Isabelle Porter, Le Devoir (sur abonnement) | Les chaînes de télévision québécoises n’ont pas couvert la mission canadienne en Afghanistan de la même manière que leurs équivalents canadiens-anglais, selon une petite étude rendue publique hier lors du Congrès de l’Acfas. «Si le traitement est différent, c’est que les médias s’adressent à des groupes distincts qui…
Practising reporters and students of journalism have a new guide through the complexities of investigative reporting in Canada. Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter’s Research Guide is the work of Robert Cribb, Dean Jobb, David McKrie and Fred Vallance-Jones, each an investigative reporter and professor of journalism. Digging Deeper offers practical, effective ways to access information…
CAIR’s passing will be mourned by regular visitors to the CAIRS online data base, currently managed by David McKie. Originally viewed as a threat to access, the Coordination of Access to Information Requests System became a pool of story ideas and sources for enterprising journos. Beyond our own journalistic interests, the decision to kill CAIRS…
The Globe and Mail won six of the 21 awards at the 59th National Newspaper Awards, announced May 9. La Presse of Montreal was next with five awards; the Ottawa Citizen and the Toronto Star earned two each while the Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free Press, National Post, Saint John Telegraph-Journal, Prince George Citizen, and The…
WHOIS searches on .ca domain names are about to get a whole lot less informative. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority is slapping on new privacy restrictions. The name of the registrant, plus the contact information for sites registered to individuals will no longer be available via WHOIS. That means journalists researching who is behind a site…
The Toronto Star cut 122 jobs following a tough first quarter that saw parent corporation Torstar lose $3.5 million. About a third of the jobs will be lost from the newsroom. Employees were enticed to leave with a buyout package that saw long-term employees eligible for up to almost two years of their current salary.…
Three Canadian newspaper companies withdrew from the Audit Bureau of Circulation this spring, opting to have their circulation measured instead by a new organization, the Canadian Circulation Audit Board. Torstar, Transcontinental and Sun Media have switched to the CCAB, though the reasons for the move remain unclear. Media buyers speculated that the move would undermine…
Even free newspapers are hurting. Metro International lost $8.75 million in the first quarter of the year, despite strong advertising revenues and readership in much of North America and Hong Kong. The good news is that the loss is less than the international chain of free newspapers suffered last year. In the first quarter of…
Some great insights into how one small chain of newspapers is dealing with fall circulation. “Six months ago Polish publishing company Polskapresse took an innovative step in response to declining sales. The company, at the time publishing six regional dailies in different parts of Poland, decided to combine them under one brand: “Polska”. Marek Miller…
Members of the National Union of Journalists have decided to hold a strike vote to prepare for a fight over jobs at the newly merged Thomson Reuters. Managers of the new company say they have not figured out yet which jobs are redundant. The union says that voluntary buyouts and retraining should allow the company…