“CBC has selected a comprehensive suite of Web content management solutions to build and manage its various online sites in support nationwide TV and radio initiatives.” What is most interesting about this announcement is the decentralization of IT to the regions, giving the local newsrooms more control over content.
[Updated June 30] On Sunday, June 21, Maziar Bahari, a Canadian-Iranian journalist and filmmaker working in Tehran, was taken into custody by men believed to be Iranian security officials. He was arrested at 7:00 on Sunday morning at the apartment he shares with his mother. A laptop and several videotapes were seized from the apartment.On…
The New Orleans Times-Picayune is the top paper in the United States in terms of market reach, according to a new U.S. study by The Media Audit, a communications consulting firm. The newspaper reaches 77 per cent of all adults in New Orleans, according to the audit. When its online site, nola.com, is included, the…
Teens still like television, radio and newspapers and aren’t abandoning traditional media for the Internet, according to a new study.The Nielsen Company recently released a study of media use by American teens. It found that teens watch less online video than adults, and spend less time on the internet than adults do.
Cecil Rosner examines how two renowned investigative journalists handle sourcing and concludes that whatever the approach, relying on a single source is always a risky venture.
Chris Waddell, who has been the associate director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication for the last three years, is set to take over as interim director in July. He replaces Karim H. Karim, who has been the director for the past three years. Karim is stepping down…
From his hospital bed, Mark Glaser, of PBS MediaShift, had time to think about 10 fundamental ways newspapers can change to save themselves.
“Proliferating blogs and micro-sites are producing so much local news, hard and soft, that the continuing shrinkage and even death of metro papers will leave no troubling void in metro coverage, Mark Potts concludes in an extensively linked post on his Recovering Journalist blog. Potts comes close to putting metros collectively in the past tense.…
“If newspapers are to rise from the obituary page, the people in charge better learn how to sell them as an important advertising vehicle and an irreplaceable voice in their communities. That means they need to embrace new media to avoid getting eaten by it. Reporters must get out from behind their desks and do…