Archive
21 Oct

Au-delà du journalisme citoyen

Au terme d’un forum sur les médias citoyens, l’Institut du Nouveau Monde (INM) a amorcé un partenariat avec les plates-formes Parole citoyenne et son pendant anglophone CitizenShift. Michel Venne, directeur […]

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20 Oct

A new form of censorship?

An important part of free expression is access to information. In the area of food safety, however, North Americans are not not getting adequate information about the food they eat. […]

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20 Oct

UBC Conference on health and environment

Registration closes Oct. 23 for a Nov. 6 science journalism conference in Vancouver. Health and Environment Reporting in a Connected World is a day-long event at the University of British […]

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20 Oct

The audience is still just the audience

There is clearly defined space for the public to participate in journalism, but, writes Alfred Hermida, there are still very few signs that news organizations are reinventing their relationship with […]

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20 Oct

Free Press announces changes to weekend edition

Last week’s reports that the Winnipeg Free Press was planning to discontinue its Sunday broadsheet edition and replace it with a tabloid called On7 have been confirmed by the company. […]

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20 Oct

David Olive’s “stubborn faith in newspapers”

Toronto Star business and current affairs columnist David Olive explains his “stubborn faith in newspapers” in a recent post to his Star blog Everybody’s Business. He outlines the reasons for […]

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19 Oct

Want a job? Get out of the city

Toronto is the centre of the universe. Or something like that. Big cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal undoubtedly have well more than their fair share of media outlets, but […]

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19 Oct

Durham College prof launches social networking site for journalism students

Journalism schools can become a bit of an in-crowd. Students are tight with each other but get very few opportunities to connect with someone from another school. A Durham College […]

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19 Oct

Reconstructing journalism

One of the most comprehensive reports on the future of modern journalism is now online, prior to Tuesday’s official release by the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University. “The […]

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19 Oct

Reviving local news

When a local paper dies, it hurts, writes Robert Washburn. Perhaps that’s why J-Source’s Innovation section is so abuzz with discussion of reviving local news, an endangered genre now touted […]

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