The Toronto Star and CBC radio 3 recently launched new websites heavily influenced by social media and customized interactivity. The new Toronto Star site provides four different views of the news: standard, visual, timeline and grid. While not a completely customizable interface, it offers more than others. But it fails to recognize new forms of…
Great column about a closed conference where the future of news was discussed. “One of the favorite parlor games in the blogosphere these days is to bash newspapers. We are often compared to tyrannosarus rex — desperately clinging to our newsprint while we slip into the La Brea Tar Pits.” Lots of talk about hyperlocal…
The closure of a local television station in Brandon, Man., continues to demonstrate the lack of vision by business-types high up in news organizations. On the surface, it is hard to argue saving an unprofitable enterprise. No one is saying that here. However, the opportunity to innovate and convert the rich resources at the station…
There is a good article in Inside Higher Ed regarding the Renaissance of local news coverage. It focuses on the recent partnership between business and journalism schools to offer hyperlocal news to communities. The growing trend of hyperlocal news, a form of highly localized community news and information, is particularly significant. As news organizations search…
It is interesting to note over the past week, the Toronto Star is featuring “exclusive” stories, along with investigative and enterprise stories, on the front page of their print edition. The editors are also profiling follow-up stories to previous investigative stories, ensuring audiences are aware of the impact of the initial work. While some might…
In a special issue, Journalism examines how transformations in the media business are impacting working conditions and labour practices in the journalism workplace. Articles include: “Compressed dimensions in digital media occupations: Journalists in transformation,” by Amy Schmitz Weiss and Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce “Token responses to gendered newsrooms: Factors in the career-related decisions of…
Although recent Pew surveys in the United States have documented a serious decline in the public’s perception of news media’s performance in areas like accuracy and neutrality, the role played by the press in monitoring and criticizing government and politicians continues to be regarded as a valuable and important public service.
“We don’t intend to be one of the corpses lying beside the information highway,” says Israel Asper, chairman of Canwest Global.” The CBC archives captured what family head Izzy Asper said as the Aspers helped themselves to a vast plateful of Canadian journalism just after the takeover, back when media concentration (and American sub-prime mortgages…
Blogged Warren Kinsella: “My sincere hope, naïve as it may be, is that the amazing journalists and editors at Canwest hold onto their jobs, and that they emerge stronger than before. “Someone needs to be thrown under the bus for this mess, but it’s not the working journalists, that’s for damn sure.” Hear, hear.
There are lots of questions about Canwest and the future of its many media operations, after much of the company was granted creditor protection Tuesday. But here’s one question that’s fascinated me as shares of Canwest Global Communications zipped up and down as though on a bungee cord. Most recently they went up to .235…