Archive
31 Mar

Our press councils in sad decline

By Don Sellar So you think you have a legitimate beef against a newspaper. A reporter at The Daily Bugle who did you wrong in a feature story 10 days […]

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5 Mar

The 10 rules of writing news for television

By Jessica Grillanda If you think television news is simplistic, cliché and shallow, there are many examples to prove you right. It conjures images of anchors with bob cuts giving […]

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21 Feb

Welcome to the machine

By Andrew Flynn The Internet has turned the common business journalist into a kind information commando — the pressure to seek, obtain and quickly disseminate news demands a nimble expert […]

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15 Feb

Where’s that pesky free-speech line?

By Ivor Shapiro A discussion thread in Town Hall over recent days required an editorial decision that seems interesting enough to warrant a rare word of commentary from me as […]

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28 Jan

On writing Investigative Reporting in Canada

By Maxine Ruvinsky I had wanted to write Investigative Reporting in Canada for years before I finally got the chance: a one-semester sabbatical that released me from my School of […]

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4 Jan

Media on trial

VERDICT ON THE MEDIA: Robert “Willie” Pickton The charges: Sensationalism, squeamishness, or both. Journalism professor (and J-Source ethics editor) Stephen J. Ward laid out the ethical challenges of reporting gruesome […]

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30 Sep

You say Myanmar, I say Burma

The official name is ‘Union of Myanmar’, but media outlets appear split on what to call the Southeast Asian nation once known as Burma. The BBC and the Bangkok Post […]

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8 Aug

Deadlines: it’s make or break for freelancers

by Lezlie Lowe Do you own a calendar and know where to locate it? Yes, you say? Then you’re already a step ahead of scads of freelance journalists out there […]

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26 Mar

The banality of spinning

By Kelly Toughill Ira Basen’s chilling new radio documentary, Spin Cycles, details with horrible clarity exactly how news is routinely manufactured and manipulated in this country and abroad. The show […]

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23 Jan

Objectivity: not dead yet

In an exclusive column for J-Source, Anthony DePalma weighs in on the age-old subjectivity/objectivity debate in reporting. A New York Times reporter and correspondent for over 20 years, DePalma’s latest […]

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