Radio-Canada | Quebecor Media conteste la décision rendue le mois dernier par la Commission des relations du travail (CRT) concernant le conflit de 16 mois au Journal de Québec. Mercredi, l’entreprise a déposé en Cour supérieure du Québec une demande de révision judiciaire du jugement de la CRT.
Colette Brin, ProjetJ | En ce début d’année apparemment fatidique, les conjectures quant à une mort prochaine de la presse écrite quotidienne – voire du journalisme – et les conseils pour éviter le pire se multiplient. Dans le magazine Atlantic Online, le journaliste Michael Hirschorn se demande si la disparition du New York Times, fleuron…
The headline “Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent” screams out for a laff track. But it’s not a comedy line: “Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter’s notebook,” reports the Associated Press from Ohio. “The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he…
One claim Israel has on the friendship of the West is that it is a rare democracy in a troubled region, with a commitment to honour human rights — including the press rights with which we’re most concerned in this space. In Gaza, now, Israel is dishonouring both this commitment and those democrats who are…
The aboriginal “healing circle” that sentences Christopher Pauchay will be open to the media. (Pauchay pleaded guilty last fall to criminal negligence, after he drunkenly left his young daughters outside to freeze to death in a Saskatchewan blizzard.) Wrote judge Barry Morgan: “Despite the request made by some members of the community, referenced in the…
AFP/Le Devoir | New York — Faisant face, à l’instar des autres quotidiens, à une perte de ses revenus publicitaires, le New York Times est devenu hier le plus récent journal à publier des annonces publicitaires à sa une. Le quotidien vendait de l’espace publicitaire à la une de ses autres sections depuis 2006. Il…
The practice of news websites linking to blogs and other news websites is the basis of a copyright infringement lawsuit launched against The New York Times. GateHouse Media, which owns hundreds of newspapers and websites, filed a lawsuit against Boston.com, a site that links to local blogs and newspapers, and is owned by The New…
The Cedar Rapids Gazette and Medill School of Journalism are partners in a unique experiment, mixing reporting, Facebook and citizen participation. The site is called NewsMixer…
Alexandre Cayla, 4×21 | Aujourd’hui, dire que le secteur des médias d’information (et, plus particulièrement, celui de la presse écrite) va mal est presque devenu un truisme; fragmentation du public, baisse des revenus publicitaires, déplacement des petites annonces vers de sites spécialisés, comme LesPac, Craigslists ou Kijiji, les sources de ses maux sont nombreuses. Cependant,…
The Globe and Mail has closed comments on stories about Middle East issues, from the Gaza invasion by Israel to news that an Ontario union is seeking to bar Israeli academics from province’s universities if they do not explicitly condemn Israeli action in Gaza. Jim Sheppard, Executive Editor of globeandmail.com, explains:“To our readers: globeandmail.com policy…