CMN 1160 Lecture 5: Journailsm

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Pierre Belanger

Document Summary

Journalism is one of oldest profession to use media: have right to freedom of the press, but responsible to act in interest of the public, governed by national newsmedia council. Ethical rules and codes to adhere to protect reliability and credibility of the industry. Qwerty keyboard isn"t the fastest layout for typing the most commonly used letters would jam in a typewriter, so they were separated. The mercer report and this hour has 22 minutes on cbc tv are examples of political satire that demonstrate the extent of journalistic freedom in canadian public. Other countries least press freedom in north korea and eritrea (africa) these countries are news and info black holes, dangerous zones for journalists who live and work there. Finland, netherlands, norway are ranked freest press; canada places 18th out of 180 countries. Press group: rogers media macleans, gesca la presse, quebecor media le journal de montreal.