People followed the swine flu story closely last week. Although most “learned something” about the flu from local TV news and, to a lesser extent, cable news, the Internet came out on top when people were asked which medium was “most useful,” according to a Pew research survey.
A prank played by an Irish student who laid a trap for lazy journalists on Wikipedia — and caught some big prey around the world — proves again that journalists should check, double-check and check again all sources — especially sources on …
“As faltering brands look for new strategies, and the newspaper industry desperately searches for a way to keep a portion, if not all of its print business alive, traditional media companies are using social media to engage their audiences.”
Canwest Global Communications Corp. received another two-week extension, until May 19, in talks with debt obligations with senior lenders and U.S. bondholders. Noted the Hollywood Reporter, “The latest extension came as Canwest Global faced a Tuesday night deadline to make an overdue $30.4 million payment to 8% U.S. bondholders.” The Canwest press release is here.
“Judge Douglas Cunningham, the associate chief justice of Ontario’s Superior court, began the O’Brien trial by ruling that TV cameras feeding live to the Internet would not be permitted in his courtroom – but that the public and media in attendance can live-blog the proceedings in real time.”
Les médias, et le journalisme au premier plan, ont pris une importance sociale déterminante ces dernières années. Tout laisse croire que les transformations économiques, sociales et technologiques en cours vont accentuer le pouvoir social des médias et de leurs journalistes, tout comme leur mise en en cause constante de la part de nombreux acteurs sociaux,…
“ The 13 journalists claim that Kul Al-Watan, an online newspaper previously known as Hedayah Net, published a story saying that Saudi women journalists resort to drugs, prostitution, alcohol and unlawful relations to reach high positions in their profession. The complaints were sent to the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Culture and Information, the…
Vendredi 20 mars 2009 Une trentaine d’années après le documentaire Derrière l’image, le professeur Florian Sauvageau et le cinéaste Jacques Godbout proposent Derrière la Toile, qui traite de nouvelles pratiques journalistiques à l’heure d’Internet. Puisque le web est en constante évolution, ils ne tombent pas dans le piège de répondre à la question « ce…
Should journalists participate in the rebranding of swine flu? “It is not a ‘swine’ flu, and people need to stop calling it that,” Dave Warner of the National Pork Producers Council told CNN. “They’re ruining people’s lives.” Actually, under the rules of flu nomenclature, viruses are named after where they are first found, according to…
“American Community Newspapers (ACN) — publisher of the Stillwater (Minn.) Gazette and Plano (Texas) Star Courier plus dozens of non-dailies in four states — said late Tuesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.”