The Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released its annual State of News Media report last Monday, focusing on social media’s growing role as a tool for delivering news. Still, the report showed that respondents’ use of social media as a means to access news is not as common as visits to a publication’s website, or even searches of… Continue reading News consumption and social media
Oh, good, Geraldo Rivera’s still talking
Any day is a good day when Geraldo Rivera opens his mouth on camera. Rivera, perhaps best known for revealing how much Al Capone’s vault sucked, gave his take on Fox & Friends last Friday about Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen who was shot and killed by a self-appointed neighbourhood watchdog because he looked “suspicious.” “I am urging the parents… Continue reading Oh, good, Geraldo Rivera’s still talking
The Most Tales: Graeme Smith
In our next video, The Globe and Mail correspondent Graeme Smith tells us one of the most heartbreaking stories he heard during his time in Afghanistan.
Time magazine photo editor to speak at Ryerson
Natalie Matutschovsky, a former Ryerson image arts student and Time magazine’s current senior photo editor, is flying in from New York to give a guest lecture for the IMA Student Lecture Series this Thursday, alongside Jason Logan, the creative director of all Rogers’ publications. Before joining Time as the associate photo editor in 2010, Matutschovsky headed photography for The Walrus, of… Continue reading Time magazine photo editor to speak at Ryerson
The New York Times tightens its “porous” paywall
Freeloaders, it’s time to pay up. That’s the message being sent by The New York Times, anyhow, as the paper announced yesterday it was changing the number of free articles visitors to the website could access each month. When the paywall was first introduced in March of last year,the Times said that visitors to the paper’s website could access up to… Continue reading The New York Times tightens its “porous” paywall
