Archive
5 Jan

“Look lives”: Eroding journalistic integrity one hit at a time?

If you watch the news, you’ve probably seen a “look live”. That news-speak term means a reporter who appears to be live in the field, but was taped doing the […]

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4 Jan

Toronto Maple Leafs GM plays defence with reporters

Brian Burke is the general manager of one of the most popular teams in Canada and the NHL but the media aren’t popular with him: he has referred to reporters […]

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4 Jan

Hockey team bans sports editor

Tom Gaglardi, owner of the Kamloops Blazers hockey team here in my hometown, has decided the sports editor of the Kamloops Daily News doesn’t get access to anyone on his […]

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3 Jan

An open letter to Torontoist’s new editor

In an open letter to Hamutal Dotan, the Torontoist‘s brand-new editor, writer and former Torontoistian (?) Jaime Woo offers some suggestions for creating a more inclusive site. Step one: look […]

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3 Jan

The case for a freelance future

In a post for the newly-launched collaborative news site OpenFile.ca, journalist Craig Silverman writes about why freelance journalists are more important today than ever before. “Journalism has long been home […]

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3 Jan

Canadian Press nails it

Colin Perkel of The Canadian Press has a masterful piece of journalism in today’s Globe and Mail on the day Michelle Lang and four Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan. Thanks […]

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30 Dec

The Trauma Interview: Right or Wrong?

On a recent Today Show, the host was interviewing a woman who lost her home in a California mudslide. It was an tearful exchange, but according to this entry in […]

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30 Dec

Should the media cover suicides?

There’s a compelling article in the Ryerson Review of Journalism that asks questions we should all be trying to answer about why we as an unchallenged rule immediately decide not […]

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28 Dec

Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun favourite photos

The Toronto Star has also posted its photo faves and, for those of you who don’t have a chance to read the Star, you should check out the quality of […]

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27 Dec

2010 in pictures by the New York Times

Some amazing photographic work in this slideshow by the New York  Times of some of  its best pictures of 2010. Some truly powerful pictorial statements.

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