Infopresse | Crise économique ou déclenchement des élections? Les chaînes spécialisées d’information LCN et RDI ont connu, dans la semaine du 3 au 9 novembre, une hausse intéressante de leurs parts de marché. Autrement, selon les données fournies par Sondages BBM, le palmarès et les heures d’écoute chez les généralistes ne connaissent pas de changement…
Paul Cauchon, Le Devoir | Un nouvel appareil électronique bouleverse les données de l’industrie. Une petite révolution est en cours dans le domaine de la radio. Hier, la firme de sondage BBM publiait les premières données obtenues grâce à un nouvel appareil électronique, le PPM. Or ces données permettent de découvrir que l’écoute de la…
Newsflash: “China tells state media to report bad news.” The news was a Reuters scoop. What next? Journalism instead of propaganda?
“Media ban lifted on Ottawa prof’s bomb hearing.” Quite so.
Editors Weblog reports that Chris Cramer, Reuters’ global editor of multimedia for news, says “the editorial integrity of journalism is “threatened” by traditional and citizen journalists using the Internet to “distort” information …
Non-Citizen Black wants a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Christmas present from outgoing U.S. president George W. Bush. From the Globe and Mail: “NEW YORK, TORONTO — Conrad Black is pinning his hopes on clemency from U.S. President George W. Bush as a last-ditch effort to get out of jail early, and he wants his former publishing company to…
Net neutrality: 0, Bell: 1 Bell Canada has won the right to continue the practice called “Internet throttling” in a ruling from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission….
Steve Proulx, Voir | On sait peu de choses du richissime citoyen de Sagard, Paul Desmarais. On sait toutefois que son empire, Power Corporation, possède notamment de grosses compagnies d’assurance et de services financiers (Great-West, London Life, Groupe Investors, Mackenzie), ainsi que Gesca, éditeur de sept quotidiens francophones (dont La Presse).
The current Columbia Journalism Review has a long, exhaustively-researched analysis of the digital information age, the role of journalists in informing citizens, and the capabilities of said citizens to become informed. The sub-title is: “Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of too much information.” The title (including exclamation mark) is: “Overload!” ’nuff said? Hat…
More people working in media are being cut this week. Sometimes these ongoing cuts seem like bloodletting, the medical treatment of barbaric physicians who more often than not killed their patients. In the media’s case perhaps…