As part of a research program called CHAMP (Canadian Health and Media Project) devoted to examining health literacy in Canadian daily newspapers, and operating from a theoretical framework that posits journalism as a practice of representation, this article is based on a series of formal interviews with English-language and French-language health reporters. The interviews sought answers to three central questions about health reportage: how do journalists demarcate such a vast topic as health? where do they find their stories? and to what extent are they familiar with research into the social determinants of health? It concludes that in spite of their dependence upon published scholarly research as a source of news stories, Canadian health reporters overemphasize the roles of the health care system and personal health habits in the production of Canadians' health, and they underemphasize the role of social determinants. Keywords Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 32 (2007) 557-574 ©2007 Canadian Journal of Communication CorporationRésumé : Dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche nommé CHAMP (Canadian Health and Media Project) qui examine le niveau de connaissance par rapport à la santé dans les journaux quotidiens du Canada et dans un cadre théorique qui avance le journalisme comme étant une pratique de représentation, cet article est basé sur une série d'entretiens formels avec des journalistes de santé publique dans les milieux anglophones et francophones. Les entretiens avaient pour but de répondre à trois questions centrales à propos du journalisme de santé publique : comment les journalistes cernent-ils un sujet aussi vaste que la santé ? Où trouvent-ils leurs histoires ? À quel point sont-ils familiers avec l'étude des détermi-nants sociaux de la santé ? Il en arrive à conclure que malgré leur dépendance sur les études académiques publiées comme source de nouvelles, les journalistes de santé publique canadiens mettent une accent démesurée sur le rôle du système de santé et des habitudes de santé personnelles sur la santé des Canadiens.Mots clés : santé de la population; déterminants sociaux de la santé; journalisme santé
International news-flow research has repeatedly identified significant imbalances in the global exchange of news among regions of the world. With the emergence of thousands of news sites on the World Wide Web, and the corresponding ability of news audiences to access these sites, the Internet offers the technological capacity to globalize media content. This paper seeks to test that possibility by exploring the way one Canadian daily newspaper, the Montreal Gazette, occupies the geography of the Internet with its on-line news operation. The paper reports on an exploratory comparative news-flow study of the Gazette's hard-copy and on-line editions to determine whether on-line publishing has prompted the Gazette to alter the boundaries of its news coverage. While the paper concludes that, indeed, the Gazette's website consistently carried far more international news items than its hard-copy edition, it also notes that this distinction is largely explained by the website's very heavy reliance on wire-service copy and its emphasis on sports news.
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to characterize the audiovisual locations industry in Canada, an industry which attracted $500 million in direct spending by foreign film and television producers in 1994. Two questions are posed: What is the locations industry? and What is its significance as an emerging cultural industry in the Canadian context? The paper first situates the locations industry in its theoretical, historical, and sociopolitical context. It explains its economic rationale and considers the extent to which the locations industry integrates audiovisual production within the Hollywood industry. A case study of British Columbia, Canada's largest centre for locations production, is then presented to consider how the locations industry defines place. The paper concludes with a discussion of how the promotion of locations production in Canada speaks to a larger debate over the nature of Canadian cultural production. Résumé: Le but de cet article est de caractériser l'industrie de tournage étranger au Canada, une industrie de 500 $ millions en 1994. Cet article pose deux questions: quelle est cette industrie? et, quelle est son importance comme une industrie culturelle émergente dans le contexte culturel canadien? Tout d'abord, l'article situe l'industrie dans ses contextes théorique, historique et sociopolitique. Il explique son raison d'être économique et il examine l'intégration de la production audiovisuelle dans l'industrie hollywoodienne. Ensuite, l'article analyse la construction matérielle et symbolique du lieu à travers l'exemple de la Colombie-Britannique, le plus grand site de tournage étranger au Canada. Enfin, cet article considère l'intervention de la promotion de cette industrie dans le débat général qui s'addresse à la nature de la production culturelle canadienne.
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