This week’s Big Issue gives a tip of the hat to outgoing J-Source editor-in-chief Ivor Shapiro, who handed over the EIC reins to Janice Neil on Dec. 10. “I won’t pretend to be slipping away from the EIC’s chair without feeling a bit bereft of the child that was born and raised under my care,”…
Comme chaque année, depuis cinq ans, Influence communication vient de publier son bilan annuel de l’actualité. Cette revue médiatique est très prisée… des médias.
The title of this youtube video says it all: “CBC Translator Loses It.”
Maybe Amanda Lindhout really is not a journalist, as some critics have recently charged. Her first statement since being freed from her Somali kidnappers and arriving back home in Canada reveals that she is not nearly cynical, jaded or miserable …
La question de la relation entre les médias, la population et le gouvernement Harper refait surface dans les médias. Après les pancartes sur les chantiers de construction, les chèques émis pour des travaux d’infrastructures, les nombreux dépliants envoyés à la population, tout cela au nom du Parti Conservateur, voilà que du matériel d’information, des prises…
La semaine dernière, l’Agence France-Presse (AFP) publiait une nouvelle à l’effet que des sites internet reprennaient, parfois intégralement, des articles rédigés par la presse écrite. Selon une étude américaine commandée par le Fair syndication consortium (regroupant 1500 médias, sous la propriété d’Attributor), environ 75 000 cas ont été rapportés sur une période d’un mois, comprise entre…
Defence minister Peter MacKay is leading The Current’s ‘Ministerial Refusals’ tally. McKay has turned down four interview requests this season, and has accepted zero. Instead journalists are left to decipher documents with enough blacked out lines to make a KGB agent blush. At least we’re in good company – the House of Commons Special Committee…
Cliff Lonsdale hitchhiked at 16 into an African war zone to kick-start his journalistic career. Here he reviews the Amanda Lindhout debate and explains what he tells young journalists these days.
A ruling by the Manitoba Court of Appeal this week has some important lessons for police and the media, and the troubling tendency on the part of police agencies to use media to further their investigations. Five years ago, police forces were given a new tool called the production order. Though it bears some similarities…
Overturning a ruling by the Alberta Human Rights Commission, a Court of Queen’s Bench judge ruled last week that an anti-gay letter published in the Red Deer Advocate in 2002 was not hate speech.