A long-time radio broadcaster for VOCM has died at the age of 71. Elmer Harris joined VOCM (a privately owned station known for its connection with the average working-class listener; whose call letters could stand for “voice of the common man”) as a rookie reporter and worked his way to vice president and assistant to…
Colin Perkel of The Canadian Press has a masterful piece of journalism in today’s Globe and Mail on the day Michelle Lang and four Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan. Thanks to Tom Hawthorn for pointing it out. (Ed note: The original version of this post credited the story to the Globe, where we found this…
The New York Time’s media critic, David Carr, looks ahead to the “mashup” of developments in news media industries that he says we’ll all be talking about.