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Aug 20, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
After airing a story that sparked a number of complaints, the CBC offered an apology at the end of a National broadcast for quoting Stephen Harper out of context. The report by Christina Lawand, which aired August 4, 2006, featured a sound bite from a press conference that suggested Harper wasn’t concerned with public reactions to foreign policy. A YouTube video uploaded by the Conservative Party’s Stephen Taylor contrasts the CBC story with Harper's remarks in full context. After the apology aired, a Canada Free Press opinion piece criticized the CBC, saying that "expressing regrets is not the same as apologizing for a mistake."
Aug 20, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
Victoria News editor Keith Norbury was fired August 17 in part due to an advertiser complaint, reports B.C. politics blog Public Eye Online. The complaint came from a local car dealership about an article that described how one woman saved $13,000 by buying a used car in the U.S. The article was written by senior reporter Brennan Clarke, who resigned on August 15. The Public Eye Online report includes a reprint of the article in question.
Aug 15, 2007
- Posted by Deborah
Jones
Dean Starkman offers some strong opinions on the sell-out of the WSJ in the Columbia Journalism Review, and a warning for the NY Times. An excerpt:
And so Dow Jones & Co., once the proud lion of financial news, goes down instead like a jackrabbit shot while sprinting across a field, tumbling just long enough to hold a discussion about tradition, responsibility, ethics, Schumpeter and other conservative-sounding things, before finally coming to rest, belly up.
After the deal was announced, the WSJ's editorial page went on the offensive, or tried to, against anyone who might suggest that Dow Jones's sale might not be as good a deal for business-press readers as it is for top DJ executives and senior Journal editors.
And so Dow Jones & Co., once the proud lion of financial news, goes down instead like a jackrabbit shot while sprinting across a field, tumbling just long enough to hold a discussion about tradition, responsibility, ethics, Schumpeter and other conservative-sounding things, before finally coming to rest, belly up.
After the deal was announced, the WSJ's editorial page went on the offensive, or tried to, against anyone who might suggest that Dow Jones's sale might not be as good a deal for business-press readers as it is for top DJ executives and senior Journal editors.
Aug 14, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
Michael Geist, a columnist for The Tyee, lays out the challenges that lay ahead for Konrad von Finckenstein, the newly appointed chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
Aug 14, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
Cate Doty, a writer for The New York Times, discusses the demise and influence of the mock tabloid Weekly World News, which folded in July after almost three decades of publication.
Aug 14, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
In a column for the Toronto Star, David Eave and Taylor Owen, both bloggers, take a look back at the influence the blogosphere has had on journalism since bloggers first burst onto the new media scene a decade ago.
Aug 14, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
Konrad Yakabuski, a Globe and Mail columnist, reveals what the recent friendly merger of Montreal-based Abitibi Consolidated Inc. and its U.S. rival Bowater Inc. says about the state of the North American newsprint market.
Aug 14, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
Steve Anderson, a Vancouver-based journalist, comments on the possible impact of several recent media mergers in Canada in a recent edition of The Tyee.
Aug 14, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
In a recent edition of The Tyee Elaine Corden, a freelance writer, comments on the success (or failure) of CBC’s latest ventures aimed at attracting a new fresh-faced audience to the aging broadcaster.
Aug 14, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
Bill Reynolds, a Ryerson University journalism professor and editor of the Ideas section of J-Source, rails against the latest redesigns of The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star in the July-August edition of This Magazine.
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