Archive
13 Oct

Lock-out au JdeM: quel impact sur le moral des troupes?

Hier, les journalistes et employés de bureau affiliés au Syndicat des travailleurs de l’information du Journal de Montréal (STIJM) ont rejeté en bloc la proposition patronale leur imposant notamment d’importantes […]

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13 Oct

How many journalists are covering Chile’s trapped miners?

Are you glued to footage of the rescue of 33 trapped miners? Thanks to 24-hour, live streamed coverage — the effort of hundreds of media outlets — you won’t have […]

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13 Oct

Le lock-out au Journal de Montréal se poursuit

Les journalistes et employés de bureau affiliés au Syndicat des travailleurs de l’information du Journal de Montréal (STIJM) ont rejeté massivement la proposition de règlement de conflit de leur patron, […]

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12 Oct

The future of investigative journalism

Brant Houston, Knight Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois, has written a useful summary of current issues in the field of U.S. investigative journalism. Houston […]

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12 Oct

33 trapped miners + 150 media outlets + Chilean desert road = 17 journalist injuries

750 journalists have descended on a dusty, otherwise uninhabited stretch of Chilean desert to catch a glimpse of rescue efforts to evacuate 33 miners that have been trapped for two […]

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12 Oct

Journalism in the Age of Data

Very cool video on communicating data, on visualizations and how to make data more accessible.

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12 Oct

J-students don’t read newspapers

And are we surprised? A brief posting by British J-techer Roy Greenslade shows they think they’ll work in print but they don’t read it. So, where do they get their […]

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12 Oct

Toronto Star on the ethics of going undercover

Toronto Star reporter Dale Brazao went undercover as a resident of a retirement home and discovered untrained staff, unsanitary conditions and seniors left in dirty diapers. In a column, Star […]

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12 Oct

Disaster coverage: the journalism of outrage

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita changed the rules of disaster coverage. Journalistic objectivity and professional detachment have begun to give way to righteous indignation and emotion-laden reporting, Claude Adams writes. Shouldn’t […]

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12 Oct

Lock-out au Journal de Montréal: vote en cours

Les journalistes et employés de bureau du Journal de Montréal en lock-out depuis 20 mois sont réunis en Assemblée générale pour se prononcer sur une offre patronale, selon Radio-Canada. Cette […]

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