Mohamadou Houmfa (AEM), Yaoundé, Cameroun | La présence de Radio France Internationale ne cesse de s’accroître sur le continent et dans les pays francophones où se recrute une bonne partie de son audience. Pourtant, les critiques les plus virulentes fusent du continent pour faire remarquer que la « radio mondiale » se révèle de plus…
Yves Chartrand, Journal de Montréal | Se servir d’un journaliste pour transmettre une invitation personnelle à un chef d’État «n’a rien de bizarre», estime le bureau de Jean Charest pour expliquer sa récente initiative d’utiliser un scribe de La Presse pour faire parvenir un message à Blaise Compaoré, le président du Burkina Faso. Dans l’édition…
Journalisteafricain.com est un portail destiné à ceux que le journalisme intéresse sur le continent africain : journalistes, étudiants en journalisme et simples citoyens. Le site rassemble des outils et des ressources utiles pour les journalistes dans l’exercice de leur métier au quotidien : ressources pédagogiques, informations sur des bourses et autres opportunités de perfectionnements, dossiers…
Reports the New York Times: ”Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, nearly as many print less national news, and despite new demands on newsrooms like blogs and video, most of them have smaller news staffs, according to a new study.” (So much for globalization…. or…
News The Supreme Court of Canada has described open courts as a “core value” as central to the justice system as the presumption of innocence. Yet at the trial court level in Ontario, the Ministry of the Attorney General has imposed access restrictions that arguably have made the province’s court system the least open in…
CommentaryNo one disputes that open courts are a hallmark of a democratic society. But media lawyer Alan Shanoff, writing the June 14, 2008 edition of the Law Times, says it’s time to stop paying lip service to this principle and to rethink the many roadblocks the legal system throws in the way of openness.
As a newly appointed Canwest VP of digital media, Kenneth Maclean has been tasked with growing the online versions of three newspapers. Our advice: take three aspirins and visit J-Source in the morning. Here are some recent posts on the tangled and often uneasy relationship between print media and the Internet. Blogs shut down at…
Tony Snow, best-known as a one-time White House spokesman for U.S. President George W. Bush and also a conservative editorialist, commentator and a host on a Fox cable show in the U.S., has died of cancer, age 53. Excerpts from an Associated Press story in the Globe and Mail: Said Bush, “It was a joy…
A Globe and Mail piece by Sinclair Stewart summarizes the kerfuffle involving Fox News vs the New York Times, which has been making American media news lately. The focus is on photographs of two Times reporters allegedly doctored by Fox. As Stewart said, they “have stirred a froth about journalistic ethics in media circles here,…
A one-year report card from PEN (the pdf is here) noted that seven months ago, the freedom of expression group called on the Chinese government to: • release all writers and journalists currently imprisoned and stop detaining, harassing, and censoring writers and journalists in China; • end Internet censorship and reform laws used to imprison…