Archive
16 Mar

Re-thinking the CBC during crisis

“Time to re-think CBC funding?” is the title of a thinky Toronto Star piece looking at future possibilities for the CBC, hard-hit and in crisis from a drop in both […]

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16 Mar

State of Media report includes warning

Below is the State of the Media press release. A link to the PDF of the complete executive summary is here. Two developments converged in the last year to shorten […]

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16 Mar

Is “layered journalism” the future?

ByStephen Ward Newspapers in peril, journalists laid off, ethical standards challenged, and the economic basis of mainstream journalism collapsing. We are witnessing more than the collapse of an economic model […]

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16 Mar

Un différend juridique aide Canwest

Canwest a réussi à éponger une partie de sa dette grâce à un litige juridique qui lui a permis d’empocher 34 millions de dollars. L’entreprise demeure malgré tout bien fragilisée […]

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15 Mar

Le nouveau visage de l’info

Lise Millette, ProjetJ Un texte du Figaro soutient qu’il y a un profond changement de génération qui s’opère dans le monde des médias et plus particulièrement dans celui de la presse écrite. […]

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15 Mar

Déroute journalistique : pas encore

Le milieu journalistique a beau être en crise, selon le plus récent sondage de Project for Excellence in Journalism, l’information continue de susciter l’intérêt des consommateurs. L’industrie médiatique n’est donc pas […]

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15 Mar

Foreign correspondence not so “foreign”

“Foreign correspondence” is not as “foreign” as it used to be, reflects the India correspondent for the New York Times of the impact of global online media on concepts like […]

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15 Mar

Poll: Is a local newspaper important?

The Globe poll online as of Sunday evening): Do you think it’s important to have a local newspaper?No, online media can fill the gap — 18 per centNo, I don’t […]

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15 Mar

Is democracy written in disappearing ink?

That’s the title of a massive, must-read piece in the Globe and Mail about the decline of journalism. The sub-title says, “… if print is a dinosaur, what will take […]

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13 Mar

Media literacy

This is one of the best journalism ideas I’ve heard all year: The U.S. Stony Brook University proposes to hire and train 50 laid-off journalists to teach a new discipline, […]

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