In The Media
(Recent)
- Interviewed for CBC Radio Calgary’s morning show The Eyeopener regarding Canwest’s move to tighten controls on its online commenting system. May 21, 2010
- Interviewed for nationally syndicated CBC Radio item on anonymous comments online. April 26, 2010
- Commented in the Globe and Mail story Google and weekly paper ordered to identify online posters on the implications of Halifax weekly The Coast surrending IP addresses of commenters following a court order. April 14, 2010
- Was a guest on CBC Radio’s Mainstreet Nova Scotia talking about online comment policies following Halifax weekly The Coast’s decision to surrender the IP addresses of commenters. April 14, 2010
- Interviewed by AllNovaScotia about the legal risks associated with anonymous web postings. The Halifax Regional Municipality asked a court to force Halifax weekly The Coast to give up IP addresses that could help identify the commenters. April 14, 2010
- Interviewed by CBC Radio Corner Brook, N.L., on the future of publication bans. March 31, 2010
- Interviewed for a CBC New Brunswick story – Social media undermines publication ban — following the abduction of a Moncton woman. March 26, 2010
- Commented on the impact of Examiner.com’s launch in Canada for the Globe and Mail story: All the news you can produce: ‘Citizen journalism’ goes (semi) pro Nov. 7, 2009
- Guest on CBC Radio’s Maritime Noon phone-in: “Should anonymous comments on news websites be banned?” March 19, 2009
- CBC Nova Scotia News at Six: Commented on the online reaction to a woman kicked off a bus for wearing a headscarf March 17, 2009
- Business Voice: Commented for Evolve or Die: Halifax media faces it own ecological imperative” June 2008
- Commented for a live interview on CBC-Radio Corner Brook, N.L., on the coverage of the Robert Pickton murder trial by Vancouver-based citizen journalism site orato.com Jan. 11, 2007
- Appeared on CBC-TV’s Canada Now and The National, commenting on the prospects for citizen journalism following the broadcast of cellphone video of Nova Scotia cabinet minister Ernie Fage leaving the scene of a car accident Jan. 6, 2007
- “Blogger’s obstruction trial to test definition of journalist“: CBC-Radio New Brunswick report on the acquittal of Fredericton blogger Charles LeBlanc on charges of obstructing justice. Nov. 24, 2006
- Commented on issues of citizen journalism for a New Brunswick CBC-TV report on the arrest of Fredericton blogger Charles LeBlanc. Oct. 19, 2006
Last updated: May 26, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Tim Currie is Assistant Professor of Journalism (Online Journalism) at the