An employee at a British Columbia bank inadvertently emailed a list of hundreds of people’s insurance claims to 75 provincial media outlets, reported CBC. This is a classic blooper, one that seems to be repeated every few years by some hapless worker. I worked as a desker at Canadian Press in Halifax some 20 years…
Radio France Internationale (RFI) rapporte que deux Français qui ont été enlevés en Somalie le 14 juillet dans l’hôtel où ils logeaient s’étaient faussement présentés comme des journalistes. Cette nouvelle a choqué Reporters sans frontières (RSF).
Les journaux devraient offrir l’essentiel de leur contenu gratuitement et se financer par la vente de contenus spécialisés, de produits dérivés ou de services connexes. C’est la formule proposée par Chris Anderson, rédacteur en chef du magazine Wired.
Walter Cronkite, légendaire présentateur des nouvelles du soir au réseau de télévision CBS de 1962 à 1981, s’est éteint chez lui, à New York, après une longue maladie. Il était âgé de 92 ans.
Some solid advice for moving news to a Tweet on Twitter from the Poynter Institute’s David Brewer. “Imagine if a journalist writing a breaking news story online tweeted each element of the story as soon as the information were verified.”
The Writers’ Union of Canada has sent an open letter to Gary Lunn, federal Minister of State for Sports, expressing concern about the way Chris Shaw, author of a book critical of the upcoming Vancouver Olympics, was questioned by the Integrated Securities Unit (ISU).
For many of us, journalism was once the ultimate dream job. (And even in dire times, it still is for a lucky or plucky few.) Now the dream has turned to fantasizing — about alternative employment. Fantasies such as, writes the New York Times’s Judith Warner after surveying her colleagues, turning a Master’s of Journalism…
Walter Cronkite is dead at 92, reported the New York Times. As anchor of CBS Evening News for nearly 20 years, Cronkite was an icon in American television journalism who, said the Times, “figuratively held the hand of the American public during the civil rights movement, the space race, the Vietnam war, and the impeachment…
“The Media Standards Trust (MST) and Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) event is in an ‘unconference’ style with multiple speakers contributing on a series of topics – all linked by the theme of innovation in news, whether that’s new tools, new business models or new practices.”