Category: News
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New Media Trends
Journalism is evolving rapidly in a “mixed media” of traditional newspapers and broadcast stations combined with a “new media” of on-line journalists. These developments in journalism are driven by vast…
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Offensive Journalism Fuels Facebook Advocacy
So you’ve been offended by a journalist. Maybe it was Mark Steyn’s assertion that Islam is taking over the world that got to you. Or Ezra Levant’s reprinting of the…
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Ignorance Is Not Bliss: Impacts of Trauma on Journalists
“It was a cool Tuesday in December 2005 and I almost got on board a C-130 plane, which was bound for a war-game zone on the northern coast of the…
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the Media: North Korea’s Nuclear Test
We are going to discuss North Korea’s recent nuclear test, but first — there’s rarely time for history lessons in daily news, but North Korea’s recent past has relevance today.…
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Protecting freedom of information in B.C.
The first BC Information Summit on September 29, 2006 will bring together academics, legal experts, journalists, elected officials and experienced Freedom of Information requesters to explore the challenges and solutions…
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Thailand Breast Slap
It is being stated about Thailand breast slapping issue that recently the Thailand government has initiated this program which eventually will be helpful in encouraging those women or girls that…
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Could a news war between America and Iran become a physical war?
Fox News says Iran should be bombed. This doesn’t surprise me, given that channel’s track record in Iraq. What worries me, however, is that the hawkish channel has just begun…
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Investigative journalist says Canadians kept in dark by their leaders
Award-winning Toronto Star investigative journalist Rob Cribb called on the Canadian public to demand greater government transparency at a lecture at UBC’s Robson Square campus last week. “The public must…
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Gender, Conflict & Journalism: A handbook for South Asia
The idea of a handbook that combines the challenges of reporting on gender and conflict and how the two intersect was conceived during the planning for the UNESCO-Nepal Press Institute’s…