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Students challenged to be journalistic innovators and entreprenuers

An American journalism professor has just received a huge grant to provide seed funding to news start-ups developed by students in his entrepreneurial journalism class at City Univeristy of New York’s Graduate…
Klein and the National Post

“Paying an Author and Putting Her Down” is a report in the New York Times about Naomi Klein’s odd appearance in the National Post. The Post paid for the rights to run…
Armstrong and the rabble-rousing journalist

His editor figured him for a “rabble-rouser and liberal,” but Larry Lubenow knew a good story when he heard one. And so he quoted Louis Armstrong when the jazz legend finally spoke…
FOI audit shows gov’t still keeping secrets

By Fred Vallance-JonesWhen I sat down to crunch the raw data from the third annual CNA FOI audit, I hoped against hope that I’d discover a marked improvement in performance by Canada’s…
Sarkozy et les médias : l’information neutralisée par la communication politique

Politique.net Hyperprésidence, omniprésence médiatique, tels sont les qualificatifs qui reviennent le plus souvent à propos des premiers mois de Nicolas Sarkozy à l’Elysée. Le chef de l’Etat est partout, il s’occupe de…
Les supercheries d’un journaliste et expert sur le terrorisme

Alexis Debat, 35 ans, vient d’être démasqué. Le Français avait fabriqué de toute pièce des entrevues avec des personnalités comme Bill Clinton, Barack Obama et Bill Gates, parues dans la revue française…
Maclean’s flap

Maclean’s, true to form lately, is at the centre of controversy again. This time it’s in the U.S., because of a magazine cover depicting U.S. President George W. Bush dressed as Saddam…
Rather’s serious charges

One good thing about the charges Dan Rather is making that government and corporations unduly influence the U.S. media is that they’ll be put to the test, in his law suit against…
King’s College journalism students will join Canada’s peacekeeping troops

Eight journalism students from King’s College will travel to Turkey in November to join Canada’s peackeepers on a NATO exercise. They will produce print, television and online reports about their adventure. It’s…
Convergence, quand tu nous tiens | Le CRTC hésite à réglementer la presse malgré les inquiétudes

La Presse Canadienne La présidente de la Fédération nationale des communications (CSN), Chantal Larouche, craint que les exigences de plus en plus grandes des patrons transforment les journalistes en “machines à mettre…