La Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec a décerné son premier Prix de la Noirceur, attribué à “l’organisme public qui manifeste le moins de transparence et pose le plus d’obstacles à la diffusion de l’information”, à Hydro-Québec. Selon le jury, “Hydro-Québec a essayé de cacher des informations de grand intérêt public, a nié le problème…
Move over, This Is Spinal Tap and The Rocky Horror Picture Show –a blast from the past (sorry) has become a cult journalism classic on the Internet with a reported 350-million hits. Forty years ago Oregon journalist Paul Linnman was assigned by an ABC affiliate to report on a scheme to get rid of a…
Oh, for those good old days — just last year wasn’t it? — when analysts trumpeted the economic value of the “creative class … “
After some initial roadblocks, Al Jazeera English is on its way to Canada – good news for those of us who got hooked on their international coverage while travelling abroad. Details are in this J-Source report. With its 70 bureaus around the globe, including a proposed Canadian bureau, we can expect new voices, more news,…
How did the supposedly democratic Philippines rise to the top of the deadly international league table for the killing of journalists? Investigative journalist and author Terry Gould provided timely and shocking background to the deaths of 29 journalists there last week in an op-ed in Saturday’s Globe & Mail. The journalists were covering an attempt…
Should the media automatically observe news blackouts in all kidnapping cases? That was the question at the heart of a panel discussion organized by the Canadian Journalism Foundation at the University of Toronto’s Innis College on November 17. WATCH a video of the panel discussion. Arguing in favour was former hostage Robert Fowler, who said…
“Get over it” — best take this week on journalism angst …
“… the PMO could not be reached for comment.”’nuff said.
Mathieu Dessureault, Université Laval «Le maire Régis Labeaume a-t-il un pouvoir de décision absolu?», telle a été la question lancée par Bruno Savard, animateur de l’émission Mise à jour du 3 novembre dernier au Canal Vox de Québec. Cette prémisse a servi de base à une émission principalement axée sur l’importance du journalisme face à…
American journalist Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now on public radio, was detained and interrogated at a Canadian border crossing about whether she planned to talk about the Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 …