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J-Source.ca sent Hugo Rodrigues to the Innovate News Conference in Toronto put on by the Canadian Association of Journalist asking him to come back with five things he learned from the array of speakers and panels. Here is his report

As the news gathering pack makes its way to B.C., J-Source’s Town Hall is digging into the ethics of Olympic reporting. Canadian journalists in particular have been dogged by charges of dodgy ethics, with some reporters carrying the torch, and others freelancing for official Olympic publications.  If that wasn’t enough to blur the line between…

When reporters can’t see past a person’s disability, Lisa Coriale writes, they can miss the real story. There’s more than one storyline to report about people with disabilities.

Les Jeux Olympiques de Vancouver 2010 seront les sixièmes de Robert Laflamme, journaliste à La Presse Canadienne. Il nous livre les secrets de la préparation en vue de cette couverture d’endurance. Robert Laflamme

With the Canadian Association of Journalists’ (CAJ) Innovate News conference right around the corner, now might be a good time to get up to speed on all of the new developments in the world of new media, especially since things tend to change and develop at break-neck speed.

Images of war and disaster are heavily sanitized in North American news. The public has become used to seeing symbols of death, not actual death. It’s a situation that leaves editors and producers grappling with horror versus taste as images from Haiti tumble in. Showing reality is important, but no one wants to stand accused…

Journalists were among the first outsiders to rush to the scene of the earthquake in Haiti. While most have described the devastation and challenges confronting survivors with professionalism and humanity, Jeff Sallot writes, some are using the assignment to promote their own celebrity.