The Past, Present and Future of Sensor Journalism
This weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School for a workshop on sensor journalism. The workshop (hashtag…
Journalism
Connections between wealth and power flourish in secret
An article I published almost three years ago is timely on this election day. Voters have an opportunity to change direction. If we do not, the plundering of British Columbia…
InsideClimate wins Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Canada’s tar sands
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: On Monday, three reporters from nonprofit online news site InsideClimate were honored with a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Canada’s tar sands and…
No free lunches… ever
Update April 9: I heard that CKNW’s Bill Good responded on his April 5 morning show to selected critics, people he declined to identify other than through reference to hated…
World Press Freedom Day celebration to highlight free expression in tough times
By: Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom | Press Release: OTTAWA, April 2, 2013 – On May 3, 2013, editors, writers, politicians and policymakers from across Canada will celebrate freedom…
Associated Press Ditches “Illegal Immigrant”. And A Lesson For Jason Kenney
Surely this progressive step by the AP should enlighten Canada’s mainstream media, the Canadian Border Services Agency and immigrant-bashing Conservative politicians such as Jason Kenney. It should make them “see”…
Pundit, partisan, or?
A garrulous right-winger, Alise Mills has appeared on CKNW, CTV, Sun News Network and CBC. Because she is pervasive, it’s worth learning a little about her. In the preceding article,…
Breaking bad news…
Is anyone else mildly freaked out by how many news stories they learn of first on Twitter? Or is it just us Twits? Alltop is breaking funny. Noise to Signal…
Mainstream headlines demonize Quebec student protesters (again!)
(video – 5 mars 2013, Montréal. Ostie d’grosse manif de soir contre la hausse éternelle from Mario Jean on Vimeo.) Tuesday, March 5, 2013, marked the rebirth of Montreal nocturnal…
Mainstream headlines demonize Quebec student protesters (again!)
(video – 5 mars 2013, Montréal. Ostie d’grosse manif de soir contre la hausse éternelle from Mario Jean on Vimeo.) Tuesday, March 5, 2013, marked the rebirth of Montreal nocturnal…
Mainstream headlines demonize Quebec student protesters (again!)
(video - 5 mars 2013, Montréal. Ostie d'grosse manif de soir contre la hausse éternelle from Mario Jean on Vimeo.) Tuesday, March 5, 2013, marked the rebirth of Montreal nocturnal…
Mainstream headlines demonize Quebec student protesters (again!)
(video - 5 mars 2013, Montréal. Ostie d'grosse manif de soir contre la hausse éternelle from Mario Jean on Vimeo.)Tuesday, March 5, 2013, marked the rebirth of Montreal nocturnal protests…
Solid Monckton Journalism
Viscount Monckton is on another one of his highly lucrative climate denial evangelism tours of Australia. I caught this great piece from a Tasmanian newspaper called “The Mercury”, Monckton’s Hot…
Ethics in Exile
Silly Prince George Citizen, holding a staff writer to account for generously liberating other writers’ work: To our shock and dismay, multiple incidents of plagiarism were uncovered from work over…
Ethics in Exile
Silly Prince George Citizen, holding a staff writer to account for generously liberating other writers’ work: To our shock and dismay, multiple incidents of plagiarism were uncovered from work over…
Cosign With Jay Rosen
This: Editing by click rate is stupid and unethical. Chasing traffic is an abyss. The hamsterization of journalism is degrading the work environment for news professionals. Expecting reporters to report,…
Take a look at the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting…
Take a look at the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting (CCIR). It’s a very important non-profit organization that organizes and promotes investigative journalism in Canada and far beyond. Groups like…
"All bets are off"… or not
It's been a while since I complained about CBC pundit Stephen Smart but his 5pm news report today was egregious. He suggested the current Angus Reid poll indicates an important…
Propagandists in the service of the powerful
For more than half a century, the Soviet Union's news agencies were universally recognized as untrustworthy. Strict political controls ensured that content served interests of the nation's autocrats. In the…
Pro-media: watchdogs or lapdogs?
Katie Hyslop has a worthwhile piece in The Tyee about the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation. Teacher Decries Pension Plan's 'Unethical' Investments, The Tyee, Nov. 13/12 " Hutcheson started researching…