Media outlets may be slashing jobs, reducing pages and shrinking expectations, but not all the news is bad at Canadian media companies, says Kelly Toughill. A glance through year-end reports finds some surprising reasons for optimism.
Well, make that three photos. But the top one gets my vote. From the Silicon Alley Insider, photos by Noah Berger of AP.
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.
B.C. community newspaper publisher David Black has enough faith in newspapers that he’s involved himself in bigger American leagues….
Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin: “To save journalism, bring on that Jon Stewart outrage…”
“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?
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.
“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.”
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…
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…