Licensing journalists: a maybe good, maybe terrible, definitely complicated proposal
What is a journalist? What is a journalistic act? What’s the best way to protect the rights of journalists? Can we trust journalists to identify and monitor one another? This Saturday evening, about 50 journalists and people concerned about the state of journalism today packed into the Upper Library at U of T’s Massey College […]
Posted on November 7, 2011 at 12:19 pm by editor · LEAVE A COMMENT · Tagged with: Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec, investigative journalism, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Massey College, quebec, Quebecor
CAJ responds to proposed two-tiered press in Quebec
Late last month, Quebec Culture Minister Christine St-Pierre voiced her support for a “professional journalist” status in Quebec. Reaction from journalists (and from us) was predictably negative. For freelancers especially, the designation would block too many from accessing important sources in government. Some suggested it was an attack on freedom of speech. And now the […]
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm by editor · LEAVE A COMMENT · Tagged with: Canadian Association of Journalists, news, press freedoms, quebec
