And more closures of community newspapers
“Four Sun Media employees lost their jobs when the Jasper Booster in Alberta closed this week after 46 years of community news, says former staffer Tim Shoults.”
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Further decimation of community newspapers at Sun Media
“Employees of the weekly Morinville Redwater Town & Country Examiner said their goodbyes in the final print edition of the Alberta paper this week, but the farewells were not posted online.” The trend is growing as smaller and medium size community newspaper are being closed down. While print editions may be too expensive to operation,…
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State of the Media report bleakest ever
As one might expect, this year’s annual State of the Media report produced by The Center for Excellence in Journalism makes for dismal reading. The most frightening problem highlighted by the report, however, is not the devastating financial havoc being wreaked on the traditional news media industry, it’s the lack of vision as to what…
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Re-thinking the CBC during crisis
Almost everybody, it seems, has an opinion on the future of the CBC…
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State of Media report includes warning
The 2009 report on the state of the American news media has been released online.The press-release summary of the massive report — running to nearly 180,000 words — is here. The full report is here. The report, by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, addresses eight major sectors: newspapers, online, network; cable,…
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Foreign correspondence not so “foreign”
“Foreign correspondence” is not as “foreign” as it used to be, reflects the India correspondent for the New York Times of the impact of global online media on concepts like “here” and “there.” Coverage that’s available universally is followed most passionately by those being covered, writes Anand Giridharadas, adding: “And the implications for foreign correspondence…
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Poll: Is a local newspaper important?
The Globe poll online as of Sunday evening): Do you think it’s important to have a local newspaper?No, online media can fill the gap — 18 per centNo, I don’t read my local paper 11 per centYes, a newspaper keeps me informed 46 per centYes, a newspaper holds government accountable 26 per centI suppose journalists…
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Is democracy written in disappearing ink?
That’s the title of a massive, must-read piece in the Globe and Mail about the decline of journalism. The sub-title says, “… if print is a dinosaur, what will take up its traditional roles — informing the public, animating civic culture and holding government accountable? For all the wonders of online media, so far no…
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Media literacy
This is one of the best journalism ideas I’ve heard all year: The U.S. Stony Brook University proposes to hire and train 50 laid-off journalists to teach a new discipline, “news literacy.” They’ll begin this fall at dozens of U.S. campuses, teaching non-journalism majors about the importance of news to democracy. A media giraffe piece…
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Jon Stewart vs Jim Cramer
Jon Stewart, the comedian on the Daily Show whose satire has achieved the bizarre reputation of being some of the most responsible U.S. “journalism,” has lately attacked the performance of the financial media, especially CNBC, as incompetent in their reporting of Wall Street, the 2008 economic collapse and sub-prime mortgage crisis. Stewart and CNBC host…