The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission released two backgrounder reports on ways to regulate new media, commissioned before a public hearing on new media. “The CRTC commissioned the reports but did not in any way mandate the outcomes,” said its press release. The CRTC is not bound by the report’s findings, noted an online report…
Freelance journalist Guy-André Kieffer disappeared in 2004 in Abidjan, where he was investigating a story about corruption in the cocoa trade. Kieffer spent some time in Canada, where he fathered a son, and he has dual Canadian-French citizenship. His case has been the subject of an intense investigation by France. Is the Canadian government doing…
Reported the Globe’s Report on Business: “The struggling stock of CanWest Global Communications Corp. [CGS-T] is poised to suffer another blow – deletion from Canada’s benchmark stock index.” The Globe noted that Standard & Poor will soon announce quarterly revisions to the S&P/TSX composite index, and “CanWest’s market capitalization as of the end of August appears…
Admits Christie Blatchford in a Globe and Mail column titled, I’m not blogging this, mark my words: “I have written some astonishingly banal columns in my life, and some very personal ones.” Um …. yes. Indeed, the cringe factor makes me think twice about reading whenever I spot a Blatchford byline. And yet I do…
Twitter, moblogs, wikis, feeds, social bookmarks, tagging, IM, RSS, crowdsourcing, citjour – there’s no shortage of new tools and new ways to do journalism on the web. Everyone knows journalism is transforming – but to what? If you are feeling a little overwhelmed, check out “A Model for the 21st Century Newsroom.” It’s a terrific…
The ethics of reporting on China’s Olympic games are increasingly muddy. The International Olympic Committee has admitted it is allowing China to censor what foreign journalists can read while in China (in fact, the IOC has no choice). This is contrary to repeated promises by the IOC and China. Chinese censors block reporters at Olympic…
Reports the New York Times: ”Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, nearly as many print less national news, and despite new demands on newsrooms like blogs and video, most of them have smaller news staffs, according to a new study.” (So much for globalization…. or…
Tony Snow, best-known as a one-time White House spokesman for U.S. President George W. Bush and also a conservative editorialist, commentator and a host on a Fox cable show in the U.S., has died of cancer, age 53. Excerpts from an Associated Press story in the Globe and Mail: Said Bush, “It was a joy…
A Globe and Mail piece by Sinclair Stewart summarizes the kerfuffle involving Fox News vs the New York Times, which has been making American media news lately. The focus is on photographs of two Times reporters allegedly doctored by Fox. As Stewart said, they “have stirred a froth about journalistic ethics in media circles here,…
A one-year report card from PEN (the pdf is here) noted that seven months ago, the freedom of expression group called on the Chinese government to: • release all writers and journalists currently imprisoned and stop detaining, harassing, and censoring writers and journalists in China; • end Internet censorship and reform laws used to imprison…