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.
Most journalists strive never to become part of the story — except in life-or-death cases when our humanity demands action. The Toronto Star has decided that climate change is such a case — it joined 55 other newspapers around the world to demand action, not in an editorial, but in a front-page story. Excerpt: “Today…
Climate-Gate has fuelled extra interest in the UN Climate Change Conference. Ethical journalists may hold themselves above opening private mail, but there’s been no shortage of coverage since someone else did the dirty work. “Does the pendulum in the quest for ‘balance’ in covering global warming now shift back?” is one question posed in Town…
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma has announced a January 29th deadline for the 2010 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. The awards “recognize newspaper, magazine, online, radio, television, video and multimedia journalism that goes beyond the ordinary in reporting on trauma.” For full information, including guidelines, application forms and a listing…
Recent articles of interest published in scholarly journals: “Evaluating Journalism: Towards an assessment framework for the practice of journalism,” by Ivor Shapiro, Journalism Practice 4 (2), April 2010 “The Globe on Saturday, The World on Sunday: Toronto weekend editions and the influence of the American Sunday paper, 1886-1895“, by Sandra Gabriele and Paul Moore, Canadian…
Paul Cauchon nous signale la parution d’Histoire de la caricature au Québec, un ouvrage signé Robert Aird et Mira Falardeau, qui retrace à coups de crayon inspirés l’évolution du Québec par ses personnalités marquantes. Outre les transformations de la société, on y découvre aussi ceux du métier qui se décline lui aussi, en 2009, sur…