The Globe and Mail has beefed up its digital news operation, with the appointment of Anjali Kapoor in the newly-created position of Managing Editor, Digital, and the return of Kenny Yum as Editor, globeandmail.com. Image by cfarivar via Flickr The changes were announced by the Globe’s John Stackhouse in an e-mail to staff, saying: These changes are very much driven by my desire to have an editorial management team that

The Globe and Mail’s Matthew Ingram is sharing the workshop about Twitter he held for some of the journalists at the newspaper. The presentation is on Slideshare and free to share, download or embed.  Journalists should learn about Twitter and its potential, rather than dismissing it as a fad or waste of time. At the very least, as Ingram points out, Twitter is a good way of reaching out to

In November 2008, Mathew Ingram took on the new position of communities editor at The Globe and Mail. In this interview, he talks about how he is defining his new role every day, working out how social media can build relationships between journalists and readers. (Shot on a Nokia N95)

The list of finalists for the Online Journalism Awards is out. As usual, it is dominated by US entries. One notable exception is Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, nominated for its Talking to the Taliban special in the investigative and multimedia categories . Also interesting to note that the Huffington Post and Politico are one of the finalists in the General Excellence, Large Site, category, up against the likes of

Restaurant reviews are the sort of content that lends itself to the web, unless it is published on The Globe and Mail website. A review of a local restaurant in Vancouver, The New Bohemian, caught my attention for two reasons. Firstly, the negative experience of the reviewer contrasted with my rather more pleasurable visit to the place. But secondly, I was surprised by the lack of any web features on