Alleged quote by Rupert Murdoch on his intent to sue broadcasters like the BBC for stealing the work of print journalists … oops, make that “copyright infringement”: “If you look at them, most of their stuff is stolen from the newspapers now, and we’ll be suing them for copyright … They will have to spend…
Congratulations to Linden MacIntyre, winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop’s Man (Random House Canada). As an investigative journalist MacIntyre co-hosts of The Fifth Estate on CBC; he has won nine Gemini Awards for broadcast journalism. His most recent non-fiction book was a boyhood memoir called Causeway: A Passage from…
Journalists recall covering Germany’s “9/11” — 20 years ago — when the Cold War that had seized the world for some two generations symbolically began to melt….
A Globe and Mail political blog reports on the newspaper’s spat with Auditor-General Sheila Fraser, over whether the Globe’s excerpting of a chapter ….
Nearly three weeks after a petition was begun to urge action in the kidnappings of Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan, there are only 523 signatures. What gives? The online petition asks Ottawa “to do everything in its power to bring home Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and her Australian colleague Nigel Brennan. The two journalists were…
The next time I have a lousy work day, or despair about the state of journalism in Canada, I’m going to re-read this piece about José Rubén Zamora, editor of El Periódico: “When the Killers Come Calling: A Guatemalan journalist and his family are terrorized by a gang of thugs.” I especially like this line:…
A longtime journalist recently sent an email to a bunch of colleagues with notice of a typewriter for sale. The journalist sent along assurance that the machine works perfectly and is in excellent condition. His colleagues responded with some detailed queries about this “device.” Any questions of your own for the seller?
“In a scene reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Birds, a giant seagull stole the show on the Channel Nine News in Melbourne,” reported Australian online news.com.au. “The massively magnified bird walked across a real-time projection of the Melbourne cityscape behind newsreader Peter Hitchener’s head while he was reading a story about a 27-year-old…
The Toronto Star spun Stephen Harper’s alleged admission — “I don’t like to watch Canadian news” — into an entire column including reaction and confirmation about whether the prime minister takes in Canadian media. The quote: “I watched the last several elections in the United States very closely. I tend to watch mainly American news…
The U.S. White House and Fox News are in a de facto war. Now journalists are talking about whether to deal with the Fox News team as colleagues, or with the whole organization as a political player bent on attacking real fair and balanced journalism …