Canadian Press reports that the RCMP is evicting journalists from a Charlottetown hotel lobby at the request of the Prime Minister’s Office. The federal Conservative party is holding its annual summer caucus at the hotel. Police in plainclothes and the hotel manager “told reporters that the Prime Minister’s Office had requested all media be barred…
ECCE HOMO – Chroniques intempestives, Grégory J’aimais bien Paul MOREIRA lorsqu’il présentait son émission de reportages sur CANAL +, journaliste pointilleux mais sachant rester humble, il avait le mérite de nous proposer des sujets de qualité. Mais depuis qu’il a perdu son émission, je ne le reconnai plus… Avec barbiche guevaresque et lunettes d’intello, notre…
Tuner.be L’essor d’Internet et du multimédia a considérablement modifié la façon de «faire du journalisme». Celle-ci doit maintenant se conjuguer en termes de convergence. L’AJP mène l’enquête, et propose, dans son mensuel «Journalistes», le premier volet de son dossier«Nouveau journalisme et nouveaux journalistes». «L’avènement d’Internet comme moyen de communication de masse et les (r)évolutions technologiques…
The broadcasting industry is continuing to expand and new media are increasingly important to Canadians’ lives, said the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in its annual broadcasting report. Here are the report’s findings:
In an essay in the Toronto Star, David Eaves and Taylor Owen explore the impact of blogging, which they contend reaches its 10th anniversary this month. “Blogging continues to be misunderstood by both technophiles and technophobes,” they argue, and say blogs will neither replace traditional journalism nor threaten the quality and integrity of journalism –…
24heures.ch Le site internet d’information NowPublic ambitionne de devenir, avec ses journalistes-citoyens, “la plus grosse agence de presse du monde” d’ici un an et demi, et a annoncé lundi un financement de 10,6 millions de dollars américains pour parvenir à ce but. Surfant sur la vague du “journalisme-citoyen”, NowPublic permet à tout un chacun de…
The news that four people died when two U.S. news helicopters collided last week was stultifying; the deaths seemed too pointless to even mention here. Then I read Mark Hamilton’s blog post, and find myself in agreement with his opinion that the helicopter crash is a sign that “somehow journalism has lost its way and…
NowPublic Technologies Inc. calls itself the world’s largest participatory news network, with 100,000 non-professional contributing reporters from more than 140 countries and 3,600 cities, and a partnership with Associated Press. Today, the company that began in a Vancouver garage received $10.6-million US in venture-capital financing. It says it aims to become the world’s biggest news…
As a reader, my eyes started glazing over every time there was another headline about Conrad Black, and I turned off the radio or TV when the news turned to him. I’d had about enough, oh, six years ago. Seems that my interest level about the former media tycoon and former Canadian is shared by…
François Cardinal, La PresseEt l’épidémie d’algues bleues? La saison touristique ruinée ? N’y a-t-il pas crise ?Eh bien ! non. Il y a certes problème, mais il n’y a pas crise. Derrière ces manchettes à répétition qui nous font croire que plus de 80 cours d’eau sont envahis par les cyanobactéries, il y a un…