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Leonard Asper resigned from debt-ridden Canwest “in order to pursue other business opportunities and to avoid any concerns regarding potential conflicts of interest,” announced the company.

The record number of Olympic gold medals won by Canada, and a jubilant post-games party that was largely problem-free — left some media critics” red-faced,” impressed, and startled, reported a Canwest writer ….

Andy Barrie has been a household name for almost a generation of CBC listeners in Toronto. As of Monday March 1, he will be gone …

Thirty years ago, The St. Petersburg Times newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Church of Scientology. The religious organization, which evidently considered the newspaper’s coverage unfair, recently hired investigators to investigate, and then …

The Atlantic wondered: How do other people deal with the torrent of information? It asked Steve Coll, Nicholas Lemann, James Gibney, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeffrey Goldberg and Marc Ambinder, and dished up the details of their media diets at theAtlanticWire. What would a Canadian diet include?

Journalist Judith Warner thought she had a great story to tell about the overmedication of American youth. And then her research undermined her premise…

American TV viewers accustomed to watching the Olympics on CBC television are upset ….

The headline sums up Clifford Stoll’s nice rant in Newsweek: “The Internet? Bah!” Or — for readers here who don’t care to click through — “When most everyone shouts, few listen.” Hear, hear.

The Utne Reader has announced the founding of its Dead Magazine Club. Is this ghoulish, or a fitting memorial?

Retired Major-General Lewis MacKenzie reasonably, in my opinion, criticized media coverage of the murder case involving Colonel Russell Williams. But at the same time, he smeared all journalists in much the same way he accuses journalists of smearing the Canadian Forces.