Review and Canadian magazines
It’s a tough time for Canadian magazines, but there are success stories — and ways to support publications….
-
-
Safety overseas
Canwest’s Mary Frances Hill reports on how “journalists who cover the world’s most dangerous stories rely on instinct and common sense for their protection.” The piece — prompted by the kidnapping and recent release of CBC reporter Mellissa Fung– includes anecdotes and tips from Claude Adams; Jonathan Fowlie; and Jane Armstrong.
-
API summit: Yep, it’s a crisis all right
What happens when you gather 50 U.S. newspaper executives and put them behind closed doors to brainstorm solutions to the troubles rocking their industry? The American Press Institute did that last week and the results were: Most agreed the newspaper business is in a state of crisis and … then they went home. Read API’s report.
-
Mellissa Fung case examined
Kathy English, The Toronto Star’s public editor, examines how media reported on two ethically-difficult cases: the kidnapping of CBC reporter Mellissa Fung in Afghanistan, and the jailing in North Korea of Alberta dental technician Je Yell Kim.
-
Bias? Prove it.
You want to claim the media’s biased? Incompetent? That there’s a conspiracy theory somewhere? Prove it.
-
Canwest hurting
The most interesting thing about the fourth-quarter results released by Canwest — with a shocking $1.02 billion loss — is that the newspaper division is making good money, albeit less than last year. Newspapers in the former…
-
CanWest cuts another 560 jobs
Facing a mountain of debt, nosediving stock prices and an economic slowdown, media giant CanWest is amputating another 560 Canadian jobs, about five per cent of its current workforce…
-
A lighter (sorta) take on API’s crisis summit
Mark Potts, author of the Recovering Journalist blog, has a few choice thoughts about the American Press Institute’s upcoming one-day summit of 50 newspaper executives, who are gathering in a closed-door session Nov. 13 to share thoughts about “saving an industry in crisis.” Potts suggests several potential answers to the question: How many newspaper executives…
-
The media criticism of Peter Watkins
Atlantic writer Michael Hirschorn has discovered media critic and filmmaker Peter Watkins, who specializes in historical and current-affairs re-creations like The War Game but whose “real subject,” wrote Hirschorn, is an intense critique of the media. The War Game in particular, said the Atlantic piece, provides “a deep, unerring analysis of how we use media…
-
Muslims need free speech protection: report
A report by a British think tank calls on governments in Europe to protect the free speech of Muslims against religious extremists. The report, Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech within Europe’s Muslim Communities, said official failure to offer victims the protection they needed had left significant numbers of Muslims unable to express themselves, reported…