Journalists Within Borders
By using social media to report on #ISIS from home, journalists risk reporting lies, spreading propaganda and missing the story
By using social media to report on #ISIS from home, journalists risk reporting lies, spreading propaganda and missing the story
Silenced Spring
Environmental reporters are turning to crowdfunding—but their voices are becoming whispers in the noise of news
Environmental reporters are turning to crowdfunding—but their voices are becoming whispers in the noise of news
Whose brand is it anyway?
Unions still needed to protect journalists' integrity in the face of creeping advertorial
Last summer, The Globe and Mail wanted to introduce a drastic change: editorial staff writing and editing advertorial copy as part of their regular duties. If this branded content proposal became a mandate, journalists would serve advertisers rather than their readers. It might have happened at the Globe if the unionized staff did not take […]
Bloomberg News embraces longform journalism in Canada
The news agency’s domestic division looks to features and investigative reporting under former Globe and Mail editor Edward Greenspon
By Erica Commisso The Ottawa office of Bloomberg News is just minutes away from the Rideau Canal and Parliament buildings, directly down the street from the National War Memorial. Most days, this makes for nothing more than a pleasant view. But on October 22, 2014, Bloomberg employees were some of the first to broadcast […]
Live blog: In conversation with Jesse Brown
After investigating Jian Ghomeshi, Jesse Brown and his podcast CANADALAND became a hit. On January 20, Brown speaks to Ryerson University about media criticism and holding journalists to account. Photo courtesy CANADALAND
John Macfarlane and The Walrus: a lovely coda
One day early on in my internship at The Walrus, the magazine’s managing editor Kyle Wyatt ushered me and three other interns into the boardroom. “You are all very, very lucky to be working right outside the office of John Macfarlane,” Wyatt said, his voice dropping conspiratorially. So we were understandably nervous when Macfarlane sat […]
Kamloops no longer has a daily paper, but it’s no town without news
When the Daily News shut down, it deprived residents of the B.C. city of their regular routine, but not of journalism
By Aimee O’Connor With a ceremonial click of a button, Mel Rothenburger, who’d retired as editor-in-chief in 2012, simultaneously put to bed the last issue of the Kamloops Daily News and an 80-year-old tradition. The front page headline on the January 11 edition read, “I really don’t know what I’m going to do when there’s […]
The coming ethical battle over reporting with drones
Journalists are excited about the possibilities offered by the technology, but the public is wary
By Amanda Panacci It began with an aerial shot of a wheat field. The September 24 lead story on CBC’s The National recounted the horrific murder of three Aboriginal boys near Pefferlaw, Ontario, more than five decades ago. But the brief, beautiful opening visual was noteworthy because it was the first shot aired from CBC’s […]
Is La Presse+ the solution to newspaper woes or a capitulation to advertisers?
A Montreal newspaper's new tablet app is proving popular with readers, but the content may need to become lighter to please the real customers
By Arielle Piat-Sauvé Guy Crevier knew something needed to change when he compared the drop in newspaper revenue to the aging baby-boomer population. The president and publisher of La Presse suspected that as his core readership aged, newspaper sales could decrease significantly. Fearing it was only a matter of time before the traditional newspaper model […]
Jane Armstrong takes her passion for investigative journalism to The Tyee
The long-time print reporter faces the challenge of following founding editor David Beers at the independent online magazine
By Megan Matsuda Jane Armstrong got chills when she heard Rita Daly’s idea for a new investigative series. The two Toronto Star reporters were at a party, chatting in the backyard. Why, Daly asked, did so few domestic abuse cases result in a conviction? Together with Caroline Mallan, they began an intense, nearly year-long effort […]
