OK, this seems ridiculous: either nobody who works for CanWest reads J-Source, or if CanWest journalists do read J-Source not one of them considers their own news service tops. That doesn’t seem believable, but see for yourself: The J-Source election poll asked, “Which major national news organization provided the best election coverage this year?” The…
“On the morning of Oct. 27, 2007, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh got the call that changed his life,” starts a Globe and Mail interview with the journalism student in Afghanistan whose death sentence was commuted for a 20-year sentence instead. His “crime,” the Globe notes, “would be nothing more than a typical classroom debate for a…
News coverage of the U.S. presidential election is noticeably more negative in tone toward Republican candidate John McCain compared to coverage of Democratic candidate Barack Obama, according to a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. A team of researchers coded stories for “tone” during the six weeks between the end…
“News and opinion mingle with alarming alacrity [online],” Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor at The New York Times, told the (U.S.) Association of National Advertisers’ annual conference, in a speech on standards and change reported by Advertising Age. “Bloggers cannot replace what we do. They are not going to open a bureau in Baghdad.” Can’t…
The price of CanWest shares on the TSX is down from a 52-week high of 8.28 to a low — at the time of this posting — of 1.10. Analysts have noticed…
Marc-André Brouillard | Pour Paul Boutin, qui signe un article dans le magazine Wired, le blogue est dépassé. La tendance serait à la brièveté, à la Twitter. Pour le journaliste de Valleywag, qui vient de signer un article pour le magazine Wired, les sites tels que Twitter, Flickr et Facebook ont donné un coup de…
Denmark’s justice ministry refused to allow seven Muslim lobby groups to take the newspaper Jyllands-Posten to the Supreme Court for publishing controversial cartoons of Prophet Muhammed, said a report by Agence France-Presse on the Vancouver Sun website. “Terrorist acts have been committed in the name of Islam, and it is not illegal for these acts…
Freedom of expression does not exist under the government that we prop up in Afghanistan. That sad truth of that was verified yet again as Reuters reported, “Afghanistan’s appeal court sentenced an Afghan journalist to 20 years in jail, commuting an earlier death sentence, for distributing an Internet article that said the Prophet Mohammad had…
Yves Chartrand, Le Journal de Montréal | Ceux qui ont vécu les derniers Sommets de la Francophonie à Bucarest et à Ouagadougou n’en reviennent pas de l’imposant dispositif de sécurité qui entoure la réunion de Québec. «Je ne savais pas que le Canada était un État policier, nous a lancé Mulumba Kabuayi, un jour naliste…
Le Réseau de la Presse Arabe (APN) | Le journal imprimé est un îlot de paix dans le chaos numérique et une «force émergente » pour les médias, qui nécessite davantage de considération,a déclaré WillamPowers, auteur de Hamlet’s Blackberry, un essai sur le pouvoir de résistance du journal, devant la Conférence annuelle de l’Association Mondiale…