La Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec soutient que son rôle n’est pas de se prononcer en faveur d’une partie ou d’une autre dans le conflit de travail au Journal de Montréal, mais réclame néanmoins l’intervention du premier ministre Jean Charest. De son côté, le Secrétariat intersyndical des services publics a qualifié le 24 janvier…
A Globe and Mail columnist takes umbrage with how some foreign media portray Vancouver’s Olympics …
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.
A number of journalists filing requests for data to federal departments are finding the “data” has been converted to image files, quite literally pictures of data, prior to release. This has the potential to take access to electronic records back a decade if the trend spreads.
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…