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Editors in distress
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July 13, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Low pay, high anxiety, long hours and short-staffed. The life of today’s magazine editor. This week we feature Whitney Wager’s story from the summer issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
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Why the Free Press still stands tall
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August 11, 2009 - Posted by Larry Cornies
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 After a recent labour strike and staff layoffs, the independent Winnipeg Free Press still maintains its own movie critic, its own parliamentary reporter in Ottawa and continues to send reporters abroad. And despite difficulties, writes John Longhurst, the Free Press is still profitable.
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Twitter examined in new Pew Study
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February 13, 2009 - Posted by Kirk LaPointe
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The Pew Research Center has had a more detailed look at the rise of Twitter as a communications tool in the United States. Its conclusions are interesting...
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The Economist on the future of wire services
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February 13, 2009 - Posted by Kirk LaPointe
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The Economist has a look
at the backbone of news organizations this week, the wire services, and
how they're reshaping their input and output in the digital age. The magazine asserts...
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No, newspapers are not dead: Yelvington
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February 5, 2009 - Posted by Kirk LaPointe
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Steve Yelvington, the former newspaper exec now consulting on the
online end of the business, writes a solid, emotional post on how print
isn't dead. It's time to stop the irrational negativity...
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How online advertising depends on the newspaper
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February 5, 2009 - Posted by Kirk LaPointe
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In the second instalment of a series,
Alan Mutter tries to poke a hole in the belief that stopping the
presses would drive up digital advertising for newspaper sites...
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Internet weakens press authority: Rosen
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January 13, 2009 - Posted by Kirk LaPointe
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New York University's Jay Rosen asserts
that the authority of the press is weakened by the Internet. To
simplify his idea, it's because the one-to-many of legacy media has
been replaced by a one-to-many-who-share dynamic.
It's no longer a matter of...
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It’s important to understand the real cost of gathering and distributing journalism, writes 