Briarpatch is pleased to announce our first annual creative writing contest! We are now accepting submissions of original, unpublished writing in the categories of short fiction and creative non-fiction (memoir, personal essay, literary journalism). With award-winning author Lee Maracle as our judge and $600 in cash prizes to give away, this opportunity is not to…
A Toronto Star investigation into the city’s busy youth court met with resistance from judges and prosecutors, arbitrary publication bans and attempts to block access to the basic records the media needs to cover the justice system. In the words of reporter David Bruser, the paper had to fight to lift the “institutional shroud covering…
A report in today's Globe and Mail says Postmedia is planning to ask more readers to pay for content. Paul Godfrey, CEO, says the experiments in Montreal and Victoria mean “the numbers [of paid readers] are growing. They’re growing slowly, but they’re going in the right direction… (U)ltimately, it will be across the chain.” [node:ad]
The federal government’s plan to destroy the data in the doomed long-gun registry has prompted an Ottawa Citizen reporter to publicly post a copy of registry data he obtained for a 2007 series published in the newspaper. Glen McGregor hopes this will preserve at least some of the data for future research.
À l'occasion du 125e anniversaire de l'hôtel du Parlement et du 140e anniversaire de la Tribune de la presse, l'Assemblée nationale du Québec accueillait cette semaine le Colloque sur la démocratie, les députés et les médias. En ouverture de colloque, l'intellectuel français Jacques Attali, a brossé un portrait sombre de l'état de l'information, des médias…
Mike Holme’s magazine, the appropriately-named Holmes, will cease publication after its December issue.
Grantland has published an annotated version of Gay Talese’s much-loved Esquire profile of Joe DiMaggio.
Neepawa hockey station CJBP-FM is refusing to include the town’s hockey team in its Manitoba Junior League Hockey coverage after its involvement in now-controversial hazing incident.
The National Magazine Awards Foundation has a lovely compilation of quotes up about Charles Oberdorf from June 2008, when Oberdorf was presented with the NMAF’s award for outstanding achievement.
Transcontinental Media is closing Homemakers after 45 years of publication.