When workers at Ming Pao, one of Toronto’s largest Chinese daily newspapers, started to unionize this summer things got nasty fast. Management laid off union organizers and openly likened others to Maoists. Seven weeks into the resulting strike, Rhiannon Russell visits the picket line for the inside scoop.
A growing number of people in the GTA say they are becoming victimized by the highly influential, and allegedly irresponsible, ethnic media, reports the Toronto Star.
In a passionate call for a return to storytelling, Roy MacGregor, blames the an "obsession with 'content'" for applying pressure on reporters to "file, file, file" to produce content that lack substance. [node:ad] MacGregor says reporters are treated like "hamsters stuck in an endless wheel, spinning nowhere. They must set up games, tweet from morning…
Who doesn’t love a top j-books list? For journalists, it’s endless fun debating what books should have made it but didn’t, and what books did but shouldn’t have.
For its second annual Rethink issue, Maclean’s is all about innovation – even when it comes to the magazine itself.
Did you know the wily (seriously, try drawing it) ampersand is really the result of B.C.-era scribes working too fast while writing “e” and “t”?
When it comes to the Rob Ford/22 Minutes sideshow the CBC failed big time, writes Mark Bourrie in the Torontoist.
Toronto mayor Rob Ford may pride himself of being accessible to every regular Joe who phones him, but he's spent his first year in office freezing out selected media. Now, the motion to address the slights in the public arena, and get the mayor talking, has flopped. Rhiannon Russell has more.
In the growing list of funny things Americans do during the race for their party's presidential nomination, you can add Herman Cain singing out his news conference.
Texas governor, and Republican presidential hopeful, doesn’t get The Globe and Mail’s satire. Or, at least, it would seem that way after he recently took a jab at the Occupy movement by referencing a quote from a satirical Globe piece about Occupy Toronto.