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Mar 18, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
Globe and Mail deputy editor Sylvia Stead and Report on Business media
reporter Grant Robertson took reader questions in an Globe online forum
on March 17. Robertson...
Mar 16, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
After 46 years of publication, the Quebecor-owned Jasper Booster has ceased publication. The company cited...
Feb 19, 2009
- Posted by Kirk
LaPointe
Morten Rand-Hendricksen, in his Design Is Philosophy blog, has created a sound, 10-point list to save the newspaper. There are...
Feb 11, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
"You
know how when you read newspapers and the newsprint comes off in your
hands? What if we made that highly addictive narcotic? So that if you
read it, you'd be like, 'I gotta get my hands on another newspaper
man.'" This is comedian Jon Stewart's first solution to the revenue mess that newspapers are in these days...
Feb 09, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
It is time to stop focusing on the decline of newspapers and start worrying about the loss of mass media in general, writes Kelly Toughill. We are in danger of losing one of the few activities that forces us,
even briefly, to consider people, ideas and interests different than
our own.
Feb 03, 2009
- Posted by Kelly
Toughill
Tough times for newspapers are not just bad for journalists, they are bad for society. Former Toronto Star publisher John Honderich suggests five models for rescuing public interest journalism in an era of revolutionary change.
Dec 18, 2008
- Posted by Regan
Ray
Jared Bland, managing editor of The Walrus, recently spoke with Maclean's editor and publisher Ken Whyte about journalism today, the future of newspapers and Whyte's new book about Randolph Hearst...
Dec 17, 2008
- Posted by Regan
Ray
A year after it launched, the independent Carleton FreePress closed down in October. As Ryerson Review of Journalism reporter Christal Gardiola discovered, that’s left a paper owned by the powerful Irving family as the only one in town.
Dec 12, 2008
- Posted by Regan
Ray
Does society have anything to lose if newspapers disappear? Will
democracy suffer if people are no longer able to get their news from
ink printed on a flattened tree? These are questions asked by Maclean's
columnist Andrew Potter recently. His answer: "I highly doubt it."
Dec 10, 2008
- Posted by Regan
Ray
It's official; every kind of media is now in trouble, writes Kelly Toughill. But blaming familiar culprits like the Internet and the recession masks what is really going on.
It's official; every kind of media is now in trouble, writes Kelly Toughill. But blaming familiar culprits like the Internet and the recession masks what is really going on.
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