http://jsource.ca In a world where billions of people now have the ability to distribute pictures, videos and stories instantaneously around the world, questions about what is journalism and who is a journalist have never been more relevant, and the answers never more elusive. This section will explore the future of journalism in an age of social media. en-us N/A nospam@mail.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:56:26 MDT 20 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5038 ]]> no@spam.com (Dana Lacey) Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:58:47 MDT http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5038 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4904 Pay up, or risk being shut down, U.S. web content watchdog Attributor warns. Ira Basen looks at the California-based company that targets unlicensed article reprints. ]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:55:43 MDT http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4904 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4767 It looks like paywalls are going to be a fact of life, writes Ira Basen, after The New York Times announced plans to raise a "metered paywall" on its website.  But not all readers should be treated equally. ]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:59:58 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4767 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4755 Huffington Post," writes Ira Basen in his most recent CBC Media Watch column. "Now, nearly five years later, with the mainstream media reeling, the one fact about Arianna Huffington that is not in dispute is that she and her Huffington Post are clearly bucking the trend." Will her model help save newspapers or will it have precisely the opposite effect?

]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:11:39 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4755 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4740 Ira Basen writes, crowd funding worked, but what drives readers to donate? ]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:28:17 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4740 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4664 There's no such thing as free news, according to Rupert Murdoch, and he's prepared to go to great lengths to prove it. Ira Basen, the new contributing editor for J-Source's Future of News area, examines the paid content debate. ]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:56:17 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4664 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4647 New York Times columnist David Carr jumped into the conversation and suggested the new device could be a saviour for journalism. In a Jan. 3 column titled "A saviour in the form of a tablet," Carr asks, "So, is the Apple tablet a figment of so much Web-borne pixie dust or is it the second coming of the iPhone, a so-called Jesus tablet that can do anything, including saving some embattled print providers from doom?" While the existence of such a device from Apple is still only rumoured...]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:04:21 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4647 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4563 In his final editorial, J-Source's outgoing editor-in-chief, Ivor Shapiro, has a message for fellow members of his generation: Whining about the good old days isn't just boring; it's blinkered. The golden age of journalism may have just begun. ]]> no@spam.com (Regan Ray) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:44:17 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4563 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4536
But you may not have realized just how much audiences can now control the gathering and distributing of news, until you've read this fascinating post in TechCrunch. The author...]]> no@spam.com (Ira Basen) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:05:11 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4536 http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4535
Sometimes, the product produced by amateur journalists can make history.  The murder of Neda Agha Soltan by Iranian police was recorded on a camera phone during anti-government demonstrations in Tehran last June, and quickly became a symbol of the brutality of the Iranian regime.  

Her story has now become the subject of a documentary broadcast on the PBS series Frontline, but without that original cellphone video, her death would have passed unnoticed outside of Iran.

So it is not surprising that when a U.S. Army Major opened fire on his fellow soldiers in Fort Hood Texas earlier this month...]]> no@spam.com (Ira Basen) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:01:45 MST http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=4535