It’s the economy — are we stupid?
It’s tough being a business journalist these days, notes David Carr. Kinda like “owning an ice cream parlor where spinach is the only flavor on the menu.”
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Findings’ Keepers
An essential reading list of recent journalism-related studies: The State of the News Media, 2010The most recent annual report on the U.S. news media produced by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The Credibility Gap: Canadians and Their News Media A survey-based study into the relationship between Canadians and the news media published in 2008…
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And in the “how to make news pay” dept…
More in the debate about micropayments, news nightmares and dreams for a better tomorrow. Today’s contestants: social media guru Clay Shirky vs journalist Nicholas Carr.
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More Chinese censorship
Chinese journalists who break their government’s reporting rules face being put on a new blacklist, adding to an array of controls used to restrict its domestic media, reported the Guardian. State-owned media in China today reported that the body that controls the sector plans to “establish a database of media professionals with a bad record.”…
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CBC online discussion draws hate complaint
NewsA group of Manitoba chiefs is urging hate charges be filed against the CBC for what it called “racist and hateful” comments about natives posted on the broadcaster’s website. But whether media outlets are responsible for what’s said in moderated discussion boards remains a grey area in Canadian law. Patrick White reports in The Globe…
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Will Gaza debacle give Al Jazeera entry to Canadian airwaves?
Tony Burman, formerly former editor-in-chief of CBC News and now managing director of Al Jazeera English, said Israel’s decision to prohibit foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip during the recent war left the field open to Al Jazeera, which had a massive audience spike. And that, reported the Vancouver Sun’s Doug Ward, “just might…
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Expelled by Sudan
“They asked me why I was asking about arms. Then they said they wanted me to leave the country:” Reporters Without Borders tells the story of Canadian-Egyptian journalist Heba Aly’s expulsion from Sudan…
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Cooke new TorStar editor
Michael Cooke will become the new editor of the Toronto Star on March 1, the paper announced. Cooke replaces…
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CP style guide now online
The Canadian Press has made its Stylebook and Caps and Spelling Caps and Spelling guides available for sale online, for $6.25 per month. The advantage, it says, is a reporter can access it from anywhere in the world. Hmmm. For $75 per year I think I’ll just keep using the dead-tree version that’s beside my…
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Dramatic change in Washington corps
“The corps of journalists covering Washington D.C. at the dawn of the Obama Administration is not so much smaller as it is dramatically transformed,” said a report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The report used the word shock in describing the degree to which “what we once thought of as the mainstream news…