“Quietly, The Globe and Mail has shut down the Moscow bureau it opened in 1986,” Twittered Globe and Mail East Asia correspondent Mark MacKinnon. “Lights finally went out at Kaluzhskaya Ploschad on Nov 1.” Lawrence Martin’s Remembrance Day column for the Globe, about reporting on glasnost in Russia — and the opening of that Moscow…
CanWest shares — delisted at the close of trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange — will start trading Monday on the TSX Venture exchange, the company announced. As a CBC story noted, “companies lose their listings for failure to abide by the rules of the stock exchange.” Exchange rules exclude companies which have dropped…
Alleged quote by Rupert Murdoch on his intent to sue broadcasters like the BBC for stealing the work of print journalists … oops, make that “copyright infringement”: “If you look at them, most of their stuff is stolen from the newspapers now, and we’ll be suing them for copyright … They will have to spend…
Le magazine Trente, magazine spécialisé en journalisme, a maintenant son blogue. L’objectif : une couverture quasi quotidienne de l’actualité des médias.
Congratulations to Linden MacIntyre, winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop’s Man (Random House Canada). As an investigative journalist MacIntyre co-hosts of The Fifth Estate on CBC; he has won nine Gemini Awards for broadcast journalism. His most recent non-fiction book was a boyhood memoir called Causeway: A Passage from…
Frontline/World and the Center for Investigative Reporting have announced a unique joint project which will encompass radio, print, television and online reports. Over the next year, they will report on what they call the “soon to be trillion-dollar carbon trading market.” With climate change such a pressing issue in the world today, this shapes up…
J-Source’s Covering Health Crises section has become a cauldron of news and views about journalism’s role when pandemics strike. The section anxiously awaits your comments. Food for thought includes: Is the media going overboard? Pregnant women, pandemics and politics Some day, you’ll cover a health crisis Clearly, journalists across Canada are struggling with the line…
“Is Stephen Harper going too far in trying to control his image?” asks The Globe and Mail. “The Prime Minister’s Office is sending out a steady stream of publicity photos in the hope they will be used in newspapers and blogs across the country. But photojournalists believe Harper’s handlers are going too far…” This link…
Journalists recall covering Germany’s “9/11” — 20 years ago — when the Cold War that had seized the world for some two generations symbolically began to melt….