Even those of us who care about news and newspapers can become cynical about the wailing over the demise of print. Fortunate then that Paul Starr has written a passionate and thought-provoking argument in The New Republic for why all of us should care.
Under his own byline, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch apologized for an editorial cartoon run by The New York Post showing a police officer telling his colleague, who just shot a chimpanzee, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” Wrote Murdoch…
The CRTC’s examination of Canadian content on the web is overshadowing a much fiercer debate boiling over in cyber-land. The Commission is considering allowing service providers to slow down or charge additional fees for band-heavy content like videos, a practice known as throttling. The hearing’s terms of reference arise from a complaint against Bell Canada,…
“The (Stephen) Harper government has delayed for months the release of notes on conference calls held at the height of last summer’s deadly listeriosis outbreak — a lag some experts say breaks Ottawa’s own information laws,” reported the Canadian Press, which has filed an information request to the Privy Council Office for “all transcripts and…
Crawford Killian sums up the demise of media, on The Tyee blog, The Hook.. His warning is spine-chilling…
Unionized staff at the Halifax daily broadsheet Chronicle Herald, are not taking 20 union-only layoffs lying down: they staged an information picket Monday, the deadline to accept or reject a buyout package, reported CBC.
When Chauncey Bailey, the editor of The Oakland Post, in California, was gunned down in broad daylight, reported the New York Times, “the decimation of local media, … precluded large-scale investigative work” into his death and the dirty laundry revealed by the official response. After his death, a group of reporters…
Having trouble keeping track of the “how to save newspapers” business models? Check out Pramit Singh’s list of 14 and vote for your fave–or chime in on why they won’t work!
England’s National Readership Survey reports more people are reading “quality” newspapers like The Times and The Guardian even though their circulation is declining. Readership of mid-market and tabloid newspapers, however, is dropping.
Media behemoth CanWest is fighting for its survival — and the loss of control by its ruling Asper family. What are the implications for Canadian journalism? What opportunities might lie in crisis for improving Canadian journalism?