When Stephen Harper appointed Toronto Star columnist and Corriere Canadese editor Angelo Persichilli as his new director of communications last week, many politicians, journalists, and regular joes and janes were surprised. As Jane Taber writes in The Globe and Mail, “Angelo Persichilli does not fit the Harper mould.” A round-up of the reaction.
Journalists should stop looking at outside industry pressures when talking about the death of newspapers, and start looking at themselves, writes j-student Mihir Zaveri in independent student press paper The Daily Californian.
When Conrad Black's new book, A Matter of Principle, is released Sept. 15, the former media magnate will already be back in prison. But that doesn't mean he'll keep mum: Black recently spoke to Metro Morning's Matt Galloway about the book, his time in prison, his innocence, and the state of newspapers today. The interview…
"I can scarce believe it's finally happening," writes Lloyd Robertson in an open letter posted to CTV's website.
While most of us lament the end of summer, writes Lisa Taylor, there is one thing to cheer: the end of silly season in news. An examination of how endless sunny days + slow news + journalist = lapse in critical thinking.
WikiLeaks and The New York Times are perhaps offically no longer BFFs.
Back in the 1990s, Pulitzer Prize winning journo Steve Twomey circulated a memorandum at the San Jose Mercury News from the fictional "Lede Desk". In it: Thirteen rules for curbing the cliché in lede writing.
The Guardian has an excellently-reasoned (if not extremely depressing) article about the end of books and writers on its website right now — and if you haven't read it yet, you should.
The to-license-or-not-to-license debate is one of the most heated conversations in Canada's journalism world. Part of the anti-license faction? Well, according to Sun Media's Ezra Levant, you can point three fingers of blame: one at Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications Christine St-Pierre, one at report writer Dominique Payette, and one at the CBC.
When the Toronto Star learned of Jack Layton's death earlier this week, it took only 20 minutes for the website to publish the news, and a 3,000-word obituary. While that may sound like a super-human feat, it was actually the result of careful advance preparation, writes Star public editor Kathy English in a column published…