Police camera seizures
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….
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Re-imagining journalism
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…
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Vancouver police seize journalist’s camera
Vancouver police roughed up a photographer with the Province newspaper and briefly confiscated his camera ….
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NYT publisher: lightweight cheerleader — or last, best defender?
“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…
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Record profit for European newspaper Bild
“As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in its 62-year history,” reported the New York Times. Said Springer chief executive Mathias Döpfner, “I don’t believe in the end of journalism.” “I don’t believe….”…
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Alt-obscenity
Here’s a lede you’ll see only in alt-media: “Shane McConkey was one crazy motherfucker.”Will that kind of a lead consign the outlet that runs it (in this case, by the B.C. online magazine The Tyee) to always being alt-media? When is the use of obscenity appropriate?
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Lose the jargon, academics told
“Academic jargon that obscures meaning must be replaced by crisp, understandable conclusions,” said an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, by CMAJ section editor Noni MacDonald and André Picard…
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Harper’s media management, and U.S. access.
Why is Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper courting American journalists when Canadian journalists, and our audience, are almost shut out?
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Does B.C. Business Magazine have credibility?
B.C. journalist and blogger Sean Holman takes Peter Legge, publisher of B.C. Business Magazine, to task for an unabashed — and unannounced — promo of the politician Legge supports in the upcoming election.
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CBC bloodbath
CBC to cut up to 800 jobs, sell assets….