“Women have made huge advances in TV sports broadcasting over the past 10 years,” writes William Houston in a Globe and Mail critique of women’s role in sports broadcasting. “There are more working in the business. They hold jobs as reporters, anchors and, in the United States, even play-by-play announcers.” “But as the numbers have…
The American Society of Newspaper Editors will vote next April on cutting the word “paper” from its name and expanding its membership to include editors of online-only news Web sites and journalism educators. From a society news release: “The new name would be the American Society of News Editors. The logo would remain the same:…
Why did neither of Canada’s two major all-news networks — CTV and CBC — for the first time fail to cover, live, the Dec. 16 repatriation ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Trenton for three more Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan? “… it takes less than a half-hour to unload the coffins of three young servants…
Between Obama and the Press, a piece in the upcoming New York Times Magazine, looks at how the relationship between the press and the new president might shape up — or not…
Quebecor Inc’s Canadian newspaper unit, Sun Media, announced 600 job cuts, 10 percent of its work force…
In a tone of hilarity and snickering approval the story of Iraqi “journalist” Muntadar al-Zaidi’s throwing his shoes at U.S. president George W. Bush at a news conference has flooded all forms of media. Responds an editorial in the Globe and Mail: “The moment world leaders think they will be the target of projectiles thrown…
Globe and Mail Africa correspondent Stephanie Nolen is taking up a new post in New Delhi and leaving Africa. The Globe published a remarkable first-person piece in which Nolen “bids farewell to a place she’s come to love, she reflects on how it has changed, and how it changed her.” She writes of covering African…
Under “mountains of debt and falling ad revenue” the Tribune Company, the American owner of The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune, filed for bankruptcy protection in a U.S. federal court, reported the New York Times. The company — along with its once-venerable newspapers — was bought last year by real estate investor Samuel…
Just as death notices are being written for newspapers someone has a new use for them. A new design for a coat lined with newspapers “is being hailed as a major breakthrough for street-level aid,” reported the Calgary Sun. The Salvation Army is handing out the “15 Below Jacket” to street people and the working…
The Council of Europe recently adopted a Convention on Access to Official Documents. The convention’s language is rather inspiring: it refers to aims of greater unity; ideals and principles; the importance in a pluralistic, democratic society of transparency of public authorities. There is quite a lot about the right to access to official documents to…