Thierry Ternisien, MediaPart | Le concept de journalisme citoyen, porté sous des formes diverses par de nombreux sites citoyen, me parait, pour au moins trois raisons, être une impasse. Restant dans le paradigme actuel du journalisme, il met au centre de son projet la collecte et la vérification de l’information. Or, ce dont nous souffrons…
Radio-Canada | La tournée des régions du Conseil de presse s’est terminée, mercredi [18 juin 2008] à Gaspé, sur une remise en question de la couverture de l’actualité régionale par les grands médias nationaux.
Data on young people’s news habits has been mostly pessimistic, to the point where delegates to the recent World Conference of Newspaper Editors wondered if it may not be worth the energy to chase young readers. But young people are an audience in search of substance according to a recent post on J-Source by Alan…
Researchers and others should check out Policy Archive, a new searchable, indexed website that hosts public policy research papers from more than 220 think tanks and research institutes. The site – created by the Center for Governmental Studies and the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis University Library – has already collected 12,000 policy and research…
The explosion of news about deceased U.S. broadcaster Tim Russert (at one point in the week a Google news search returned some 10,000 hits) reminds me of how O.J. Simpson burst into the global public consciousness in 1994 via a live televised police chase of Simpson in his white Bronco. Simpson, I maintain, was previously…
“Why,” asks the Globe and Mail, “are newshounds around the world so enraptured by a grim West Coast story about human flotsam?” OK, it’s a rhetorical question — every reporter and reader knows it’s an engaging story; the fact that it’s engaging is why the Globe devotes yet more ink to a story about the…
Vanity Fair has published a delightfully visual yet highly functional introduction to the busy American newsy blog scene. Media-politics-celebrity blogs are situated in quadrants according to how they rank along continua of news-opinion content and earnest-scurrilous tone. You can hover your mouse pointer over each blog for a mini-review and click to visit the ones…
All news is local – that’s a truism of journalism. Does the Internet change that? Do newspapers expand their notion of community when their potential readership goes global? Are news nets cast further to attract a wider readership? Those are among the questions researchers involved in the Geography of News Project are working to answer.…
The American National Council on Public Polls has a piece on its website that looks like a worthwhile read: 20 Questions A Journalist Should Ask About Poll Results. Hat tip to the U.S. discussion list,IRE-L, of Investigative Reporters and Editors.
News and CommentaryYouths convicted of serious crimes like murder, manslaughter and violent sexual assaults will no longer automatically lose their anonymity. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in May that the publication ban on an offender’s name can be lifted only if removing the ban is justified. Previously, the Youth Criminal Justice Act required the…