Category Uncategorized
30 Mar

Hot spotlight on weathermen and women

Meteorologists — whose faces are on television as weather forecasters — have become the target of climate change activists because so many in the U.S.  are climate-chance skeptics, reported the […]

READ MORE
30 Mar

A capital where freedom’s in short supply

by Lawrence Martin (This column originally appeared in The Globe and Mail and is reproduced by permission of the author.) It’s always great fun to see conservatives getting all worked […]

READ MORE
30 Mar

SPJ condemns ABC’s “checkbook journalism”

The Society of Professional Journalists isn’t happy with the “growing trend of checkbook journalism”, and released a statement citing the recent admission that ABC paid the family of a murdered […]

READ MORE
30 Mar

Hope for the international beat?

In recent years J-Source has covered the retreat of foreign reporting, including the closure of the Globe and Mail’s Moscow bureau, the loss of some leading CBC foreign correspondents.  Internationally, […]

READ MORE
30 Mar

Canwest bankruptcy protection extended

The much-beleaguered Canwest announced that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has extended the company’s creditor protection bankruptcy until June 15 – just days before the already-extended March 31 deadline, […]

READ MORE
29 Mar

CBC reporter flies for free

CBC national political reporter Krista Erickson is the subject of debate since it was announced that she is registered as the designated traveller for Calgary Centre Conservative MP Lee Richardson, […]

READ MORE
29 Mar

Pearls of wisdom for the j-school class of 2010

It’s almost April, which for many jschoolers means the end of an era. You’ve spent two, three or four years taking notes, transcribing tapes, filing copy and discussing whatever news […]

READ MORE
29 Mar

Al Jazeera in Canada – “Turning the World Back On”

Al Jazeera English will be on the air in Canada within six weeks, and not a moment too soon to spur a Canadian revival in international reporting, according to AJE […]

READ MORE
29 Mar

Hot off the presses: RRJ spring issue

Can’t wait to get your paws on a copy of the latest Ryerson Review of Journalism? Advance copies of the spring 2010 issue are free to anyone who swings by […]

READ MORE
29 Mar

Membership of the CAJ Ethics Committee

<p><span><img align="Left" alt="Canadian Association of Journalists" border="0" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/CAJ.jpg" style="width: 125px; height: 80px;" title="Canadian Association of JOurnalists" />The current membership of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the Canadian Association of Journalists is: </span></p>

READ MORE