Archive
29 Jan

Newspaper websites attracting more readers: Nielsen

The number of unique monthly visitors to the top 10 U.S. newspaper websites has increased an average of 16 per cent since 2007, Nielsen Online reports, while total visits are up by 27 […]

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29 Jan

RD cuts staff, imposes mandatory vacations

Reader’s Digest Association, which includes the Canadian arm, announced it is cutting eight per cent of its staff and forcing remaining staff to take mandatory, unpaid vacation days, according to […]

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29 Jan

Flower fight

The gay advocacy organization Egale has formally protested the use by CBC sports broadcasters of the word “pansification,” in stories about whether fighting should be banned in hockey.  I ran […]

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29 Jan

Gazette management and guild reps meet

After editorial and reader sales and service staff at the Montreal Gazette rejected the latest contract offer (65% of advertising staff voted to accept the offer) from owners on Jan. […]

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29 Jan

Bourse René-Payot 2009 pour le journalisme radiophonique

Le journalisme vous intéresse?  Vous rêvez de faire de la radio?  Vous êtes captivés par les voyages?  Participez à la 28e édition du concours international des jeunes journalistes radio et […]

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29 Jan

Deux classes de journalistes?

Lise Millette, ProjetJ | Plusieurs journalistes indépendants étaient réunis mercredi le 28 janvier à Montréal pour discuter du droit d’auteur et de la nécessité qu’ils soient reconnus, à leur juste […]

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29 Jan

More on endowments: $2 billion oughta do it

What would it take to endow a “very healthy newsroom”? Steve Coll, writing in the online edition of The New Yorker, calculates that The Washington Post could run on the […]

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28 Jan

Media ban requested in swastika custody case

Officials with a Manitoba government agency asked a provincial court to ban media from attending any part of the custody case involving a seven-year-old Winnipeg girl sent to school bearing […]

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28 Jan

Doute sur l’impérialisme de Quebecor

Le journaliste Steve Proulx fait dans la sémantique et allègue que la désignation de Quebecor comme un «empire» fait fausse route. Lire la suite.

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28 Jan

Les intérêts de Red Bull ou ceux des citoyens?

Roger Bertrand et Michèle Leduc | La couverture médiatique intensive et manifestement sympathique, voire complaisante sur le Red Bull Crashed Ice, poserait-elle un problème d’éthique sur le plan journalistique ?

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