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…
Ten years ago today B.C. newspaper publisher Tara Singh Hayer was gunned down, becoming the first journalist killed in Canada for doing his work.
Bon mots from Rupert Murdoch’s radio address for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (is the News Corp. chair trying to buy that too?), in which he argues newspaper industry doomsayers are “misguided cynics” and the Internet is an exciting opportunity…
Now this is just sad: a Mother Jones photo essay of a dying newsroom. Pictures are worth 1,000 words — especially when there are no more words being written.
Murray Brewster of the Canadian Press has an interesting angle on the media secrecy around Mellissa Fung’s kidnapping. An excerpt of the story:“Keeping the public in the dark about what could have been a politically explosive incident – Fung was kidnapped two days before a federal election – has set “a huge precedent,” according to…
Was Dan Rather’s career and reputation hijacked by his employer CBS trying to mollify the U.S. Republican far right?
Hard lesson: if you attempt censorship, you better hope it works….