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…
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted most of the Canwest Global Communications organization protection from creditors at mid-morning Tuesday, ending years of uncertainty about Canwest’s massive debt load. The company, which closed closed in trading Monday with its shares at .235, announced the court order. A Globe and Mail story said…
More than a dozen Canadian writers’ groups banded together and issued a boycott notice against Transcontinental on September 30. “It’s about time that independent writers got our act together,” writes Deborah Jones in this Town Hall post. At issue is the Transcontinental Master Agreement, viewed by many freelancers as a rights grab. The agreement is…
Despite widespread calls for changes in Section 13 of the federal Human Rights Act, Prime Minister Harper is doing nothing about it. Why? Because the Conservatives don’t want to do anything that opposition parties might use to paint them as social conservatives – so “no movement on abortion, family issues or free speech – yes,…
What happens when investigative journalism intersects with the travel industry? A unique website that employs undercover visits and undoctored photography to review hotel rooms.
“Fifty years ago, The Globe and Mail became the first Western newspaper to open a bureau in what was then known as Red China. Beijing correspondent Mark MacKinnon reflects on what’s changed since then and what hasn’t.” — From the FOCUS section of The Globe and Mail