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.
The news-“paper” Seattle Post-Intelligencer is no more. After Tuesday, the venerable American publication will exist online only, as a ghost of its former self….
As one might expect, this year’s annual State of the Media report produced by The Center for Excellence in Journalism makes for dismal reading. The most frightening problem highlighted by the report, however, is not the devastating financial havoc being wreaked on the traditional news media industry, it’s the lack of vision as to what…
Almost everybody, it seems, has an opinion on the future of the CBC…
The 2009 report on the state of the American news media has been released online.The press-release summary of the massive report — running to nearly 180,000 words — is here. The full report is here. The report, by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, addresses eight major sectors: newspapers, online, network; cable,…
“Foreign correspondence” is not as “foreign” as it used to be, reflects the India correspondent for the New York Times of the impact of global online media on concepts like “here” and “there.” Coverage that’s available universally is followed most passionately by those being covered, writes Anand Giridharadas, adding: “And the implications for foreign correspondence…
The Globe poll online as of Sunday evening): Do you think it’s important to have a local newspaper?No, online media can fill the gap — 18 per centNo, I don’t read my local paper 11 per centYes, a newspaper keeps me informed 46 per centYes, a newspaper holds government accountable 26 per centI suppose journalists…