Archive
20 Jul

Press councils’ choice: make big changes, or fade to black

Press councils across Canada are declining because they lack relevance, credibility and money, writes Brian Gabrial. Yet the need for a watchdog over journalism’s ethics has never been greater, and […]

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20 Jul

The journalist as citizen

Nevermind the citizen journalist with their smart phone reportage, Globe and Mail columnist Lisan Jutras writes about the encroaching era of the “journalist citizen” in the wake of a CNN […]

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13 Jul

The conduct of public inquiries

Whether its about G20, Air India or Mulroney-Schreiber, good, bad or indifferent public inquiries make news and reporters are sent to cover them, Peter Rehak writes. Yet, relatively little has […]

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12 Jul

Court orders paper to name commenter

A court order from a New Brunswick judge has ordered a Moncton newspaper to reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter who made accusations of racism in against the fire […]

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8 Jul

ESPN gets LeBron exclusive, sacrifices control over ads and news

Basketball superstar LeBron James has given ESPN the exclusive when he announces the team he’s chosen to play for, on the condition that he choose the interviewer and all ad […]

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8 Jul

News reports did not demonstrate anti-police bias: CBSC

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has ruled against a viewer complaint that the combination of three top stories on CHAN-TV (Global BC’s) March 23, 2009 6 p.m. broadcast demonstrated […]

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7 Jul

Political blogger resigns over private remarks

Washington Post political blogger Dave Weigel has resigned after negative comments about conservatives on a private e-mail list were made public. He was only on the job for three months. […]

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7 Jul

“When everyone is a journalist, no one is a journalist”: Ira Basen

In a CBC column, Ira Basen writes about the rise (and consequences) of citizen journalism, which played out on the streets of Toronto during G20. Basen writes: “For the longest […]

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7 Jul

Economist doctors Obama cover image

A controversy has spring up in the wake of an Economist cover photo of President Obama that shows him alone and forlorn on a BP oil spill beach with the […]

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6 Jul

G20 roundup: assault, arrests and broken gear

While the stories from Toronto’s chaotic G20 weekend continue to trickle in, J-Source has created a roundup of stories from journalists who were on the ground. A journalist covering the […]

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