Canadian Heritage committee  Let's begin with a little bit of history about our association. RTDNA Canada began as RTNDA in 1962. A few broadcast journalist news directors had been members of the U.S. Radio-Television News Directors Association in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1962 they founded the Ca

Canadian Heritage committee  The RTDNA has a strong relationship with many journalism schools across Canada, and through its partnership with its foundation it works actively to promote journalism as a career opportunity for young Canadians. Many of our regional awards events are held at local journalism sc

Canadian Heritage committee  Our founders followed the U.S. RTNDA standards and practices, until the Canadian association adopted its own code of ethics in 1970. This code has been modified slightly over the years, but over the past year a considerable rewrite of the code has been created. If the membership

Canadian Heritage committee  Our membership depends on the continuing support of owners of news operations. With fewer owners now covering Canadian news, there are also fewer news directors, and every year brings new batches of layoffs of newsroom staff. That results in less original reporting, less investig

Canadian Heritage committee  The very nature of local journalism today is changing due to the rapid transformation of our media environment. This revolution is placing into question the future of local journalism as we have known it, because no business models have yet been developed to make it sustainable.

Canadian Heritage committee  We have a number of membership categories, and the active membership category is essentially everyone who is a practising journalist. Our organization began as a group of news directors and news managers, and it has expanded over time to include people who've practised.... It use

Canadian Heritage committee  We would welcome any of those organizations that would like to join. Part of our accepting a member is that they agree to abide by the code of ethics. So if The Tyee wants to do that, they could be a member. I couldn't list offhand list the members are, but many of the journalist

Canadian Heritage committee  I think I would add—

Canadian Heritage committee  I would differentiate between the journalist on social media versus the individual who is on social media and who doesn't necessarily follow journalistic practices. I think there's a significant variation in the level of trust that someone reading social media will have. It depen

Canadian Heritage committee  —that particular category. It was quite nice to see that people took what was discussed at one conference, and the next year you saw concrete results. People actually said, “I'm going to get one of those.” Many people didn't get the award, of course, but what they did was that th

Canadian Heritage committee  I have about 36 years in the business, so I understand a number of the viewpoints you have. I think that when it had the initial name of RTNDA back in the day when it was mainly news directors and new managers, they would come to the conference, have the various learning opportun

Canadian Heritage committee  I would add that social media doesn't replace mainstream media. At the local level, it is a wonderful thing, a great advance that the local town hall is available as a webcast perhaps, so that any of the citizens can watch. The reality is that most citizens aren't watching, and n

Canadian Heritage committee  Collaboration with any journalistic organization absolutely is an option. At RTDNA, we believe we are about journalism and trying to maintain good standards and ethics in what we practice. Many other organizations have similar objectives. We can work together, and as journalists

Canadian Heritage committee  We would all like to say that we have enough money to do things. Where the money comes from, I think, is the nature of the question.

Canadian Heritage committee  We've had many discussions with so many people about this, starting with the very basic separation that all journalists are part of the media, but social media isn't part of journalism necessarily. If you're practising social journalism, you may be completely accurate in reportin