Archive
24 Aug

Take charge of that journalism project

Think you can get away with just a pen and a notebook? Think again! You can still specialize, but expect to get outside of your comfort zone once in a […]

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24 Aug

Breaking the silence on Pakistan

In Pakistan, a disaster of epic proportions has unfolded. The Times of India reports it will take years for the country to recover. Yet media coverage has been relatively muted. […]

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24 Aug

Replacing textbooks with an iPad

<p>It's easy enough to imagine downloading texts to read them on an iPad. But imagine being able to download single chapters, rather than full texts. Imagine  interacting with the content through quizzes and other feature or highlighting text for others to see and sharing comments on passages with classmates.<br />Those are some of the things promised by a new textbook application for the iPad that some universities in the U.S. began using this week.</p>

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24 Aug

Music journalism: Low Fidelity

Smart rock criticism in the dailies was once number one with a bullet. Now the pages are full of boosters who never mind the bollocks. This week we feature Jessica […]

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24 Aug

Newspapers prepare for battle

Canada’s four largest media companies are gearing up to fight for ads and eyeballs with a variety of strategies – who will come out on top? J-Source recaps Canadian Business’ […]

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24 Aug

How to reveal secrets

Whistleblowing can afflict the comfortable, but can also do more harm than good, Stephen J.A. Ward writes. When will sites like WikiLeaks produce a code of ethics? Not long ago, […]

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24 Aug

Exceptional multimedia student projects

If you are looking for examples of great multimedia student projects, you may find them here. It’s a list of six exceptional projects recommended by Mark S. Luckie, the author […]

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23 Aug

Radio-Canada: début de la cohabitation entre journalistes de la radio et de la tél

Radio-Canada a présenté ce matin la programmation 2010-2011 de ses deux chaînes de radio, la Première Chaîne et Espace Musique. Si la salle était essentiellement emplie de gens de radio, […]

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23 Aug

Banning laptops in media classes without being a Luddite

<p>A new media journalism professor in the U.S. has decided to ban laptops in some of his media classes. <br />Jeremy Littau says he loves technology, but the evidence is building that student test scores improve in classes where laptops are banned. He is also concerned about what he calls "the halo effect."<br />

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23 Aug

Postmedia hires Metroland’s Alvin Brouwer

The Postmedia Network has hired Alvin Brouwer as its new president of business ventures. Brouwer was most recently VP, advertising and product development at Metroland Media. He will report to […]

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