Net not neutral: CRTC ruling
Net neutrality: 0, Bell: 1 Bell Canada has won the right to continue the practice called “Internet throttling” in a ruling from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission….
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L’État Desmarais
Steve Proulx, Voir | On sait peu de choses du richissime citoyen de Sagard, Paul Desmarais. On sait toutefois que son empire, Power Corporation, possède notamment de grosses compagnies d’assurance et de services financiers (Great-West, London Life, Groupe Investors, Mackenzie), ainsi que Gesca, éditeur de sept quotidiens francophones (dont La Presse).
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Awash
The current Columbia Journalism Review has a long, exhaustively-researched analysis of the digital information age, the role of journalists in informing citizens, and the capabilities of said citizens to become informed. The sub-title is: “Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of too much information.” The title (including exclamation mark) is: “Overload!” ’nuff said? Hat…
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Media bloodletting
More people working in media are being cut this week. Sometimes these ongoing cuts seem like bloodletting, the medical treatment of barbaric physicians who more often than not killed their patients. In the media’s case perhaps…
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Opinion – Quebecor a gagné
Patrick Déry, Le Trente | On a fait grand cas des journalistes permanents qui n’apportaient pas leur compétence habituelle à la confection du Journal de Québec pendant le long lock-out qui s’est achevé cet été, et des jeunes journalistes inexpérimentés qui les ont remplacés. Reste que Quebecor a maintenu son quotidien à flot et que…
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Murdoch ne croit pas à la fin des journaux
Marc-André Brouillard, Branchez-Vous | Le dirigeant de News Corporation croit plutôt que les journaux atteindront de nouveaux sommets au 21e siècle. L’avenir des journaux ne serait pas menacé selon le magnat Rupert Murdoch qui accordait une entrevue à la radio Australienne ABC. Le propriétaire du Sun et du Times de Londres, du Wall Street Journal…
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The assassination of Tara Singh Hayer
Ten years ago today B.C. newspaper publisher Tara Singh Hayer was gunned down, becoming the first journalist killed in Canada for doing his work.
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Rupert Murdoch is optimistic
Bon mots from Rupert Murdoch’s radio address for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (is the News Corp. chair trying to buy that too?), in which he argues newspaper industry doomsayers are “misguided cynics” and the Internet is an exciting opportunity…
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Dying newsroom
Now this is just sad: a Mother Jones photo essay of a dying newsroom. Pictures are worth 1,000 words — especially when there are no more words being written.
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Publishers’ summit: newspapers officially in crisis
A summit of U.S. newspaper publishers produced grim news last week, with one expert saying that the industry is in the fourth stage of a five-stage process toward dissolution. Corporate CEOs and publishers gathered in Chicago for a one-day, closed-door meeting convened by the American Press Institute Nov. 13. Editor and Publisher has the full…