“Newspapers and news magazines should seek to revitalize the provincial/regional press councils and ensure that identifiable groups are able to pursue complaints if they feel they have been unfairly represented in mainstream media,” declares an independent report about online hate speech, released by the Canadian Human Rights Commission…
“When technology shifts, it bends the culture,” observes Wired writer Kevin Kelly in a long, thinky piece in the New York Times Magazine’s Idea Lab section…
You can almost hear the huffing and puffing of the unsigned Canadian Press reporter who wrote about the “forced march” engineered by Pauline Marois. “Bleary-eyed and freezing, a group of journalists was forced to follow Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois for her regular morning walk under a dark pre-dawn sky,” reported CP plaintively. Marois had…
Newsflash: “China tells state media to report bad news.” The news was a Reuters scoop. What next? Journalism instead of propaganda?
“Media ban lifted on Ottawa prof’s bomb hearing.” Quite so.
Editors Weblog reports that Chris Cramer, Reuters’ global editor of multimedia for news, says “the editorial integrity of journalism is “threatened” by traditional and citizen journalists using the Internet to “distort” information …
Non-Citizen Black wants a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Christmas present from outgoing U.S. president George W. Bush. From the Globe and Mail: “NEW YORK, TORONTO — Conrad Black is pinning his hopes on clemency from U.S. President George W. Bush as a last-ditch effort to get out of jail early, and he wants his former publishing company to…
Net neutrality: 0, Bell: 1 Bell Canada has won the right to continue the practice called “Internet throttling” in a ruling from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission….
The current Columbia Journalism Review has a long, exhaustively-researched analysis of the digital information age, the role of journalists in informing citizens, and the capabilities of said citizens to become informed. The sub-title is: “Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of too much information.” The title (including exclamation mark) is: “Overload!” ’nuff said? Hat…
More people working in media are being cut this week. Sometimes these ongoing cuts seem like bloodletting, the medical treatment of barbaric physicians who more often than not killed their patients. In the media’s case perhaps…