It’s no easy task launching a new publication. Take Christopher Frey’s tweet this morning: “9 HOURS TIL LAUNCH. @cf_huzun hasn’t had a shower in two days.” No big surprise there, Frey is the editorial director of the Toronto Standard, a new online publication set to launch tonight at 8 p.m.
Ah, what a tease. Many mag writers were surprised and delighted (and in some cases, disappointed) when a nominee list went up on the National Magazine Awards website Wednesday — way ahead of the previously-announced May 2 release date. But, alas, just as congratulatory tweets started flying, the NMA Foundation said the list wasn’t right.
It didn’t take long for Toronto city staffers to react after copies of NOW Magazine’s March 31st edition hit Toronto City Hall newsstands. Staff were sent to scour City of Toronto locations, trashing every copy of the issue featuring the now infamous photoshopped pic of the Mayor. But did NOW also go too far?
Who says Canadians don’t have a sense of humour? It’s now after noon — the generally agreed-to expiry date for all April Fool’s pranks — in all of Canada. In honour of protecting our right to call ourselves a funny nation, J-Source presents a round-up of this year’s Canuck media pranks.
In the midst of a battle over reporters’ ease of access to Toronto City Hall, Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, Councillor Doug Ford, has accused the Toronto Star of being “ruthless” in its reporting. The paper’s offences apparently include filing too many access to information requests and “stalking” the Ford brothers’ 76-year-old mother.
And I want to work for this guy. It’s all here.
Last night (Feb. 24) after a tumultuous day in Libya, all three Canadian networks — CBC, CTV and Global — decided that the important story of the day was NOT an African people’s brave and bloody struggle for freedom, but rather how that revolution is inconveniencing Canadians. CTV led with higher gasoline prices at the…
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Charlie Sheen are “addicted to explaining” themselves, writes the New York Times, like many politicians and celebrities who turn to the media to rehabilitate their public image.
Lara Logan’s sexual assault by a Cairo mob should have media organizations rethinking how they might better support reporters in the field, especially if they are female. Former CBC Radio News Managing Editor and NPR News VP Jeffrey Dvorkin has some suggestions about where news managers might look. Jeffrey Dvorkin teaches in the journalism program…
Interesting article from Al-Jazeera on the role the media played in the success of revolt in Egypt — and how the world maybe forgot Egypt is part of Africa and saw it more as a Middle-East issue than the reality the continent is now experiencing.