Q&A: Edward Greenspon and NRC delegates
Edward Greenspon, CEO of the Public Policy Forum and author of its report The Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age, delivered the keynote address [Read more...]
Journalism
Media workers’ activism key to future of journalism
The future of journalism and the news industry depends on media workers and their unions mobilizing the public to pressure politicians to enact supportive policies and [Read more...]
How Facebook and other platform companies promote bad journalism — and what to do about it
RICK EDMONDS and BENJAMIN MULLIN | Poynter Facebook and other platform companies publishing news are forces for bad journalism not good, despite some well-intended efforts [Read more...]
Striking Halifax journalists’ awards nominations double Herald’s
Local Xpress, the news site run by striking Chronicle Herald staff, has been nominated for six Atlantic Journalism Awards — twice as many as Nova Scotia’s “paper of [Read more...]
Dozens of CWA Canada members up for CAJ awards
UPDATE: May 1, 2017 — The CWA Canada / CAJ Labour Reporting Award went to Min Sook Lee of TVO for Migrant Dreams Dozens of CWA Canada members are among the finalists [Read more...]
Ruling against VICE reporter ‘bad news for journalism’
A ruling today by the Ontario Court of Appeal that a VICE Media reporter must hand over his notes to the RCMP is “bad news for journalism and for democracy,” said CWA [Read more...]
Talks between Herald, striking staff break down
NEWS RELEASE HALIFAX — Talks between 55 on-strike Chronicle Herald newsroom workers and the company broke down on Thursday over seniority, jurisdiction and a handful of [Read more...]
Feds must take ‘urgent’ action on news industry report
OTTAWA – CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, is calling on the federal government to take urgent action in response to today’s independent report on [Read more...]
Postmedia must rescind layoffs, use exec bonuses to save jobs
OTTAWA – CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, is demanding that Postmedia rescind today’s layoff notices along with the big bonuses it paid top [Read more...]
Coalition urges press shield laws, inquiry into spying on journalists
A press freedom coalition of a dozen organizations, including CWA Canada, is calling on the federal government to take urgent action to protect journalists and their sources. [Read more...]
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