Reporters from across Canada are headed to Halifax for the second annual University of King’s College Summer School in Computer-Assisted Reporting.The school is sponsored by the Canadian Newspaper Association and is the only “boot camp” style CAR training available in Canada. CAR skills give you a leg up in today’s brutal journalism job market by…
Have we hit bottom yet? Two recent media business developments suggest not. La Presse will no longer publish on Sundays, effective June 28, reported the Globe and Mail. Standard and Poor Poor’s deleted Torstar Corp. from its Canadian composite index, effective Monday June 15. (The rating agency deleted Canwest earlier.)
Associated Press will distribute stories produced by four non-profit news organizations that specialize in investigative reporting – ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and the Center for Investigative Reporting. It’s a six-month experiment sparked in part by a desire to stem the growing void of investigative reporting resulting from financial cuts among AP’s member news organizations. Hmmm, a legacy…
Twitter may be a hot subject in many newsrooms, but in the real world … not so much. A recent survey of Canadians by Ipsos-Reid found just 26 per cent of respondents had ever heard of Twitter and only a teeny-tweety-tiny 1.45 per cent actually use it. Said a polling company spokesman: “The buzz (to) usage ratio is sort of…
With the spotlight on the detention of Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea, we are reminded of the dangers confronting young journalists working abroad for new media. As many traditional news organizations reduce their foreign coverage, some alternative ones are rushing in. For eager young journalists with little or no safety training and…
Le CRTC est-il en voie de sous-traiter une partie de ses opérations? Signe manifeste de cet intérêt apparent: sa décision de reléguer au Conseil canadien des normes en radiodiffusion (CCNR) l’étude des plaintes sur le Bye Bye présenté à Radio-Canada en décembre dernier.
Colette Brin, ProjetJ – 12 juin 2009 | Une spécialisation en économie, voilà qui vaut cher sur le marché de l’emploi journalistique. Deux bourses d’études de la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (15 000 $) et de la Fondation Reader’s Digest du Canada (5 000$) sont offertes à des candidats ayant une formation…
What, if anything, does Raitt-tapegate say about the practice of journalism? The story about cabinet minister, Lisa Raitt, the private conversation she had last January with her aide, Jasmine MacDonnell, the accidental tape recording which then fell into the hands of a reporter for the Chronicle Herald, certainly seems to be “sexy” judging by the…