Derek Weiler, literary critic and editor-in-chief of Canadian book industry magazine Quill & Quire, has died at age 40. Quill & Quire reported his death on its web site, and posted an obituary, here. CBC noted that “Weiler had reportedly battled health problems for some time. The cause of death was not announced.”
The New York Times has launched its “Global Edition,” combining the international reporting of the Times and the International Herald Tribune to provide a “24/7 flow of geopolitical, business, sports and fashion coverage from a distinctly global perspective.” But, but, but … I thought that was the purpose of the IHT? Indeed it was —…
The Tyee asks: “Could New Breed of ‘Low Profit’ Firms Save Our News Media?” A story considers whether hybrid ownership models, now operating in US and UK using charitable and private capital, might work in Canada.
The Vancouver police department formally apologized to the Province newspaper for “retaining the camera belonging to their photographer Jason Payne for longer than we should have,” Chief Constable Jim Chu told a news conference….
Canwest Global Communications Corp was again given some breathing room by its lenders…
A decision by the British Columbia Court of Appeal gives Adbusters the right to sue broadcasters CBC and CanWest Global for refusing to screen anti-consumerist television ads, which were pulled after car companies complained…
The BC Civil Liberties Association filed a complaint with the Vancouver Police Board, following the brief seizure of Province newspaper photographer Jason Payne’s camera….
The online magazine The Tyee is running a series on journalism by Steve Anderson, coordinator of Canadians for Democratic Media and the Stop the Big Media Takeover campaign. Anderson’s first piece, “Why Big Media Is Failing,” blames Canada’s media crisis on “the highly concentrated media ownership in Canada combined with the deepening bottom-line mentality of…
Vancouver police roughed up a photographer with the Province newspaper and briefly confiscated his camera ….
“With a doomsday clock ticking for newspapers as we know them, no one has more at stake than fourth-generation New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., who is scrambling to keep his family’s prized asset alive,” said the intro on a Vanity Fair piece about Sulzberger by Mark Bowden. “Some see him as a…