The Times & CUNY (and others) go hyperlocal
CUNY joins with the New York Times to provide coverage of local neighbourhoods…
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‘New York Times’ to Launch Local Citizen Journalism Sites
The New York Times is joining a growing list of mainstream news organizations trying citizen journalism as a means of covering hyper-local news…
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Le journalisme citoyen : quand la démocratie réagit
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…
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Aspers and CanWest get reprieve
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…
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Re-imagining journalism
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…
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Quebecor leaves CP
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…
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Photojournalist Tom Hanson dead at 41
Canadian Press reported that award-winning CP photojournalist Tom Hanson, “a fierce champion of journalistic rights whose sometimes brusque manner belied a devoted husband with a gentle soul,” has died suddenly after collapsing while playing hockey. The Canadian Press story — an elegant and sad elegy by James Mccarten — is here.
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Media Cloud: Automated media research tool open for testing
Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society is beta testing an open-source, automated online media research tool called Media Cloud. According to the Center, Media Cloud software can already code full-text content from an extensive range of traditional and new media outlets, including blogs, and issue comparative reports about news subjects, terminology correlations and geographic…
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Censorship: Alberta to create movie czar
CBC reports on Alberta’s new censorship law, Bill 19, “New Alberta film bill creates movie czar, inspectors.” Cinema owners and movie distributors in Alberta are upset, said CBC, because the law would “create a team of theatre inspectors and a new movie czar with indisputable authority” that could act on the “whim” of the government.…
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Rogers & Shaw to CRTC: CanCon web levy is illegal
Rogers Communications vice-chairman Phil Lind told the CRTC that a proposed small levy to support online Canadian content is illegal, a view later echoed by Shaw Communications, reports The Globe and Mail, setting the stage for a possible court challenge.