Finally, Canada’s largest newspaper chain is officially for sale. Senior lenders to struggling Canwest Global Communications Corp, made up of a consortium of Canadian banks, made a bid. It follows a voluntary court filing for protection from creditors, which covers Canwest Publishing, Canwest Books and Canwest Canada Inc. — all of Canwest’s newspapers, digital media,…
*Vidéastes Leslie Doumrec et Émilie Fondaneche.
Say farewell to the TV generation. The Internet is our new addiction. In a recent survey by market researcher Synovate, 88 per cent of Canadian respondents said they could not live without Internet access or would miss it a lot, compared to just 70 per cent who felt the same about television. What would Neil Postman say?
A study of Twitter usage by the top 100 U.S. newspapers found that while all hosted feeds, almost 40 per cent didn’t link to those feeds from their websites. The Bivings Group study also reported many newspaper tweeters did not make effective use of the social media application’s reply capabilities to interact with readers.
Hundreds of reporters have briefly embedded with Canadian forces in Afghanistan and, in most cases, returned to their regular beats at home. After the tragic death of Calgary health reporter Michelle Lang, former military journalist Bob Bergen questions whether this is the right approach to covering the armed forces at war.
Benefits for thousands of retired Canadian newspaper workers are at risk. Reported the Hamilton Spectator: “About 3,000 retirees of the Southam newspaper chain, including former Spectator staff, received a letter just before Christmas warning them their retirement benefits are in jeopardy. While coverage will continue “for the time being,” the retirees were warned the company…
Michelle Lang’s death capped the “deadliest year ever” for media workers, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, with reports of deaths ranging from 68 to 130. At Berkeley campus, a panel of American war correspondents asked the big question: why do we risk our lives for a largely complacent public? The simple answer is,…
* Ces vidéos ont été réalisés pour la FPJQ dans le cadre de son congrès annuel qui se tenait du 13 au 15 novembre 2009 à Sherbrooke. Vidéastes Leslie Doumrec et Émilie Fondaneche.
What is the shocked journalism community to take from the death of a young reporter who had so much to live for? Cliff Lonsdale, president of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, offers some reflections.
A note pad and a pencil – tools of our trade – adorned journalist Michelle Lang’s casket on Friday on the Kandahar Airfield as it was carried to the aircraft to return to Canada. The Calgary Herald reporter was killed Wednesday when a landmine exploded under the light armoured vehicle that she was riding in, along with…