Thirty years ago, The St. Petersburg Times newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Church of Scientology. The religious organization, which evidently considered the newspaper’s coverage unfair, recently hired investigators to investigate, and then …
Les médias ne font pas assez de place aux voix féminines, aux discours savants des sciences humaines, aux activistes? Ou serait-ce que ces voix ne s’expriment pas assez fort ni assez souvent? Qu’à cela ne tienne, une formation sur mesure vise à favoriser la publication de textes d’opinion par ces « marginalisées » de l’espace…
La question fait régulièrement l’objet de débats : l’information municipale se porte mal. La couverture des régions représente une partie du problème, la manière dont s’exerce cette couverture en est une autre. Potentats locaux, difficultés d’accès, liens viciés entre journalisme et relations publiques, la liste pourrait être longue et les anecdotes tout aussi croustillantes que…
The Atlantic wondered: How do other people deal with the torrent of information? It asked Steve Coll, Nicholas Lemann, James Gibney, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeffrey Goldberg and Marc Ambinder, and dished up the details of their media diets at theAtlanticWire. What would a Canadian diet include?
Journalist Judith Warner thought she had a great story to tell about the overmedication of American youth. And then her research undermined her premise…