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Murdoch buys WSJ, says report
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. has reached a tentative agreement to purchase of Dow Jones & Co. The story on the web site was free to non-subscribers as of late Monday. A New York … -
Massive media coverage of Black verdict
A Canadian Press story by Merito Ilo takes a look at the international media coverage of Conrad Black’s conviction, noting that “stories published Saturday in the U.S., British and Canadian media, including some newspapers that belonged to Black’s former media… -
Conrad Black convicted; expected to appeal
Conrad Black has been convicted on four criminal charges, including obstruction and three counts of mail fraud. He was found not guilty on nine other charges. He now faces the prospect of as much as 35 years in jail. A… -
Murdoch and the WSJ
Ken Auletta takes an in-depth look at the takeover attempt of the WSJ by Rupert Murdoch — which seems to be proceeding like a juggernaut — and how Murdoch keeps his promises. Or not. An excerpt: Those who are suspicious… -
“Creative destruction” and the WSJ
“Suck it up,” an editorial in the Wall Street Journal seems to tell WSJ staffers: “Those of us who extol the virtues of Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” for others can’t complain when it sweeps through our own industry.” The piece… -
CRTC new focus of “media democracy” movement
The CRTC has become the target of a new media democracy movement, and TorStar media columnist Antonia Zerbisias has a column about it — and the grassroots media activists, lawyers, academics, labour groups and cultural nationalists involved. They want Canadians… -
“A hoot”
The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten outsources himself. Using web resources only, he reports on some sort of Indian political meeting with some sort of people in some sort of strange clothes, who made lots of some sort of strange… -
Typophiles weigh in
Typophile.com has a lively discussion going on about the new Globe and Mail. Join the discussion here. Patricia ElliottPatricia W. Elliott is a magazine journalist and assistant professor at the School of Journalism, University of Regina. You can… -
Sensationalizing health coverage
A five-year research study at Simon Fraser University, published this spring in an academic journal, concludes that Canadian newspapers miss the “real stories” about health issues and “dwell on covering the more simplistic and sensational stories.” Simplistic and sensational, eh.…
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