Today’s Globe and Mail editorial on the death of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad calls on democratic countries, including Canada, to stand up for freedom of the press by first standing up to Pakistan.
While dissident journalists are silenced or jailed, Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has a lot to say to those in the West who still entertain the fantasy that Cuba and Castroism are models of social organization.
Toronto city councillor Doug Ford spoke on AM640’s the John Oakley Show today about Canada Day, Pride, his time at the cottage, and, what else, the Toronto Star. Needless to say, after the Toronto Star showed up on his cottage doorstep, Ford isn’t any more impressed with the paper than he ever was.
When reporter Mac McClelland went to Haiti on assignment for Mother Jones magazine, she met a woman who told a harrowing story of gang rape. That experience, and what happened to the woman subsequently, had a powerful effect on McClelland. “I was undone,” she writes. What McClelland did to deal with her PTSD is a…
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has issued a plea on their website: Please no more complaints about Krista Erickson’s interview with Margie Gillis on Sun News.
Forget the ol’ industry doom and gloom, say panelists at the RTNDA conference in Halifax: Morning news is on a roll. David Thurton tells us why news shows at the start of the day are rising like the sun.
Read our round-up for the highlight presentation and discussion on journalism and academic cross-dressing; what banned U.S. academic Bill Ayers had to say; plus what happens when academic research hits the media in a social world.
The CD Howe Institute’s most recent report is brash, writes Dwayne Winseck, and some might dress it up as bold, but it definitely ain’t right. Why the institute’s three-page report in dropping media foreign ownership limits just doesn’t cut it. This story originally appeared on Dwayne Winseck’s blog, Mediamorphis, and a version of it also…
Halifax-based Frank Magazine fired the majority of its newsroom last week, and then wrote about it in the current issue — with typical Frank sauciness, of course. Associate J-Source editor Lauren McKeon reports on the story behind the decision to print, why the newsroom was gutted, and where Frank goes from here.
“The content farms have taken journalism hackwork to a whole new level.” A highly critical look at factory journalism: online companies like Associated Media and Demand Media that generate enormous quantities of content masquerading as news. Writer Virigina Heffernan of the New York Times also reports on what Google is doing to counteract this phenomenon.