“Entering 2009, the future of media is undoubtedly a quandary, with no end of head-scratching across the industry. As with everything these days, it seems that it all comes down to radically changing economics. There are way too many conversations about the future of media, news, journalism, etc. going on out there that don’t reference…
Great article on video for newspapers…“If you work in New Media, the answer should be obvious. Nevertheless, there are still many newspapers that don’t understand why. Some merely offer online video as a novelty featured under the title ‘Multimedia.’”
Two production staff lost their jobs recently as Metroland moves to consolidate newsroom production at its Oshawa offices. Sales staff and reporters will remain in Brighton. This is part of a trend to regionalize production facilities within Metroland and other publications for smaller communities. Peterborough Examiner production staff were laid off recently as Sun Media…
The Guardian joined two newspapers and one website into a single newsroom to meet the demands of current conditions…
CUNY joins with the New York Times to provide coverage of local neighbourhoods…
The New York Times is joining a growing list of mainstream news organizations trying citizen journalism as a means of covering hyper-local news…
Vincent Destouches, étudiant en journalisme, Université Concordia | Le journaliste est un « agent » du public, du moins originellement. Il est censé représenter le peuple, aller chercher et découvrir la vérité des faits en son nom, et faire vivre ainsi la démocratie. Mais l’évolution de la société n’a pas joué en faveur de son…
Canwest Global Communications Corp. won a reprieve on some of its debt problems until April 7. The company will use the time “to negotiate borrowing terms on its debt with senior lenders and said it was working with noteholders and other stakeholders to recapitalize the company,” reported the CanWest-owned National Post. The company had a…
The online magazine The Tyee is running a series on journalism by Steve Anderson, co-ordinator of Canadians for Democratic Media and the Stop the Big Media Takeover campaign. Anderson’s first piece, “Why Big Media Is Failing,” blames Canada’s media crisis on “the highly concentrated media ownership in Canada combined with the deepening bottom-line mentality of…
The Canadian Press, already embroiled in restructuring, took a major blow from Quebecor Inc., which announced it will pull out of the news co-operative in mid 2010 to cut costs, and grow its own in-house news agency, said reports. Quebecor — owner of the Sun Media and Osprey chains — is CP’s biggest media member…