Legality of Recording Conversations

This web site has information about the legality of recording private conversations without the consent of the other party. Note, however, that it doesn't speak about the legality of broadcasting a private conversation without such consent. So, you could rely on this to get notes for a story, but not necessarily for clips for a broadcast. http://www.legaltree.ca/node/908

Highlights of the site:

"...broadly speaking, Canadians can legally record their own conversations with other people, but not other peoples' conversations that they are not involved in."

"...any intended recipient of a communication is entitled to record it."

Although it is legal for Canadians to record conversations that they are involved in, it is illegal for them to possess surreptitious recording devices. ... Thus, Canadian can record their own conversations, but should do so with regular recording devices such as dictaphones, tape recorders, ipods etc."

This law applies to conversations between people who are both (or all) in Canada, only.

Police can't gather evidence this way without a warrant. The law now "specifically requires state agents to obtain prior judicial authorization for interceptions based on the consent of one of the parties." However, "Various Canadian cases have admitted recordings made by civilians into evidence where it was found that the civilians were not acting as state agents at the time of the recording." Hence, recordings made of the hockey rioters by civilians could be admissible as evidence in court.

Social Media and Radio Survey Results

http://www.radioworld.com/article/social-medias-role-in-radio-growing/24399

Overall use of social media (Twitter and Facebook) in the newsroom more than doubled, from 45% in 2009 to 96% today...Now, 65% feel it helps break news faster, 58% believe it enhances listenership and 62% feel its use provides another broadcast medium...use of “citizen journalists,” ...for providing leads (56%) or information (34%) dropped 25% since 2009. - info from Radio World Online

How To Do a Remote Broadcast for CJSF

Nice informal instructional video by Jay Peachy, with diagram by Sarah Buchanan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ecRW40DYk&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1

CJSF generally does live remote broadcasts several times a year. You can volunteer to assist on those if you'd like hands-on experience. Contact: cjsfpa [@] sfu.ca

10 Ways Journalists Can Use Twitter

The Poynter Institute is a well known US-based organization supporting journalism. You may find these tips are applicable to stories you are working on for CJSF radio. The title of the story is Ten Ways Jouranalists Can Use Twitter Before, During and After Reporting a Story.

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/146345/10-ways-journalists-can-use-twitter-before-during-and-after-reporting-a-story/

#communityradio

If you are tweeting anything pertinent to community radio, you may wish to include the hash tag subject #communityradio - it is being used by community radio stations in Canada and also around the world.

Ways to extract audio from a video

If you're using a Mac, you can separate audio from video using iMovie - here's a tutorial link:

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/imovie/separating/

For a PC, try the open-source VLC program:

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/1266-extracting-the-sound-from-a-video-with-vlc

Thanks to Jean Fong for this info.

Jordan, CJSF's Production coordinator, suggests that you can also extract audio from a DVD and should see this site for information: http://handbrake.fr/details.php

Convert Android Files to MP3

If you are recording interviews on your Android phone, you will want to convert it to an editable format. This site is not the only place you can do the conversion, but it seems quite easy to use.

http://www.convertfiles.com/