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The state of journalism in Canada is coming under scrutiny in an event on Thursday May 29 in Toronto organised by the Canadian Media Research Consortium.
The one-day event, entitled The Future of News, aims to “bring together the best minds in industry and media studies to consider some of the challenges posed by today’s media [...]

Joseph Carrabis, founder and chief research officer of NextStage Evolution, talks about how there are two kinds of bloggers, the Holmes and the Watson.

(Shot on a Nokia N95 at the ICA annual conference in Montreal)

Media scholar David Domingo talks about the he co-edited with Chris Paterson, Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production. The volume is a compilation of research into the working routines and values of online journalists.

(Shot on a Nokia N95)

One of the questions raised at the ICA pre-conference on new media is over how hyperlinks can structure knowledge.
Michael Zimmer, Microsoft Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School for 2007-2008, offers a provoking idea, exploring how the French philosopher Diderot employed “textual hyperlinks” in his Encyclopédie.
This was a work published [...]

I’ll be blogging from the International Communications Association annual conference in Montreal over the next few days.
The proceedings started on Thursday with a range of pre-conference events, including one taking a historical perspective on new media, entitled the Long History of New Media.
Some initial thoughts from the first session, discussing what is [...]

Canada’s broadcast watchdog, the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), wants to hear from Canadians about what it how it should deal with the Internet.
At issue is whether the CRTC should extend its mandate to the Internet, a medium that is free from regulatory oversight.
The chairman of the CRTC, Konrad von Finckenstein, outlined the watchdog’s approach:

“New [...]

Several chapters from Charlie Beckett’s forthcoming book, SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World, are available online.
The core of the book, published by Blackwell books on May 20, is the idea of Networked Journalism, which Beckett describes as:
Networked Journalism is a description and an aspiration. It reaffirms the value of the [...]

The findings of the News Barometer survey of newspaper editors has been extensively covered, so I just wanted to pick up on a few of items from it.

“35 percent believe print will reign supreme”. This is a spurious question. Editors should not worry which form of media will reign supreme, but rather which [...]

Image via WikipediaNBC has a strange idea of broadcast journalism for the 21st century. It has joined the New York Film Academyto launch a programme to “train the next generation of journalists who will be prepared to navigate the evolving landscape of digital journalism”.
The aim is to meet “the pressing demand for skilled, [...]

Image via WikipediaJeremy Paxman, the presenter of the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs show, Newsnight, reveals his feeling about user-generated content and engaging with the audience, with his pay-off at the end of the programme:
…on the website along with our editor’s pathetic pleas for you to send some of your old bits of home [...]