CBC News Sunday featured a piece on the future of newspapers for which I was interviewed last week. The piece airs on CBC-TV at 10:00pm in Canada and the segment is about an hour into the two-hour show.  For those of you outside Canada, the video is already available on the CBC News Sunday website (though I wish I could embed it here). While newspapers do much of the original

CBC asked me to take part their spring training session for CBC.ca journalists. I had two hours to run through how to tell stories online using multiple media. Here are the sites I used in the talk: Example of a print story repurposed for the web from The Vancouver Sun The Great Turtle Race: A project conceived as an online site from the start Example of a repurposed TV script

CBC Vancouver is holding is holding an all-day workshop on social media.  The aim is to “find out how some of us use it to make our jobs easier, and how others can learn to tap into its power”. The CBC is tapping into the wealth of talent in Vancouver on social networking, with a wide range of speakers, including Kris Krug and Megan Cole. You can follow the day

CBC is reaching out to the Chinese community in British Columbia with the launch of a Chinese-language news service. The website is fairly basic at this stage, with a list of headlines leading to local, national and international stories in simplified and traditional Chinese characters. The stories are picked by staff in the Vancouver newsroom and translated by journalists at Canada’s international broadcaster, Radio Canada International

A tongue-in-cheek primer on how to produce a radio show by host Nora Young and the team at the CBC show Spark. Remember, before you do anything, you need a good idea for a radio show! For more gems, here’s the video. (Via Inside the CBC blog)

The CBC is facing a period of upheaval and uncertainty as it pushes ahead with plans to integrate its television, radio and online operations. The Tea Makers blog, run by an anonymous CBC staffer, raises some big questions about the process of bringing together the three mediums. It argues that while the idea may make sense on paper, it overlooks the differences between TV, radio and online in Canada: Radio

The CBC’s project to revitalise its offering in Vancouver is nearly complete, with a major revamp of its local website and a relaunch of its evening TV news show. Vancouver is the testbed for the myCBC project and this is now been extended to other regional hubs across the country. A key element of the initiative is to build closer ties with the community by offering opportunities for citizen-generated content.

The big new story in Vancouver is the release of an amateur video that recorded the death of a man after he was stunned with a Taser by police in October. The dramatic 10-minute video shows four RCMP officers talking to the man, Robert Dziekanski, at Vancouver International Airport, and then stunning him. The video was shot by eye-witness Paul Pritchard with his digital camera and it has sparked much