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…
Uthayan, a weekly Tamil newspaper, had its Toronto office vandalized over the weekend, apparently by people who disliked its reporting on a meeting between Kula Sellathurai, president of the Canada-Sri Lanka Business Council and the United Tamil Council of Canada, and Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of Sri Lanka.
American TV viewers accustomed to watching the Olympics on CBC television are upset ….
The headline sums up Clifford Stoll’s nice rant in Newsweek: “The Internet? Bah!” Or — for readers here who don’t care to click through — “When most everyone shouts, few listen.” Hear, hear.
Une station de télévision indépendante, appartenant à ses employés. N’ajustez pas votre appareil: le personnel de CHEK-TV, à Victoria (C.-B.) a bel et bien racheté la station de Canwest Global, qui était menacée de fermeture. CHEK-TV a remporté le prix de l’intégrité journalistique nouvellement créé par notre site partenaire, J-Source. L’annonce du prix est ici…
Social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook are commonly used by journalists as sources of information, according to a survey by Cision and George Washington University. More than half (56 per cent) of 371 respondents said social media was important or somewhat important for researching and producing stories. Although Google (100 per cent), corporate websites…