01 June 2012
When the police want your photographs, should you comply? By Jared Gnam Even before the puck dropped for the decisive Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final in Vancouver last spring, I had my camera and recorder ready to go just in case it got ugly in the downtown core that night. Sure enough, after [...]
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01 June 2012
Media sponsorships earn money and raise brand profile. Do they compromise the news? By Anne Watson Seven-course meals, summer festivals, economic summits, marathons—cruises to Alaska. It’s not new for media companies to sponsor events and celebrations, but these days it seems they are becoming a common and important part of doing business. “It is a [...]
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01 June 2012
Should trained journalists be regulated and licensed to separate them from the amateurs? by Carlisle Richards With the growth of citizen journalism, the debate to licence journalists has become a hot topic on the new media landscape. Last summer, a report by Quebec Culture Minister Christine St-Pierre suggested legislation to create a new, professional status for [...]
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01 June 2012
Whatever happened to community televison? By Patrick Johnston Before the reality of 500-channel cable television, before the global reach and infinite content of Youtube, there was the sentiment that a community should have its own broadcast voice—for the people, by the people. But the idea of community TV whereby an ordinary, untrained citizen could produce [...]
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01 June 2012
A smartphone in hand doesn’t make you a photojournalist. By Jesse Winter Photojournalism is dead. Anyone who has ever considered carrying a camera as a career has heard that refrain, but is it really true? Can the art of photojournalism really be six feet under, done in, as it’s often alleged, by the ubiquitous smartphone? [...]
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01 June 2012
Looking for precedents: Online privacy vs. the public interest By Grace Escudero With more people’s banking records, shopping habits and personal emails vulnerable to a determined hacker or snooper, Canadian courts are giving victims the legal avenue to sue those who invade their online privacy. “Our lives can potentially be linked to a social network; anything from [...]
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01 June 2012
Shrinking newsroom budgets mean young journalists are being asked to do it all. By Kyla Jones The age of new media should be the holy grail of journalism. It gives journalists the ability to do it all. But maybe that’s the problem. Staff cutbacks and dwindling resources in recent years means remaining employees are asked [...]
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01 June 2012
Sex columnist Dan Savage pushes the envelope while pushing for equality By Derek Bedry Dan Savage works as editorial director for alternative newspaper The Stranger in Seattle, Wash. where he lives with his son D.J. and husband Terry Miller, whom he married in Vancouver. Savage founded the It Gets Better Project, a series of anti-bullying [...]
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01 June 2012
From the basement offices of Adbusters in Vancouver, Kalle Lasn’s idea would spread across North America By Jesse Winter It ended in the rain; one last sodden parade through the streets from the Art Gallery to the steps of the provincial courthouse a block away. It was a cheeky act of defiance before Occupy Vancouver [...]
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01 June 2012
By Carlisle Richards Shaw Media is poised to launch a 24-hour local news network in B.C., but one observer of the media scene doesn’t believe Canada needs another such channel. “It’s such a crowded news landscape,” says Donald Gutstein, communications professor at Simon Fraser University. “When I heard about the channel I thought, ‘yawn, so [...]
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01 June 2012
By Celina Albany Former CTV bureau chief Kai Nagata found himself in the spotlight after resigning with a 3,000-word diatribe on why he chose to leave television news. Nearly a year later Nagata is still fiercely taking his own approach to media and pushing for new forms of journalism. Nagata was praised worldwide for airing [...]
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01 June 2012
By Celina Albany How does a tiny Vancouver-based bottled water company become one of Canada’s major multi-media hubs in just over a decade? Diversification, according the financial manager at Glacier Media Inc. “Our business and professional investments include mining, oil, gas, along with accountant and environmental manuals,” says Orest Smysnuik, Glacier Media’s chief financial officer [...]
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01 June 2012
By Anne Watson What ever happened to David Radler, former friend and business associate of Conrad Black, and second in command of the once mighty Hollinger International Inc. newspaper empire? The story of how Radler fell from grace—pleading guilty to mail fraud, and then testifying against his former partner and other Hollinger executives—is well documented. [...]
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01 June 2012
By Anne Watson Brett Mineer’s life as a journalist has been nothing short of a ride on a roller-coaster. Mineer was the CKNW radio reporter who in January 2011 broke the heart-wrenching story of the slaughter of a hundred sled dogs in Whistler, which hosted the world with the Winter Olympics just a year before. [...]
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