Archive
20 Oct

How prepared are you to report on the economy?

In a Town Hall post – It’s the economy – are we stupid? – Deborah Jones asked how prepared journalists are to place economic issues in context. These days, it’s […]

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13 Oct

The election and media reform

Back in February, media watcher Robert Hackett argued media reform should be a top priority in the impending (even back then) federal election. Hackett saw a disturbing constellation forming: an […]

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6 Oct

“The” issue versus “those” issues

In the final weeks of the campaign, the economy is settling in as federal election 2008’s ballot box issue. But in our rush to define “the” issue, what happens to […]

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28 Sep

Right to Know – Not!

It’s Right to Know Week in Canada, but few journalists are celebrating. In the midst of an election, public servants aren’t talking to the public, and the prime minister’s ‘no […]

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22 Sep

Election 2008: Can pigs fly?

Two prominent Newfoundland journalists have crossed the line to run as candidates – and “it’s not pretty,” observes Greg Locke in this J-Source post. But when the Sydney Morning Herald […]

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13 Sep

Poll Dancing

Back in 2005, researchers at the universities of  British Columbia and Saskatchewan found that the press was sloppy in its poll reporting during the ’04 federal campaign. The study concluded […]

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8 Sep

Election hub

With a federal election finally out of the gates, J-Source is your election coverage hub. Find out what other journalists are thinking and doing, share a story, and gain that […]

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31 Aug

Learning and living journalism

So you’ve decided to go to journalism school. And you wonder what the hell you’re doing buying textbooks and signing up for courses rather than running out and gathering scoops […]

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26 Aug

Finding our way through blogland

While Christie Blatchford sees blogging as a pox (see Why Blatchford Won’t Blog), the universe nonetheless continues to unfold along lines that are more conversational than monologic. To address some […]

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15 Aug

Docs too hot to handle?

It seems some docs are a little too hot for the Harper government. Citing an infestation of “highly ideological individuals exposing their agendas,” Kory Teneycke, the PM’s press secretary, explained […]

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