CTV: operating profits and job losses
CTVglobemedia cut jobs at The Globe and Mail, shut down morning news shows and threatened to abandon whole stations after earning an operating profit of 9.7 per cent in 2008.
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B.C. publisher buys San Diego newspaper
B.C. community newspaper publisher David Black has enough faith in newspapers that he’s involved himself in bigger American leagues….
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Out of crisis, a tough, truthful spirit
Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin: “To save journalism, bring on that Jon Stewart outrage…”
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The Daily Me
“The Daily Me” means going online as our own editor/gatekeeper, to select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. So what’s the problem?
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Replacing science journalism
Science journalism is in decline; science blogging is growing. The Science journal Nature looks at the issue — with a focus on the implications for science.
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Alberta newspaper faces consolidation as town loses local office and staff
“Weekly newspaper readers in Nanton, Alberta, are losing local access to the Nanton News office. Sun Media has announced it is closing the News office, but not the newspaper. It will be packaged and printed by staff at the High River Times.”
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Make CBC egghead Can-Con, says columnist
I rarely agree with the opinions that pervade the National Post, but I found myself cheering at parts of comment editor Jonathan Kay’s column praising the CBC for “intellectual elitism” — and calling on it to raise its game. After decades of listening and occasionally watching, the CBC has faded from my life, likely in…
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Intelligence axed in Seattle
It’s noteworthy and quite right that Hearst’s revised media product in Seattle makes no pretence at credibility by retaining the word “intelligence” in the name of the thingy that replaced the Post-Intelligencer…
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Manitoba considers cameras in courts
Manitoba is mulling over whether to give the public a front-row seat in the province’s courtrooms,” reports the Canadian Press. A committee appointed by the province’s chief judges is expected to recomment within months whether Manitoba should become the latest province to allow cameras in some courtrooms.
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Transcontinental in San Francisco brawl
Canada’s TransContintental Printing — and its plans to use non-union pressmen — have placed it in the middle of “a game of chicken between the Teamsters and the Hearsts” involving the threatened San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, reports the Columbia Journalism Review. The piece examines the “starkly different” local coverage of two Hearst-owned newspapers, the Seattle…