Canwest’s Leonard Asper lays blame
Canwest’s Leonard Asper blames the regulators for the woes of broadcasters such as Canwest’s Global…
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Canada “Third World” media nation?
Does concentrated ownership of media help render Canada a “Third World” nation? Elizabeth May thinks so — but her reasons and where she lays blame are contentious …
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Canwest series on newspaper woes
Canwest News Service has launched a series in its chain of newspapers examining the “siege mentality that is gripping the newspaper industry.” The topic is especially challenging in this series for two reasons. First, reporter David Akin (a superb journalist) now works for a company with the same owners who have historically stifled in-house criticism.…
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Journalism about goodness
In an investigative piece of journalism into human honesty, the Toronto Star dropped 20 wallets in urban and suburban locations. Most came back. Wow: journalism that affirms humanity’s capability for goodness. If we are to live up to our claim of writing history’s first draft, journalists need that once in a while, imo — just…
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Murdoch’s WSJ, revisited
The Nation considers whether, and how, the Wall Street Journal has changed under Rupert Murdoch’s ownership…
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Online newspaper audience up
Studies show visits to American newspaper Web sites are up by more than 10 per cent, and the audience demographics should be valuable to advertisers. Now if only Nielsen Online could answer the big question: how to get those online readers to pay for the journalism they consume?
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Covering violence in Afghanistan: a reporter’s view
Graeme Smith of The Globe and Mail and Mellissa Fung of CBC News are two of Canada’s best known foreign correspondents. They recently spoke about their experiences covering the war in Afghanistan at a Canadian Journalism Foundation event in Toronto. Jeffrey Dvorkin reports.
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Barbara Moon, remembered
Before Barbara Moon stopped writing and became a legendary editor “she wrote – as all good writers do – from the edges of her nerves ….
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“Not spin doctors,” says RCMP spokesman
Former RCMP spokesman Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre told a public inquiry he did “absolutely not” intentionally give the media inaccurate information following Robert Dziekanski’s death…
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rabble.ca on newspaper woes
Asked a forum organized by rabble.ca, “What’s wrong with our newspapers?” Answers from Peter C. Newman, Linda McQuaig and Wayne MacPhail included, respectively, “boring,” “corporate ownership,” and “anti-union intentions.” “The bad news about the news,” a report of the event by rabble.ca columnist Duncan Cameron, concludes with a call for community ownership.