Archive
30 Apr

Greg Weston leaves CBC

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Political reporter Greg Weston is leaving the CBC.</p><p>Weston tweeted he was leaving the CBC of his own volition and that his departure was not part of the 657 layoffs at the public broadcaster.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Rumors true: I'm leaving CBC soon but entirely on own steam. Not part of sad cuts at Corp. No regrets. On to new adventures. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23hw&src=hash">#hw</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cdnpoli&src=hash">#cdnpoli</a></p>

READ MORE
30 Apr

Sandra Martin leaves the Globe after 16 years

<p>Sandra Martin, a <em>Globe and Mail </em>features writer who has been with the newspaper for 16 years, is leaving the newspaper to write a book.</p><p>Martin covered the “dead” beat since 2004 and is the author of <em>Working the Dead Beat: 50 lives that changed Canada</em>. Prior to that, she was an arts and culture writer, specializing in books for the <em>Globe. </em></p><p> </p>

READ MORE
30 Apr

CBC Sports executive producer Dan Tavares leaves for Rogers

<p>Dan Tavares, executive producer of CBCSports.ca, has left the public broadcaster for Rogers, where he will be the new executive producer for hockey.</p><p>The move was announced last week, CBC media relations spokesperson Chuck Thompson confirmed in an email to J-Source.</p>

READ MORE
30 Apr

Le Huffington Post débarque à l’Assemblée nationale

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Bellerose.jpeg" title="" />Patrick Bellerose fera son entrée à la tribune de la presse de Québec demain, sous les couleurs du Huffington Post. Il devient ainsi le premier journaliste représentant un média tout en ligne à couvrir ce qui se passe à l’Assemblée nationale.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

READ MORE
30 Apr

Access to information among concerns in CJFE Review of Free Expression in Canada

<p><strong>By Grant Buckler</strong></p>

READ MORE
29 Apr

Why j-schools should foster entrepreneurship

<p><strong>By Julie Ireton</strong></p><p>No one has to tell new and recent journalism school grads it’s a tight job market. Many are going from internships to freelance to contract jobs in an attempt to fulfill a burning desire to stay in journalism. But more often than not, it’s actually waiting tables or bartending that pays the bills.</p><p>These 20-somethings want more—but believe it or not, they don’t necessarily want a mainstream media gig.</p>

READ MORE
29 Apr

Molly Hayes, Katie May win Goff Penny Prize for young Canadian journalists

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Molly Hayes_0.JPG" title="" /><img align="right" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Katie May.JPG" title="" /><em>Hamilton Spectator</em>’s Molly Hayes took the <a href="http://www.newspaperscanada.ca/news/awards/young-reporters-hamilton-spectator-and-lethbridge-herald-win-2013-goff-penny-awards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goff Penny M

READ MORE
29 Apr

Lettre au président de Radio-Canada

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/index_5.jpg" title="" />Monsieur le président, nous sommes inquiets.</p><p>Vous nous connaissez très bien. Vous nous voyez et nous entendez tous les jours à la radio et la télévision publiques. Nous travaillons pour le service de l’information de Radio-Canada et nous en sommes extrêmement fiers.</p><p>Aujourd’hui, nous voulons que vous entendiez notre cri d’alarme sur les graves conséquences des dernières compressions budgétaires.</p>

READ MORE
29 Apr

Veteran Toronto journalist Jonathan Jenkins dead

<p>Jonathan Jenkins, a veteran Queen’s Park journalist in Toronto, has died.                </p><p>Jenkins was the <a href="https://twitter.com/jmdjenkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bureau chief</a> at <em>QP Briefing, </em>an electronic newsletter about the Ontario Legislature. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jonathan-jenkins/14/1ba/914" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prior to that</a>, he was the Queen’s Park bureau chief and police reporter for the <em>Toronto Sun</em> from 2000 to 2013.</p>

READ MORE
29 Apr

Scanning for stories: Behind the scenes working overnight camera

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/Tony Smyth_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>When most of Toronto is fast asleep, CBC's Tony Smyth is scanning the airwaves for the next big story. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to be a camera operator capturing local news in the dark of night.</em></p><p><strong>By Eric Mark Do, Reporter</strong></p>

READ MORE