Archive
9 Feb

Inbound CEO cleans house at CTV

Several veteran CTV exeuctives are leaving in advance of the company’s acqusition by BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada. Bell’s Kevin Crull, the CEO-in-waiting to replace CTV CEO Ivan Fecan, told employees […]

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9 Feb

Photojournalist attacked in Cairo

Andrew Burton, an American freelance photojournalist was shooting the protests in Cairo when the crowd attacked him. Burton has posted some incredible photos to his blog. He wrote a post […]

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8 Feb

Publisher Henry Burgoyne dies

Henry Burgoyne, a fourth generation member of a 104-year family newspaper dynasty in St. Catharines, died yesterday from cancer at the age of 61. Following his family’s lead, Burgoyne became […]

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8 Feb

Windsor cartoonist Bob Monks dies

Windsor cartoonist Bob Monks has died, the Windsor Star reports. The Star’s Ted Shaw interviewed Monks — who is something of a local legend — last November. Monks wrote Bob […]

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8 Feb

Le CRTC pense revoir les normes de la radiodiffusion

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Le Conseil de radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC) examine la possibilité d'assouplir les normes de la radiodiffusion. Il suggère de remplacer «il est interdit au titulaire de diffuser toute nouvelle fausse ou trompeuse» par «il est interdit au titulaire de diffuser toute nouvelle qu’il sait fausse ou trompeuse et qui constitue ou qui risque de constituer un danger pour la vie, la santé ou la sécurité du public». Le Conseil a lancé un appel à observations à ce sujet.

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8 Feb

Chris Jones: Not all Smurfs and sunshine

The brooding moral universe of writer Chris Jones. This week, we feature Matthew Scianitti’s story from the winter issue of The Ryerson Review of Journalism. Chris Jones dials a number […]

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8 Feb

The Liberation Treatment: How the audience is changing health reporting

By Karen OwenCTV Calgary Here’s part of the introduction to my story which led the CTV Calgary 6 pm newscast on December 16, 2010:  “After incredible public pressure, the Alberta […]

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8 Feb

Why we shouldn’t ban citizen journalists from torture case

Robert Remington, an editor for the Calgary Herald, writes that a Calgary court’s recent ban barring the public and citizen journalists from a high-profile torture case is “potentially dangerous.” Provincial […]

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8 Feb

Secrets, strategies and whistleblowers

Earlier this month I took part in a discussion at the University of Manitoba about the ethics of Wikileaks. During the debate, I thought it was important to outline how […]

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8 Feb

Embed an expert: Mozilla offers news orgs access to digital innovators

It’s not always easy for a print dinosaur to transition into the online world. In these days of bleeding budgets and shrinking newsrooms, not a lot of news orgs have […]

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