From me at the Nieman Journalism Lab today … “Every morning, the business and political elite in the biggest province on Canada’s East Coast turns to an unlikely source of information about their own world. Among all the online news organizations trying to find a way to profitability, consider AllNovaScotia.com, which has just celebrated 10 years [...] January 23, 2012
I played a minor role on a committee that released a pretty major document today. The Canadian Association of Journalists Ethics Committee released guidelines for updating and correcting information published online. This is the first comprehensive statement on best practices that we know of. The guiding principle of the document is transparency — that we don’t [...] November 16, 2011
In an article at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, I look at the Winnipeg Free Press’s new downtown news cafe. The Free Press is pushing some of its newsroom presence out of its suburban office building and into the public, physical realm. It’s showing the public how the sausage is made, using more than just the online tools [...] September 2, 2011
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Tim Currie is Assistant Professor of Journalism (Online Journalism) at the