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Reports the New York Times: With print revenue down and online revenue growing, newspaper executives are anticipating the day when big city dailies and national papers will abandon their print versions. That…

The April edition of Policy Options has an interesting piece by SFU communications researcher Catherine Murray, about Canada’s ethnic media. Murray discusses in part, the emergence of “multiple solitudes.” From the introduction:…

Elizabeth Edwards, whose husband John Edwards was a contender in the U.S. Democratic primaries for the presidential election, assesses the state of American journalism and finds it wanting. But much more interesting…

Globe and Mail reporter Jane Armstrong was arrested, fined and then expelled from Chechnya “on the grounds that she did not have proper accreditation,” said Reporters Without Borders. Noted a release from…

The Magpie, the quirky east-side magazine store that became a sort-of Vancouver institution, is closing. A couple of excerpts from a piece in the Vancouver Sun that captures some of the Magpie’s…

An influential civil liberties group has slammed CanWest Global, the giant media company fond of using the law to squelch criticism of itself, for  an attempt to “to silence satirical criticism and…

“Canadian media give inordinate coverage to health care issues and largely ignore the ‘non-medical’ determinants of health … This coverage is at odds with our research which shows that Canadians see homelessness…

As details emerge in the story of Allan Schoenborn, a suspect in the slaying of his three children in Merritt, B.C., the initial coverage of the case  looks more and more bizarre.…

A feast for the eyes … Oh, OK, just because words help (sometimes) to explain: The winners of the National Pictures Of The Year Awards were announced April 20 by the News…

What does the latest kerfuffle involving the Audit Bureau of Circulations mean? The Financial Post reports that three of Canada’s large newspaper publishers —  Torstar Sun Media and Transcontinental — are pulling…