Brian Gorman, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. Paperback, 320 pages, $32.95. By Marc Edge Looking for insight into the ongoing crisis in newspapering by reading news reports and commentary has been fruitless for most non-economists, as evidenced by the latest round of layoffs and consolidation, which only…
Here’s our regular update on the moves, hires and promotions in Canadian journalism for Jan. 28 to Feb. 10. Remember to notify us of any journalism job news on Twitter and with the hashtag #cdnmediamoves. [View the story “Media on the Move: Jan. 28 to Feb. 10” on Storify]
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Eighteen days into the Chronicle Herald strike, and all of the statements from Mark Lever have come in the pages of the newspaper he runs. The CEO and president of Halifax Herald Ltd. has not granted interviews to outside media as the strike at the Herald drags on, instead responding…
By Lana Hall In 2014, CBC correspondent Adrienne Arsenault cut her vacation short to accept a gig covering the worst outbreak of Ebola in history. She barely hesitated. “I can’t imagine saying no. I don’t think it’s in our DNA to say no,” she said. “I don’t think we could have lived with ourselves if…
By Christopher Johnson Want to own Canada’s largest newspaper chain? Maybe you can. If over 5,000 former and current Postmedia journalists each invested $7,750, they could own the company’s market capitalization of $41 million on the Toronto Stock Exchange. That’s at a share price of 24 cents, a fraction of its $15 value four years…
By Nicole Cohen Over the past few weeks, journalists and commentators have been debating how to make sense of the recent round of layoffs in Canadian journalism. Two Canadian researchers are interested in hearing from journalists themselves about the experience of job loss, either through a layoff or a voluntary buyout. Canadian media companies have…
By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail The Zika virus and the health fears have grabbed the attention of the public and the media. While the interest is there, there have also been calls to use caution in the coverage of the virus and its link to serious birth defects such as microcephaly (babies…
By Esther Enkin, for the CBC The complainant, Nicholas Doyle, said he was disgusted by the lack of journalistic integrity when reporters went into the home of the perpetrators of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. He said it added little insight and was an invasion of privacy. I found that CBC reporters were…
By Diana Mehta for The Canadian Press The judge hearing the Jian Ghomeshi sexual assault trial refused Thursday to release a bikini photo of a woman who testified against the disgraced broadcaster, saying courts have an obligation to protect the privacy and reduce the trauma of those who come forward. Ghomeshi’s trial heard earlier this week that…
By Priya Ramanujam for New Canadian Media At a time when national and local mainstream media seem to be downsizing and shutting down daily, where does Canada’s ethnic media fit in? And how will these outlets survive? The 2015 Canadian edition of the Global Media Journal, edited by Rukhsana Ahmed, explores these questions with five research papers that…