It’s time to start The Conversation in Canada
My UBC Journalism colleague Mary Lynn Young and myself are the co-founders of The Conversation Canada. Here we explain why the time has come for this new model of journalism.
Data unicorn paper accepted by Digital Journalism
UPDATE: The paper was published on April 7 by Digital Journalism (subscription required). If you can’t access the paper, please email me for a copy. My paper with Mary Lynn Young on data and computational journalism in Canada has been accepted for publication by Digital Journalism. The article, Finding the Data Unicorn: A hierarchy of hybridity in data…
Nominated as Canada’s top social media maven
I’m honoured to have nominated as Canada’s top social media maven in the 2011 Digi Awards. Also up for the award are Erica Ehm, who set up the online magazine YummyMummyClub.ca, and YouTube personality Nadine Sykora. The winners will be announced on December 6th at the finale of nextMEDIA Toronto, one of Canada’s leading digital media conference. The social media maven…