Archive
14 Jul

Canwest creditor protection over

Canwest’s newspaper division, which includes The National Post and other big city dailies, has emerged from creditor protection and confirmed Postmedia Network Canada Corp. as its new owners. Postmedia is […]

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14 Jul

On Facebook, Playboy is king

Playboy has more Facebook fans than CNN, The Economist, The New York Times and the BBC. Facebakers, a portal run by Candytech that deciphers Facebook statistics, applications and data is […]

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13 Jul

Editors in distress

Low pay, high anxiety, long hours and short-staffed. The life of today’s magazine editor. This week we feature Whitney Wager’s story from the summer issue of the Ryerson Review of […]

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13 Jul

The conduct of public inquiries

Whether its about G20, Air India or Mulroney-Schreiber, good, bad or indifferent public inquiries make news and reporters are sent to cover them, Peter Rehak writes. Yet, relatively little has […]

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13 Jul

The 65ft rule: Media and the BP spill

As the cleanup of BP’s massive oil spill continues, the U.S. Coast Guard has created a blanket rule that keeps everyone – including the media –at least 65 feet away […]

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13 Jul

Canadian Press goes private: analysis

The sale of the non-profit Canadian Press to a trio of private companies may give the news service a much-needed influx of money to back its cutting-edge approach to news, […]

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13 Jul

Pentagon ends Guantnamo reporters’ ban

The Pentagon has allowed two previously-banned reporters, including a Toronto Star employee, back onto the naval base at Guantánamo Bay after a news organization coalition called the ban unconstitutional. No […]

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12 Jul

Globe profiles Sun TV’s Kory Teneycke

Former Harper spokesman and now Quebecor’s VP of business development, Kory Teneycke is an “unlikely media mogul with little direct experience in broadcasting”, The Globe and Mail reports.In an article […]

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12 Jul

Police allegedly erase photos during G20 arrests

Some journalists that were arrested while covering the G20 summit in Toronto claim that police wiped their cameras clean of images and video. One of the arrested journalists, Montreal’s Amy […]

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12 Jul

Court orders paper to name commenter

A court order from a New Brunswick judge has ordered a Moncton newspaper to reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter who made accusations of racism in against the fire […]

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