All work, no pay
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....
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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,...
View ArticlePhoto Facelift
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...
View ArticleThe Empty Studio
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...
View ArticleLicence to Quill
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...
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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...
View ArticleIn Media we Trust
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...
View ArticleAnd then there was one
The B.C. interior town of Nelson once had three newspapers. After a corporate shuffle, two were gone, including the 109-year-old Nelson Daily News By Jen St. Denis For more than a hundred years, the...
View ArticleThe Physics of Science Writing
Reporting on science means making complex information understandable to everyone— without losing anything in the translation By Anne Watson Jess H. Brewer looks a little like Indiana Jones. A large...
View ArticleLet’s get it Straight
The once-radical founder of Vancouver’s ‘hippie rag’, Georgia Straight publisher Dan McLeod says his values haven’t changed. By Derek Bedry Georgia Straight owner and publisher Dan McLeod, 68, sits in...
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