Will the Toronto Star, Canada’s biggest newspaper, be in play on the stock market? The Globe and Mail’s Grant Robertson and Gordon Pitts examine that question in a piece about how some of the heirs of the family trust — the Thalls — plan to sell. Earlier, the TorStar had a (remarkably) small story about…
The latest Pew Research Center study on how Americans regard their news media will be a downer for many professional journalism: distrust, division and the emergence of media tribes. I suspect a similar Canadian study would have similar results. An excerpt from the study: The American public continues to fault news organizations for a number…
Jim Bronskill and Sue Bailey, both Canadian Press reporters, won the Justicia Award for excellence in print journalism, for a five-part series about mentally ill people within Canada’s justice system. The award, which recognizes outstanding journalism on the legal profession, is sponsored by the Canadian Bar Association and the federal department of Justice, noted a…
A report by the CBC says two journalists killed in Somalia today had lived in Ottawa before returning to Somalia in 1999 to help build an independent press. There are numerous reports that Mahad Ahmed Elmi and Ali Iman Sharmarke were the targets of deliberate attacks in Mogadishu on Saturday. They operated Horn Afrik Media…
“One of the major problems we face as photojournalists is that the public is losing faith in us,” writes John Long, co-chair of the U.S. National Press Photographers Association ethics committee.
Do you think you know what’s real? The Fake or Photo website offers a test of your ability to tell digital creations apart from reality. A sobering experience for photo editors!
Busted by a 13-year old. Ouch. After a boy in Finland noticed pictures carried by Reuters looked like subs in the movie Titanic, the news agency was forced to admit the provenance of the images. Reported the Guardian: “footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually…
Showbizz.net / Presse canadienne Le journaliste à la retraite Michel Morin mettra dorénavant son expérience au service du Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC). M. Morin, ancien reporter à la télévision de Radio-Canada, a été nommé membre du CRTC, mercredi, par la ministre du Patrimoine, Bev Oda.
Patricia Cloutier, Le Soleil Elle est disparue depuis une semaine et déjà, elle a généré 247 articles de journaux et reportages télé partout au Canada, sans compter les lignes ouvertes à la radio et les pages Web. La disparition de Cédrika Provencher est vite devenue l’affaire à suivre au Québec. Même le Globe and Mail,…
Isabelle Porter, Le Devoir Québec — Les employés en lock-out du Journal de Québec ont lancé hier une version Internet du MédiaMatinQuébec, le journal qu’ils publient depuis le début du conflit de travail à la fin d’avril. L’entrée en scène de ce nouveau moyen de pression survient au terme d’un mois sans aucun échange entre…