Archive
28 Jul

First Cronkite, then the world

Former CBC producer and trainer Tim Knight remembers walking into Walter Cronkite’s CBS office in 1971 and asking him to help change the world. It’s 1971. Pictures of CBS stars, […]

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28 Jul

Adventures in long-form magazine editing

Trying to imagine the best way for a story to unfold before a reader’s eyes is first and foremost in any editor’s mind when handling a lengthy manuscript, writes Bill […]

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28 Jul

Twitter, video, blogging: should I add it all to my workday?

The digital revolution is less about adding multimedia tricks and more about reinventing the role of the journalist, writes Alfred Hermida. There is no one digital trick; it’s still about […]

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27 Jul

La SRC pouvait révéler le nom des policiers dans l’affaire Villanueva

Le Conseil de presse du Québec (CPQ) a rejeté la plainte du Service de police de Montréal (SPVM) contre Radio-Canada. Le SPVM déplorait l’identification des policiers qui sont intervenus dans […]

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27 Jul

Coupes à la SRC : les médias privés et communautaires s’expriment

Le débat sur les coupures à Radio-Canada rate la cible. L’enjeu n’est pas de savoir si la SRC sera en mesure d’assumer son rôle de service public national, mais bien de […]

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27 Jul

Toronto Life suspends honorarium for interns

Toronto Life has temporarily cut out the honorarium that was attached to its four-month internship program, according to a post from Masthead Online. TL interns in the past received $500 […]

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27 Jul

Tough times for women’s mags

“Lady mags are in trouble…Big surprise. Lady mags are dinosaurs,” writes The Tyee‘s Vanessa Richmond in a recent column. She wrote: “Elle‘s ad pages for September are down 21 per […]

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27 Jul

First woman NNA winner dies at 97

Veteran Canadian newspaper reporter Dorothy Howarth, the first woman to win a National Newspaper Award (NNA), died of respiratory failure in Pickering, Ont. on July 14. Howarth began her reporting […]

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25 Jul

Independent investigative journalism in Britain

Britain is following the lead of the United States in establishing an independent investigative journalism fund. A number of prominent British journalists have banded together to create The Investigations Fund, […]

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25 Jul

Investigative journalism – where there’s a will, there’s a way

Investigative journalism was already on the ropes when the economic crisis hit. But where there’s a will, there’s a way. The Canadian-American Real News Network was one of the first […]

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