Several community papers are on the ropes, including the Morinville and Jasper papers, prompting a Globe and Mail online poll: Is a local newspaper important? The question follows a recent U.S. poll that found local papers won’t be missed by many. Whether the day’s tidings appear in newsprint, on a cell phone or hammered into…
“Former Rocky Mountain News staffers plan to start an online newspaper if they get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23 — what would have been the News’ 100th anniversary,” reported Editor and Publisher. The historic paper was axed by its corporate owners, E.W. Scripps Co., last month. Got $4.99 a month U.S. to help launch…
Judy Maddren, best known as the host of World Report on CBC Radio, is leaving the public broadcaster after more than three decades at the microphone. A CBC report said Maddren is leaving the CBC to focus on her own business, Sound Portraits, in which she interviews people and records their life stories.
The news-“paper” Seattle Post-Intelligencer is no more. After Tuesday, the venerable American publication will exist online only, as a ghost of its former self….
“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.”
“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,…
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…
Almost everybody, it seems, has an opinion on the future of the CBC…
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,…
“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…