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Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin: “To save journalism, bring on that Jon Stewart outrage…”

“The Daily Me” means going online as our own editor/gatekeeper, to select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. So what’s the problem?

Science journalism is in decline; science blogging is growing. The Science journal Nature looks at the issue — with a focus on the implications for science.

I rarely agree with the opinions that pervade the National Post, but I found myself cheering at parts of comment editor Jonathan Kay’s column praising the CBC for “intellectual elitism” — and calling on it to raise its game. After decades of listening and occasionally watching, the CBC has faded from my life, likely in…

It’s noteworthy and quite right that Hearst’s revised media product in Seattle makes no pretence at credibility by retaining the word “intelligence” in the name of the thingy that replaced the Post-Intelligencer…

Manitoba is mulling over whether to give the public a front-row seat in the province’s courtrooms,” reports the Canadian Press. A committee appointed by the province’s chief judges is expected to recomment within months whether Manitoba should become the latest province to allow cameras in some courtrooms.

Canada’s TransContintental Printing — and its plans to use non-union pressmen — have placed it in the middle of “a game of chicken between the Teamsters and the Hearsts” involving the threatened San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, reports the Columbia Journalism Review. The piece examines the “starkly different” local coverage of two Hearst-owned newspapers, the Seattle…

“A non-profit society that wants to set up a low-wattage, community radio station on Gabriola Island is worried opposition from Rogers Communications will stop their application for a broadcast licence,” reports the Victoria Times-Colonist. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will hear on March 30 the dispute between Rogers, backed by Industry Canada, and the…

“Former Rocky Mountain News staffers plan to start an online newspaper if they get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23 — what would have been the News’ 100th anniversary,” reported Editor and Publisher. The historic paper was axed by its corporate owners, E.W. Scripps Co., last month.  Got $4.99 a month U.S. to help launch…

Judy Maddren, best known as the host of World Report on CBC Radio, is leaving the public broadcaster after more than three decades at the microphone. A CBC report said Maddren is leaving the CBC to focus on her own business, Sound Portraits, in which she interviews people and records their life stories.