Archive
10 Jun

Op-ed: Ottawa’s information lockdown is bad for democracy

A group of journalism organizations have penned a joint editorial about Ottawa’s insidious information control, why it’s bad for democracy and what journalists should do about it. A few weeks […]

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9 Jun

Interview with Wired’s creative director

Wired staff spent months developing its new iPad app, which  become Apple’s best-selling app just hours after its May 26 launch. Loud Cloud’s Joshua Gorchov interviewed creative director Scott Dadich […]

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8 Jun

CJFE wants your opinions

The Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression (CJFE) plans to revamp it’s profile, and it wants your input. Take the time to fill out a short questionnaire before June 11 […]

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8 Jun

The growing world of blog-ournalists

Women’s Post writer Anastasia Tubanos explores the differences (and accidental similarities) between bloggers and journalists, and why it’s important to draw a distinction. “One of the biggest differences I’ve always […]

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8 Jun

How do you say mea culpa, 140 characters at a time?

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="Left" alt="Ivor Shapiro" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Ivor_new_headshot.JPG" style="width: 145px; height: 108px;" title="Ivor Shapiro" vspace="5" />In which </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ivor Shapiro</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, an old-dog reporter who just happens to be J-Source's ethics editor, explains how he learned, first-hand, that the new tricks of real-time reporting can be perilous.

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8 Jun

Magnet workshop: SEO writing

Ray Litvak is the founder of Writing Web Words, a company that helps local businesses raise their online profile using SEO. He led an SEO writing workshop at Magnet, an […]

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7 Jun

CBC report on news balance

As part of its accountability mandate, CBC periodically analyzes its news content, published in an interim report called The News Balance Report. Findings include: 59% of CBC news anchors/programs are […]

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3 Jun

“If it’s not on-demand…people won’t watch it”

Media analyst and Newsonomics author Ken Doctor talks to ProjetJ.ca associate editor Lise Millette about the impact of the 24/7 world on news. Doctor recently spoke at a Canadian Media […]

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3 Jun

Norman Spector on Mulroney and the strange press silence

An editorial by Norman Spector in the Globe and Mail questions La Presse’s coverage of the Oliphant report into Brian Mulroney’s dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber.While he notes some tough editorials […]

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26 May

Have journalists become prisoners of language?

Robert Fisk, The Independent’s Middle East correspondent, in a speech at the annual Al Jazeera forum, discusses the words and narratives inherited by journalists when reporting on conflict and war. […]

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