Flower fight
The gay advocacy organization Egale has formally protested the use by CBC sports broadcasters of the word “pansification,” in stories about whether fighting should be banned in hockey.
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More on endowments: $2 billion oughta do it
What would it take to endow a “very healthy newsroom”? Steve Coll, writing in the online edition of The New Yorker, calculates that The Washington Post could run on the proceeds of a $2 billion fund.
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Media ban requested in swastika custody case
Officials with a Manitoba government agency asked a provincial court to ban media from attending any part of the custody case involving a seven-year-old Winnipeg girl sent to school bearing a swastika, reported The Canadian Press. CP noted that child welfare workers removed the girl and her brother, age two, from their home and are…
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New York Times crisis deepens
If the New York Times can’t hold its own, who and what can? The latest reports show profits down sharply, it’s selling its sports holdings including the Red Sox, and one media watcher discusses the possibility of the whole ship sinking — by May.
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Budget help for some publications
Canada’s “community press” got a boost in the federal budget, and the two national newspaper associations are pleased. The budget included $30 million over two years for community newspapers and magazines, said a report on a community newspaper site.
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Endowing newspapers
If Thomas Jefferson was right that a well-informed citizenry is the foundation of our democracy, then newspapers must be saved, write two financially savvy thinkers at Yale…
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Iraqi journalist’s land entitlement
Demands for land in Iraq for “journalist citizens” are just bizarre. Reports the New York Times: “At a recent meeting with the Iraqi journalists’ union…
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France launches aid program for newspapers
The French government will spend several hundred million dollars a year to help France’s newspaper industry cope with declining ad revenue. Measures include tax breaks, increased government advertising and subsidizing free subscriptions for 18-year-olds.
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Collision of journalist/physician ethics
A doctor who wrote an essay in excruciating detail about the death of a Canadian reservist in Afghanistan was censured by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons. A college press release said “Dr. Kevin Lee Patterson has admitted that he was guilty of unethical and unprofessional conduct with respect to breaching patient confidentiality.” Patterson…
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Fund aimed at helping families of murdered fixers
UK-based Frontline Club today posted a video soliciting donations to its Fixers Fund, a fund aimed at helping the families of murdered fixers that was created last year in response to the murder of Ajmal Naqshbandi in Afghanistan…