“In a scene reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Birds, a giant seagull stole the show on the Channel Nine News in Melbourne,” reported Australian online news.com.au. “The massively magnified bird walked across a real-time projection of the Melbourne cityscape behind newsreader Peter Hitchener’s head while he was reading a story about a 27-year-old…
The Toronto Star spun Stephen Harper’s alleged admission — “I don’t like to watch Canadian news” — into an entire column including reaction and confirmation about whether the prime minister takes in Canadian media. The quote: “I watched the last several elections in the United States very closely. I tend to watch mainly American news…
The U.S. White House and Fox News are in a de facto war. Now journalists are talking about whether to deal with the Fox News team as colleagues, or with the whole organization as a political player bent on attacking real fair and balanced journalism …
« Les journalistes vont-ils devenir des marques » avec Internet ? C’est la question posée par Xavier Ternisien dans Le Monde en s’inspirant d’un article publié par Michael Arrington dans le blogue qu’il a fondé, TechCrunch.
Backed by a foundation and a public TV station, Chicago journalists create a new venture to produce local news. One of the first clients is The New York Times which will print two pages of local news in a Chicago edition, going head-to-head with struggling Chicago newspapers.
Le consortium de groupes de presse créé par la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec attend maintenant la décision de la Cour suprême, en lien avec l’affaire Ma Chouette, où le journaliste, Daniel Leblanc, maintient son devoir de protéger la source anonyme qui lui a permis d’étayer ses reportages dans le Globe & Mail sur…
Two of the most damaging political scandals of the last decade, the sponsorship affair and Shawinigate, involved the use of insider whistleblower information. In both cases, investigative reporters are now fighting for the right to continue protecting the identity of those whistleblowers. The decision rests with the Supreme Court of Canada.
A case now being heard in the Supreme Court of Canada will determine the fate of whistleblowers — and will have a major impact on press freedoms in Canada. Lawyers for media outlets and press organizations are in court arguing against an attempt by a Montreal ad firm to force Daniel Leblanc, a reporter with…
“Can vice save journalism?” asks Maureen Dowd. “We need life rafts,” she wrote in The New York Times. “Publications once buoyed by splashy ads evoking drinking and sex are now conjuring ways to use drinking and sex to subsidize the news.” Yay! Wine clubs and dating services. That’s our ticket to survival!
Le milieu municipal montréalais est sur la sellette en raison d’allégations de malversation et de corruption. L’information provient principalement de sources anonymes. Jusqu’où le recours à ce type de source est-il garant du droit du public à l’information? Comment éviter d’être manipulés à son tour? Des questions auxquelles répond Marc-François Bernier, de la Chaire de…