Profits at Canada’s biggest private television broadcasters plunged by almost 93 per cent last year, said a report from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Amid comments about the Canadian Press story on the Globe and Mail site (why does the Globe not at least rate the angry torrent of drivel?) is this sage observation:…
Shrinking newsroom budgets have left former T-Star publisher John Honderich asking: Whither serious print journalism? He finds some interesting possibilities in the U.S., where non-profit foundations and cooperative ownership models are coming to the fore. Meanwhile, there are no quick answers for papers that continue to grapple with the Internet despite the fact that the…
In yet another twist on user-pay, US-based Spot.us solicits reader donations to cover the cost of journalistic investigations. The problem? The reporting just isn’t very good, says James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times.
The Project for Excellence in Journalism is now tracking news discussions in the blogosphere every week as well as news coverage by traditional U.S. news media. The first “new media index” published last week revealed bloggers were just as mesmerized by the Obama inauguration as was the MSM. But the indices published this week are more interesting – while economic…
Some young people who wouldn’t be caught dead reading a newspaper today expect they will in the future. That’s what doctoral student Seth C. Lewis found when he surveyed students at two U.S. universities. While only 14 per cent of the more than 1,200 students surveyed would openly admit to reading a non-student print product today, 41…
What on earth are the British thinking these days, aiming their guns at their messengers? The Brits harassed five top financial journalists who appeared at a government hearing in London to defend themselves against accusations their reporting caused panic and helped escalate the financial crisis in the U.K. Reported a story on CBC.ca: “An independent…
Canadian-Egyptian journalist Heba Aly was expelled by Sudan, where she had been reporting for the Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg and Irin, reported AFP. A Canadian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman spoke out against the expulsion, saying Canada is “concerned” and has “have contacted the Sudanese authorities, including the foreign minister, to get an explanation and express our…
Can’t get enough about how to fund newspapers in the 21st century? The latest to weigh in is Jack Shafer on Slate.com. His verdict: It’s a bad idea to divorce the newspaper from market pressures.
We know online video is popular, but the latest US numbers were startling nevertheless: US Internet users viewed 14.3 billion (yup, with a “b”) in December alone–averaging 96 (!) videos per Internet user for that month.
Less than two years after pulling down the pay wall, NY Times executive editor Bill Keller has hinted that a consumer-pays model may reappear on the paper’s website, says a report on The Huffington Post.