Titles and brief summaries of selected articles from the Newspaper Research Journal, Volume 29, No. 3, Summer 2008 “How Newspaper Readership Affects Political Participation” by Tien-Sung Lee and Lu Wei. NRJ summary: This analysis reveals that a decrease in newspaper readership among 17- to 24-year olds is associated with their decreasing political participation but not…
Hugo Dumas, La Presse | Après avoir été couché au tapis, le réseau TQS s’est péniblement relevé et a rajusté ses gants de boxe pour disputer un round crucial: sa programmation «de transition» ramènera-t-elle les amateurs dans l’arène télévisuelle? Ding-ding!
News organizations are hoping for a landmark ruling, after the Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear a case involving the confidentiality of journalistic sources. The case involves a supposed conflict between police criminal investigations and freedom of the press. The dispute focuses on a brown envelope sent to National Post reporter Andrew McIntosh in…
Is it within the RCMP’s mandate to stop the media from doing its job? That’s the question asked in a Canadian Press feature, with a news hook about Tory candidate Dona Cadman being whisked away from reporters. The story reported that police manhandled one reporter to stop her following Cadman. “Mounties protecting Prime Minister Stephen…
AFP, Cyberpresse | Le groupe de médias américain Time, détenteur de la marque Life, et l’agence photographique américaine Getty Images ont annoncé mardi qu’ils allaient mettre en commun leurs collections respectives de photographies sur le site internet Life.com.
Mali Ilse Paquin, La Presse | Est-ce le calme avant la tempête dans la blogosphère? Le Parlement européen doit débattre et voter à propos de l’anonymat des usagers des blogues demain. La députée estonienne Marianne Mikko est à l’origine de cette motion. Elle a affirmé en juin que les blogueurs avaient le pouvoir de “polluer”…
An Afghan journalist held in a U.S. military prison for nearly one year was reunited with his family in Kandahar City Wednesday. Excerpts from a CTV story: “U.S. officials released Jawed Yazamy, in his early 20s, Sunday after holding him for 11 months at a base in Bagram, near Kabul. “Yazamy, who was working for…
The latest report of the Canadian Internet Project seems to defy the conventional wisdom that the Internet is killing journalism. An excerpt…
Kory Teneycke, spokesman for Tory leader Stephen Harper, on the non-role of journalists: it is not a candidates’ priority to speak to media — but rather to get elected. Teneycke was quoted in the Globe and Mail in a story about how party officials whisked away B.C. Tory candidate Dona Cadman after a speech, away…
Posted by Regan Ray | The most effective way to innoculate yourself from political spin is to try to be at least as up to speed on the issues of the day as the person feeding you the party line. That entails effort on the part of the reporter, but I’ve found that the best…