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…
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National press council advocated
NewsThe Ontario Human Rights Commission is calling on Parliament to force all Canadian magazines, newspapers and “media services” Web sites to join a national press council with the power to adjudicate breaches of professional standards and complaints of discrimination. Journalists warn that mandatory government regulation poses a threat to freedom of expression. Joseph Brean reports…
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Web 2.0 libel suits multiply
Feature The Web 2.0 movement ushered in an interactive Internet and put power in the hands of the people, tapping the so-called wisdom of the crowds to change the world — and to keep such a digital democracy in check. A decade later, as defamation lawsuits mount in response to an explosion of vicious attacks…
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Broadcast TV profits plunge
Profits at Canada’s biggest private television broadcasters plunged by almost 93 per cent last year, said a report from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Amid comments about the Canadian Press story on the Globe and Mail site (why does the Globe not at least rate the angry torrent of drivel?) is this sage observation:…
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Free market blues spur calls for new tune
Shrinking newsroom budgets have left former T-Star publisher John Honderich asking: Whither serious print journalism? He finds some interesting possibilities in the U.S., where non-profit foundations and cooperative ownership models are coming to the fore. Meanwhile, there are no quick answers for papers that continue to grapple with the Internet despite the fact that the…
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Readers pay, reporters dig on Spot.us
In yet another twist on user-pay, US-based Spot.us solicits reader donations to cover the cost of journalistic investigations. The problem? The reporting just isn’t very good, says James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times.
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PEJ starts tracking blogosphere (and zombies)
The Project for Excellence in Journalism is now tracking news discussions in the blogosphere every week as well as news coverage by traditional U.S. news media. The first “new media index” published last week revealed bloggers were just as mesmerized by the Obama inauguration as was the MSM. But the indices published this week are more interesting – while economic…