No simple task

As a newly appointed Canwest VP of digital media, Kenneth Maclean has been tasked with growing the online versions of three newspapers. Our advice: take three aspirins and visit J-Source in the morning. Here are some recent posts on the tangled and often uneasy relationship between print media and the Internet.

• Blogs shut down at
  Toronto Life
• Internet blows
  past newspapers as source of info for U.S. voters
• Focus on
  journalism, leave the rest to Google?

As a newly appointed Canwest VP of digital media, Kenneth Maclean has been tasked with growing the online versions of three newspapers. Our advice: take three aspirins and visit J-Source in the morning. Here are some recent posts on the tangled and often uneasy relationship between print media and the Internet.

• Blogs shut down at
  Toronto Life
• Internet blows
  past newspapers as source of info for U.S. voters
• Focus on
  journalism, leave the rest to Google?

Patricia Elliott

Patricia W. Elliott is a magazine journalist and assistant professor at the School of Journalism, University of Regina. You can visit her at patriciaelliott.ca.