Al-Jazeera’s journalists have suffered bombings, expulsions, censorship, threats, beatings, routine jailings and controversial incarceration by U.S. forces. Now, says an Associated Press report, “Al-Qaida sympathizers have unleashed a torrent of anger against Al-Jazeera television. They accuse the pan-Arab TV network of misrepresenting Osama bin Laden’s latest audiotape in the excerpts it aired.” It’s often said…
Congratulations to Toronto Star reporter Jim Rankin, who along with a team at the paper, won the Online Journalism Award for service journalism. The award was presented at the Online News Association conference in Toronto in October. The paper won for Lost in Migration, a project about unscrupulous immigration consultants. As part of the investigation, reporters…
Finally: WASHINGTON – A federal communications regulator on Thursday said News Corp.’s proposed $5 billion acquisition of The Wall Street Journal’s parent company raises competitive issues nationally and in New York.Michael Copps, one of five commissioners with the Federal Communications Commission, is asking Chairman Kevin Martin to open a proceeding to study whether the deal…
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be enough to protect journalists from being forced to give up their sources, lawyers for Montreal’s La Presse argued in Federal Court. The newspaper is trying to prevent a Federal Court judge from ordering two of its journalists to disclose the source of a document containing allegations…
The Association of Electronic Journalists announced a new award for Best Television News Information Program, named after Trina McQueen. McQueen has been a reporter for Toronto’s CFTO; co-host of W5; a reporter and later executive producer for CBC’s The National; vice president of English Television News and Current Affairs at CBC and CBC Newsworld; President…
Six Iraqi women who work in the McClatchy Newspapers bureau in Baghdad were honoured in New York with a “courage in journalism award.” Kudos to the New York Times for running the acceptance speech by Baghdad journalist Sahar Issa, speaking for the six, as an editorial. Excerpts: “To be a journalist in violence-ridden Iraq today,…
Presse nationale française Pour la première fois depuis juin 2006, les deux quotidiens de la presse nationale se trouvent en tête de liste parmi les sites internet d’information les plus consultés. Selon les chiffres portant sur le mois de septembre et détenus par l’institut Nielsen/NetRatings en France, LeMonde.fr chapeaute le classement avec 3 millions de…
Reuters and Nokia have developed a new “mobile journalism” toolkit aimed at helping reporters file and publish text, photo, audio and video news stories from handheld devices, rather than laptops. An excerpt from the press release: Helsinki, Finland – Nokia Research Center (NRC) and Reuters are working together on a mobile journalism project that could transform…
Infopresse.com Quels sont les sites les plus consultés pour créer ou lire des blogues? Cyberpresse.ca est le plus consulté, avec 5,9% des visiteurs. Sympatico/MSN arrive près derrière, avec 5,2% des internautes. Suivent Facebook (3,6%), Canoë (3,3%) et, à égalité, Google et MySpace (2%), selon un sondage réalisé par Ipsos Descarie.
Jérôme Bouteiller, Imédias.biz Serpent de mer de la blogosphère, la question de la distinction entre blogueur et journaliste est réapparue ces derniers jours, à la faveur d’une opération d’intoxication de la presse orchestrée par le blogueur Arnaud Jeulin et de la mise en ligne d’un nouveau site baptisé No-Press. J’intoxique puis je dénonce Rédacteur du…