Category Archives: Media News

Last weekend I saw Page One: Inside The New York Times, the documentary about the influential newspaper. The movie opens with a brief history of print and the sudden decline of print media in the Internet age. Bracing for the Internet fear-mongering that loving portraits of print media usually present, I was surprised by an…
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Nick Taylor-Vaisey (@nonstopnicktv) is a prolific Ottawa freelancer and the editor of OpenFile Ottawa (@OpenFileOtt), the recent extension of the OpenFile news service. If you’re not already familiar with how OpenFile works, it’s a collaborative news site that allows citizens to open files and suggest stories for freelancers to cover. Files stay open after the…
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This post by Shawn Dearn This is one of many Remembrance Days I have attended or reported on in Ottawa. While they each follow a predictable program, I have to say this one was really something special…and I’m glad I got there early. Listen! Maybe it was the happy and cheering crowds. Maybe it was…
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Rumors are rampant in official Ottawa. Silly season arrived weeks ago. What must Canadians think of all this talk of mergers, coalitions, fake lakes, and bailiffs chasing political staff around town? The ruckus on Rideau has drowned out some pretty legitimate debates: spiralling costs of the war, the environmental debt we are creating on the…
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Craig Silverman is part of a team, headed by Wilf Dinnick, that is creating the transparent, multimedia, open-sourced news website OpenFile. The first part of this interview can be found here. -Travis Boisvenue People talk about how social media, or new media, might replace traditional forms. It seems more that social media acts as a supplementary…
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Craig Silverman is the journalist behind Regret the Error, the co-author of Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet and Why It’s Still Broken, and the managing editor of PBS.org MediaShift. [Full disclosure: MediaStyle principal Ian Capstick is a contributor to the MediaShift blog] He’s also part of the team, headed by Wilf Dinnick, that is creating the…
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Alfred Hermida is on the cutting edge of delivering news digitally. He is a professor at School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia and leads the Integrated Journalism program. After his Northern Voice session about bringing a wiki to the CBC Radio 3 team we sat down and talked about what the future…
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The first week of the election across the pond is over and the stakes are really heating up. Labour and Conservatives are locked in a horse race. And, with the Liberal-Democrats  included in the first ever national debates–anything is possible on May 6th. Canadian political watchers love UK elections. There’s more humour, more gossip, and…
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I suppose this was bound to happen when you take away the team of highly trained producers, but could anyone have guessed Mike Duffy was going to fall on his face this many times? The Canadian Press reports: “Senator Mike Duffy has attacked the University of King’s College and other Canadian journalism schools for exposing…
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I’ll admit to being skeptical about how fresh a WWII documentary could be. Even with George Stroumboulopoulos as the narrator, HD location shoots, and and new historical footage from Russia and Japan. I’m happy to say I was wrong to doubt. The CBC/Radio Canada coproduction Love, Hate & Propaganda hits all the right marks and lives up…
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