Category : Journalism

Written on May, 03, 2011 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: mediaunion.ca/ One of the worst consequences of the economic hard times that newspapers have faced across North America has been a renewed attack on the craft of photojournalism. More and more newspapers have demanded that reporters take photos and video. Here in B.C. some of our community newspaper photographer members have been laid off, others have been offered tech …

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Written on Dec, 29, 2010 by in , | Leave a comment

The Tyee – 2010: Year of the Really Super New New Journalism.

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Written on Dec, 15, 2010 by in | Leave a comment

Source: nieman.harvard.edu/reports By David Cay Johnston To understand how badly we’re doing the most basic work of journalism in covering the law enforcement beat, try sitting in a barbershop. When I was getting my last haircut, the noon news on the television —positioned to be impossible to avoid watching—began with a grisly murder. The well-educated man in the chair next …

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