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Michael Cooke will become the new editor of the Toronto Star on March 1, the paper announced. Cooke replaces…

The Canadian Press has made its Stylebook and Caps and Spelling Caps and Spelling guides available for sale online, for $6.25 per month. The advantage, it says, is a reporter can access it from anywhere in the world. Hmmm. For $75 per year I think I’ll just keep using the dead-tree version that’s beside my…

“The corps of journalists covering Washington D.C. at the dawn of the Obama Administration is not so much smaller as it is dramatically transformed,” said a report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The report used the word shock in describing the degree to which “what we once thought of as the mainstream news…

Profits at Canada’s biggest private television broadcasters plunged by almost 93 per cent last year, said a report from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Amid comments about the Canadian Press story on the Globe and Mail site (why does the Globe not at least rate the angry torrent of drivel?) is this sage observation:…

In yet another twist on user-pay, US-based Spot.us solicits reader donations to cover the cost of journalistic investigations. The problem? The reporting just isn’t very good, says James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times.

What on earth are the British thinking these days, aiming their guns at their messengers? The Brits harassed five top financial journalists who appeared at a government hearing in London to defend themselves against accusations their reporting caused panic and helped escalate the financial crisis in the U.K. Reported a story on CBC.ca: “An independent…

Canadian-Egyptian journalist Heba Aly was expelled by Sudan, where she had been reporting for the Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg and Irin, reported AFP. A Canadian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman spoke out against the expulsion, saying Canada is “concerned” and has “have contacted the Sudanese authorities, including the foreign minister, to get an explanation and express our…

Can’t get enough about how to fund newspapers in the 21st century? The latest to weigh in is Jack Shafer on Slate.com. His verdict: It’s a bad idea to divorce the newspaper from market pressures.

We know online video is popular, but the latest US numbers were startling nevertheless: US Internet users viewed 14.3 billion (yup, with a “b”) in December alone–averaging 96 (!) videos per Internet user for that month.

Less than two years after pulling down the pay wall, NY Times executive editor Bill Keller has hinted that a consumer-pays model may reappear on the paper’s website, says a report on The Huffington Post.