Without our local paper, there are literally tens of thousands of dollars we wouldn’t have known were being spent.
I got into my zone.
I read a joke recently about a small town that had no crime whenever the police communications officer was away. The joke being that the community had no local paper and therefore no one else who was providing this information to the public.
One of the greatest compliments I’ve ever received is when a co-worker told me about an Instagram post and said something to the effect of, “I’m sure you can do a story on this.”
This is a detailed read of Facebook’s reckoning with foreign powers, powers of abuse and power over media and politics. In the end I’m left asking a question I saw posed elsewhere recently: is it ethical to use Facebook?
From this overall excellent take on how Facebook’s latest changes will affect news publishers, a quote from New York Tribune founding editor Horace Greeley on where local newspapers should be placing their focus: “The subject of greatest interest to an average human being is himself; next to that he is most concerned about his neighbors. […]
It’s based on a sample size of 21, uses old wive’s tales and has no peer review.
on asking others to explain themselves for free
TL;DR: I’ve made a new Facebook profile designed from the ground-up to be an effective tool for me to use as a journalist.
Writing in iPolitics, Paul Adams criticizes not polls, but reporters who don’t understand polls. Part of it is reporters who ignore the margin of error, reporting on polls showing a “clear winner” rather than a possible winner, but maybe not, because there’s a margin of error: “If you look at the final polling forecast from […]
” Indigenous people, I’m afraid, haven’t rated very highly on that unspoken hierarchy. Canadians evidently do not consider Indigenous people proximate — and the less proximate the subject, the more indifferent the audience.”
If you hear a woman is missing, does it make you care more, or less, to discover she’s Indigenous?
Here’s a story about being a white guy in Canadian media.
“At the moment I thought it was kind of a joke, then I stepped in your shoes, that’s when I kind of realized that it all was not a joke at all. That’s your career — obviously it’s also your body and you have complete control of that and without anyone else’s consent, they do not have the right to do anything to anyone.” Good for him. He […]
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission wants journalists to understand Aboriginal peoples. Here’s where to start.
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