Harper and media control
“… the PMO could not be reached for comment.”’nuff said.
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Canadian border guards detained journalist Amy Goodman
American journalist Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now on public radio, was detained and interrogated at a Canadian border crossing about whether she planned to talk about the Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 …
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Al Jazeera: paving the way for consultative committees
Does the arrival of Al Jazeera English in Canada pave the way for “special consultative committees” to become a CRTC requirement? Which media organization should be next …
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Creative journalism
Forget time-lines. Forget historical analysis. Forget still photos or documentaries. This look at the impact of unemployment rates is one of the most effective examples of creative — and visual – journalism I’ve seen.
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[UPDATED] Unanswered questions for Harper
While Japan’s government complains about a too-chummy press gallery, Canada’s press complains about a lack of access to government …
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Japan wants press reform
To a Canadian, where the government exerts increasing control on media and opposes transparency, this story seems like a tale from some fantasy opposite world: Japan’s government wants a tougher press. “Japan’s new government is challenging one of the nation’s most powerful interest groups, the press clubs, a century-old, cartel-like arrangement in which reporters from…
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When “aggregating” becomes “plagiarism”
Times are tough for media organizations trying to cover news as more and more journalists keep getting laid off. A suit in the U.S. contends that staff at one newspaper tried to cope by using plagiarism. Or, as a source described the practice to a New York Times reporter, “errors stemming from aggregating news from…
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Canadian reporters in Indian news
Globe and Mail reporter John Ibbitson’s report from India — and a news conference question about Canada selling nuclear technology to India — earned a stinging and highly-opinionated rebuke by an Indian news service. Ibbitson, a reporter traveling with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, had asked India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh how Canadians can trust that…
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Beyond the Palin
If reporters and editors stopped giving gratuitous publicity to Sarah Palin, would she be newsworthy?
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Globe’s Moscow bureau closed
“Quietly, The Globe and Mail has shut down the Moscow bureau it opened in 1986,” Twittered Globe and Mail East Asia correspondent Mark MacKinnon. “Lights finally went out at Kaluzhskaya Ploschad on Nov 1.” Lawrence Martin’s Remembrance Day column for the Globe, about reporting on glasnost in Russia — and the opening of that Moscow…