Category Archives: Citizen journalism

Politics, journalism and Toronto’s G20 weekend

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Larry Cornies

Quite the weekend in Toronto. As anyone who has followed the history of multinational summits and anarchical protest over the past two decades could have predicted (and did), millions of dollars worth of damage and hundreds of arrests accompanied the … Continue reading →

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Reporting on journalists in harm’s way

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Larry Cornies

There were a number of very interesting seminars and panel discussions at this year’s national conference of the Canadian Association of Journalists in Montreal in late May. Among conferees, the most popular panels were those on “Ottawa’s Information Lockdown and … Continue reading →

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Tornadoes met by avid citizen journalists

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Larry Cornies

Like CITY-TV, they’re everywhere. The grainy photographs of dozens of “citizen journalists,” such as those that appeared on last night’s Toronto-area newscasts and websites, as well as today’s morning newspapers, are often touted as the harbingers of a new form … Continue reading →

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