Fight for your Write
Lawyer and journalist Michael Geist's work centres around online copyright laws that are becoming increasingly important to journalists. Lora Grady investigates the problems and how Geist is delivering the solution.
This past June, then Industry Minister Jim Prentice introduced a bill on Parliament Hill that sparked debate across creative industries nationwide. Bill C-61, a reform on copyright legislation, could have potentially strangled the freedom of online journalists without them even realizing it. Fortunately, thanks to university professor, blogger and columnist Michael Geist, thousands were aware […]
Strength in Numbers
Ed2010 isn't a robot from Star Wars, it's the group where the magazine minions meet to network. And it may be the only way to survive the recession
In 2002, when Kim Shiffman was an editorial assistant at Chatelaine, she heard about an American organization called “Ed2010.” This 11-year old group, formed to encourage editorial juniors to aim for top jobs, instantly struck Shiffman as intriguing. Although there was already the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors, Ed2010 was for people starting out, and […]
One Ombud is Better than Two Reporters
Heather Mallick's incendiary column on cbc.ca and CTV's decision to air Stéphane Dion's botched interview gave journalists plenty to talk about this fall. But discussion is one thing; the power to act is another. So Heather Li asks former Toronto Star ombud Don Sellar about a job held by only two people in English Canada
In September, Heather Mallick wrote a cbc.ca column about Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin that sparked hundreds of complaints and questions about how editors could allow it to run. Then, during the federal election campaign in early October, CTV aired the false starts of an interview with then-Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, even though reporter Steve […]
After the Buyout
In an environment of cutbacks and layoffs, some stick with the craft and others jump ship--for better or worse results. Amy Fuller explores life after journalism.
Times to cut newsroom staff and pages published. Torstar to cut 160 jobs. Canwest cuts 560 jobs Canada-wide. Multiple rounds of newspaper buyouts across the nation and south of the border have provided steady fodder for gloomy headlines. Paper Cuts, a site that tracks layoffs and buyouts at American newspapers, reports that the total number of jobs lost in […]
