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The Arab League is under criticism for a new charter aimed at stopping Arab satellite channels from offending governments in the region. League members overwhelming approved regulations to allow member states to “withdraw, freeze or not renew the work permits of media which break the regulations,” say satellite channels “should not damage social harmony, national…
Finally, a breath of fresh air amid the histrionics. Maybe. Syed Soharwardy, founder of the Calgary-based Islamic Supreme Council of Canada and founder of Muslims Against Terrorism, has concluded that his complaint to a human rights commission about the reprinting of the Danish cartoons was “beyond what I now believe should be the mandate of…
Canada’s latest free newspaper hit the streets of Halifax February 14, two days after Transcontinental Media shut down the Halifax Daily News. The debut issue of Metro Halifax mirrored an editorial format familiar to readers in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. The business model, however, was very different than that of its big-city…
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A boardroom fight may be brewing at the New York Times, according to Philip Stone, of followthemedia.com. The Times, like many newspaper companies in Canada and the United States, has a dual-stock structure that gives founding family members control over the board of directors. Two investment funds, Harbinger Capital Partners and Firebrand Partners, recently purchased…
ProPublica won a lot of attention when it was announced last year, but it is not the only new experiment in non-profit journalism. The Christian Science Monitor (itself a non-profit entity) has an interesting article about the Voice in San Diego and MinnPost in Minneapolis, two non-profit newspapers that focus on local coverage. ProPublica, of…
The Capital Times newspaper in Madison Wisconsin switched from a daily broadsheet to a twice weekly tabloid. The 90-year-old newspaper is expected to carry far more content on its new beefed up website than in its new print edition.
Local news in the UK could undergo seismic change in 2008: the technology exists for leading regional newspaper groups to radically overhaul their sites. But as internet start-ups invade their markets with lower costs and a native understanding of new media, Paul Bradshaw asks, are local newspapers moving fast enough?