Citizens of Gabriola Island want a community radio station, so they can hear local culture on the air and have the benefit of emergency broadcasting. Rogers Communications wants them to step aside for lite rock programming from Victoria, and has decided to speak against the islanders’ CRTC application. This brings to mind the work of…
AnalysisCanadian journalists need a shield law to protect their confidential sources and ensure the free flow of information. That’s the conclusion of Diana Ginsberg, a graduate student in media law at London’s City University who examined how courts in Canada and Britain deal with attempts to expose media sources. While finding no conclusive proof sources…
“While the current economy certainly poses challenges for all businesses, the newspaper industry will evolve, as it always has in the face of a changing media landscape that included the invention of radio, television and now the Internet.” An Ohio-based newspaper publisher assures his readers about the future of his 150-year old community newspaper.
Charlie Smith of Vancouver’s Georgia Straight wondered whether libertarian columnist Terence Corcoran, for whom broadcast regulators (well, most regulators) were favourite targets, continued to excoriate the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission after CanWest took over his employer, the National Post. Noted Smith, “Corcoran found himself in the uncomfortable position where if he ripped into the…
“Squamish – The Chief has been named the best in Canada by the Canadian Community Newspapers Association (CCNA). The Chief won best all-around newspaper in its circulation category, the CCNA announced Monday (March 16).”
The veteran newspaper entrepreneur, it appears, is one of the few people optimistic about the future of British local newspapers. Sir Ray has acquired five newspapers in the East Devon area from The View From Group, saving 25 jobs.
“George Le Masurier, who has been publisher of two McClatchy Co. weeklies in Washington state, was named president and publisher of The Olympian in Olympia, Wash. He replaces John Winn Miller, who resigned in January.”
Since 1871, The Pickens Sentinel, in South Carolina, has served it community and took a moment to remind its readers how important the newspaper is the to community. “With the nation plunging into recession and with the never-ending stream of bad economic news, there’s much focus on the decline of newspaper circulation in most of…
“Community newspapers were impacted by the challenging economy but in a much smaller way than the industry in general, according to fourth quarter 2008 financial data collected by the trade associations Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA) and National Newspaper Association (NNA).”
“ Honolulu Star-Bulletin owner David Black has become part owner of the San Diego Union-Tribune. The purchase, by Beverly Hills private-equity firm Platinum Equity, was announced today. The price was undisclosed and Black was described as part of the team. La Jolla-based Copley Press Inc. had put the paper on the market in July and…