Iraqi journalist’s land entitlement
Demands for land in Iraq for “journalist citizens” are just bizarre. Reports the New York Times: “At a recent meeting with the Iraqi journalists’ union…
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France launches aid program for newspapers
The French government will spend several hundred million dollars a year to help France’s newspaper industry cope with declining ad revenue. Measures include tax breaks, increased government advertising and subsidizing free subscriptions for 18-year-olds.
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Collision of journalist/physician ethics
A doctor who wrote an essay in excruciating detail about the death of a Canadian reservist in Afghanistan was censured by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons. A college press release said “Dr. Kevin Lee Patterson has admitted that he was guilty of unethical and unprofessional conduct with respect to breaching patient confidentiality.” Patterson…
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Fund aimed at helping families of murdered fixers
UK-based Frontline Club today posted a video soliciting donations to its Fixers Fund, a fund aimed at helping the families of murdered fixers that was created last year in response to the murder of Ajmal Naqshbandi in Afghanistan…
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NFB launches online screening room
Canadian documentaries at your fingertips: That’s the promise of the newly-launched NFB Screening Room, “meant to make the NFB’s collection of films accessible to all those who want to see them,” according to the site blog…
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Crybaby foreign correspondents
“Spoiled crybabies:” that’s how Daniel Seaman, director of Israel’s Government Press Office described foreign journalists who couldn’t get into Gaza in a statement issued on Sunday…
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Ontario ruling limits bail ban to jury cases
NewsOntario’s highest court has narrowly upheld the sweeping ban on publishing any information presented at a bail hearing, except in youth court cases and for minor offences not heard by a jury. Three of five members of the Ontario Court of Appeal say the ban ensures defendants receive a fair trial, but two dissenting judges…
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Budget watchers and spin doctors collide
While lobbyists and spin doctors converge on Parliament Hill this week, Jim Stanford parses a new word in our budget lexicon: stimulus. As budget-watchers multiply, creating a federal budget is increasingly a public relations exercise, according to budget-watcher extraordinaire Bruce Doern. Indeed, the fun began early with what many journos called a well-orchestrated leak about…
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Crise rue Frontenac
Paul Cauchon, Le Devoir | Alors, voilà, c’est fait, Le Journal de Montréal est en lock-out. Le fossé était tel entre les deux parties que le conflit était inévitable. Il l’était d’autant plus que, pour la direction de l’entreprise, cette négociation n’avait rien de classique ou de «normal».
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Lock-out au Journal de Montréal: les employés du Journal de Québec solidaires
Isabelle Houde, Le Soleil | Le début du lock-out au Journal de Montréal donne une impression de déjà-vu au président du syndicat des employés du Journal de Québec, Denis Bolduc. Dès son annonce hier matin, il a appelé ses homologues montréalais pour les assurer de son appui. «On comprend ce qu’ils ont vécu ce matin.…