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Student interview: Social media and the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot
Every once in a while I receive an interview request from a journalism student who wants my views on some aspect of digital journalism. Last week Adam Kveton of Carleton University was interested in how social media affected the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot and The Province‘s coverage of it. Here’s our e-mail interview: Did journalists
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The Guardian makes its news schedule public
Journalism blog 10,000 Words posted today about how The Guardian will began sharing parts of its story schedule publicly, to get pre-publication feedback and guidance from its audience. I like this idea, and have for as long as I’ve worked online. However, implementing something like this raises some practical considerations. They have nothing to do
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Flaherty’s tax crackdown letter reported widely in Canada, ignored in U.S.
When the Canadian finance minister dutifully writes a letter to major American newspapers, Canadian media report it like it’s a big deal. That isn’t necessarily the case. These stories need to be followed up. Media coverage in mid-September made it sound like Jim Flaherty was riding to the rescue of Canadians affected by aggressive new
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Building the second screen: Don’t let the big newsrooms scare you off
I’m a big fan of the so-called “second screen.” I rarely watch sports or any major televised event anymore without my iPhone in hand running Tweetbot. The crowd and their comments always make it more fun. So one of the first sessions I flagged at ONA 2011 was Live Events: Building the Second Screen, with
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How to tell if a news photo is real, or too good to be true
Richard Lam’s photo of Vancouver’s Riot Kissing Couple is now world-famous, but in the hours following the Stanley Cup riot plenty of people doubted the image’s authenticity. It seemed to good to be true: One of the things I love about the annual ONA conference is that you always learn about tools you didn’t know
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Google News introduces standout tag to credit the best original work
Google created some buzz (pardon the pun) this weekend at the Online News Association conference in Boston by announcing a new “standout tag” designed to give Google News love to the outlets who deserve it. You identify your best original work by including the tag in the HTML header (but no more than seven times
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I get why Jack Shafer is applauding media bias
Fairness. Balance. Accuracy. These have been three pillars of journalism for as long as I’ve thought about it. I endorse fairness. To me, that’s all about treating sources ethically and making sure you don’t cause unnecessary grief for people who don’t deserve it. Accuracy is essential. Get it right. A fact is a fact. Balance
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Why sports teams will never do what it takes to rid themselves of media competition
Jason Fry argues in a post making the rounds that we’re entering an era in which sports journalists will compete for audience directly with the teams they cover. What Fry writes is true, and has been for some time. It’s hard to find a local newspaper website that offers a richer multimedia experience than that
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RIP Paul Carson
My first encounter with Paul Carson ticked me off a bit. Fresh out of journalism school, I was volunteering as the media relations guy for the BC High School Rugby Championships. My job was to make sure media throughout the province knew the tournament was happening, and knew about stories that might be relevant to
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In 2007 I was the first journalist at the Vancouver Province to be assigned digital-only duties. I've been immersed in online news and social media ever since. If I'm not writing about storytelling, I'm just telling stories. Or writing about hockey.