Grant Ellis named general manager of BNN
Ellis will replace Jack Fleischmann, whose last day as general manager of BNN and vice-president of CTV News Channel was Aug. 8
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A moment of silence for CBC in Thunder Bay
Like more than 650 others who recently lost their jobs at the public broadcaster, associate producer Josh Lynn was shown the door. But the effects in Thunder Bay, Ont., go beyond the loss of a couple positions, he says. The impact there is immediate and dramatic: by losing Voyage North, the city’s locally produced programming…
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Globe public editor: Crowd estimate depends on your point of view
Some people are good at counting numbers of people in a grid and then extrapolating that to the larger size crowd. If you try that, you will often find a smaller number than your initial estimate, says public editor of The Globe and Mail.
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Canadian magazine sales down 4.8% in first half of 2014
Newsstand sales and paid magazine subscriptions were down 4.8 per cent for Canadian magazines in the first half of 2014 compared to the same period last year, according to a report from the Alliance for Audited Media.
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Gazette announces team for four-platform strategy
Montreal’s The Gazette has named four producers and four deputies to support the newsroom as it moves to Postmedia’s four-platform strategy.
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Canada Wide Media axes BCLiving’s Chinese edition
Less than a year after Canada Wide Media launched a Chinese edition of its lifestyle magazine, it has pulled the plug and will dedicate resources to its more popular English edition.
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Toronto Star Master Glass: File recovery
Toronto Star photographer Steve Russell is on damage control, showing you how to get back lost, deleted or formatted images from your card using file recovery software.
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Alison Uncles joins Maclean’s as deputy editor
Uncles is leaving the Toronto Star, where she was the associate editor for weekends and features, to join Maclean’s.
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Lianne George joins Chatelaine as editorial director
George, who was the editor of the now defunct weekly The Grid, is joining Chatelaine as editorial director.
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CKNW hosts Bill Good, Philip Till retire
Long-time hosts Bill Good and Philip Till are retiring after nearly three decades with Vancouver’s CKNW radio station.