Changing face of community journalism in Africa
This surprising account of new technology being used in Africa by journalists demonstrates how community newspapers are transforming around the world.
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Ontario lifts court file restriction
NewsToronto (April 1, 2009) – The Ontario government has reversed a controversial policy that blocked access to court files in cases subject to a publication ban. Journalists objected to the policy for years, arguing it made it difficult to fully and accurately cover criminal cases. In announcing the change, Attorney General Chris Bentley said openness…
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Oklahoma community newspaper reaches out to unemployed
“A community service program designed to bring together people looking for good jobs and employers looking for good people is being launched by Neighbor Newspapers Called Community Employ Ease, the campaign officially begins April 1 at all 12 of the company’s community newspapers in northeast Oklahoma.” An innovative approach to the current recession and another…
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NYT publisher: lightweight cheerleader — or last, best defender?
“With a doomsday clock ticking for newspapers as we know them, no one has more at stake than fourth-generation New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., who is scrambling to keep his family’s prized asset alive,” said the intro on a Vanity Fair piece about Sulzberger by Mark Bowden. “Some see him as a…
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Group publishers are taking over
Instead of one publisher per newspaper, group publishers are now the norm. That might make sense for geographic regions in rural areas; however, Sun Media are now creating publisher positions for entire provinces. See link for details of a new configuration in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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More centralization of editing at Sun Media
“Three union editors at Sun Media’s Brantford Expositor were notified today they will be laid off as of May 1, says a TSF source.” It appears a regional pagination centre is being created.
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Sun-Times failure could affect more than 80 community newspapers
The faltering of the Sun-Times Media Group has far-reaching implications for 83 smaller newspapers. The company owns community papers in the Metropolitan Chicago area and surrounding suburbs, as well as other papers through Illinois and Indiana. The implications are staggering for those communities.
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A case against non-profit community newspapers
“Nonprofit status would muffle or silence newspapers’ editorial voice and add in layers of regulatory control that we cannot begin to predict, going in.”
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Record profit for European newspaper Bild
“As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in its 62-year history,” reported the New York Times. Said Springer chief executive Mathias Döpfner, “I don’t believe in the end of journalism.” “I don’t believe….”…
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Alt-obscenity
Here’s a lede you’ll see only in alt-media: “Shane McConkey was one crazy motherfucker.”Will that kind of a lead consign the outlet that runs it (in this case, by the B.C. online magazine The Tyee) to always being alt-media? When is the use of obscenity appropriate?