Journalist wins “alt” Nobel
Amy Goodman, founder and host of the U.S. syndicated radio and television program “Democracy Now!” was named as a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award …
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Chinese firm’s crisis management
A case study in crisis management and media relations, China, 2008: “Please can the government increase control and coordination of the media, to create a good environment for the recall of the company’s problem products …
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Harper’s plagiarized speech in media
Owen Lippert, a PhD historian with a lengthy track record in Canadian public policy and politics, including a term on the Globe and Mail’s editorial board in 1996, has admitted to plagiarism, apologized and resigned from the Conservative party’s election campaign. Lippert admitted that he wrote a speech for Stephen Harper, as then-leader of the…
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U.S. bill fights “libel tourism”
An editorial in the New York Times urges the American Senate to support legislation to prevent American courts from enforcing libel judgments obtained in foreign countries if those countries provide less free speech protection than the United States does. Excerpts: “The bill on “libel tourism” strikes an important blow for free expression. American law imposes…
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Mallick column removed, CBC apologizes
You cannot, in Canada, link a U.S. vice-presidential candidate with the phrases “white trash” and “porn-actress look” and get away with it, as columnist Heather Mallick found out this week when the CBC pulled her column.
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Europe’s new bilingual newspaper
A bilingual newspaper has been established on the Dutch-German border. Reports Der Spiegel: “The first issue of Buren (Neighbors) has just landed on the doormats of 400,000 residents in the region around Enschede on the Dutch-German border. The special collector’s item, as the paper’s editorial identifies itself, is a combined effort by the Dutch regional…
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SCOC to hear case of brown envelope
News organizations are hoping for a landmark ruling, after the Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear a case involving the confidentiality of journalistic sources. The case involves a supposed conflict between police criminal investigations and freedom of the press. The dispute focuses on a brown envelope sent to National Post reporter Andrew McIntosh in…
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CTV’s Afghan “fixer” home
An Afghan journalist held in a U.S. military prison for nearly one year was reunited with his family in Kandahar City Wednesday. Excerpts from a CTV story: “U.S. officials released Jawed Yazamy, in his early 20s, Sunday after holding him for 11 months at a base in Bagram, near Kabul. “Yazamy, who was working for…
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Online media surprise
The latest report of the Canadian Internet Project seems to defy the conventional wisdom that the Internet is killing journalism. An excerpt…
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Radio listening down
Notes from the newest Statistics Canada figures on radio listening: Last year Canadians listened to radio for 18.3 hours a week on average, continuing a trend that has seen a two-hour decline in weekly listening in the past decade. The most popular radio overall was adult contemporary music. CBC/Radio-Canada was the first choice among seniors,…