Archive
28 Jan

Boycott gouvernemental : la FPJQ s’inquiète

La décision de certains élus de l’Assemblée nationale de refuser d’accorder des entrevues individuelles aux journalistes du Journal de Montréal durant le lock-out, inquiète la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du […]

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28 Jan

Toronto Star reporter dies

Toronto Star police reporter John Duncanson died in his sleep earlier this week, at the age of 43. Duncanson left the Star in 2007 to seek treatment for alchoholism. He […]

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28 Jan

Les hebdos : assurément pertinents

Lise Millette, Équipe ProjetJ | Un sondage Léger Marketing soutient que 70 % des Québécois considèrent que l’information contenue dans leur journal hebdomadaire local offre une information de qualité et […]

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28 Jan

Web access to court files expanding

FeatureThe age of Internet access to court records has dawned in Canada. British Columbia is leading the way with online access to some 200,000 court documents and more to come, […]

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28 Jan

New York Times crisis deepens

If the New York Times can’t hold its own, who and what can? The New York Times Co. reported a sharp drop in fourth-quarter 2008 operating profit. December advertising revenues […]

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28 Jan

Budget help for some publications

Canada’s “community press” got a boost in the federal budget, and the two national newspaper associations are pleased. The budget included $30 million over two years for community newspapers and […]

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28 Jan

Holding court on the web

FeatureAnyone with Internet access could watch live video of the Ontario Court of Appeal hearing that exonerated Steven Truscott of a 1950s murder. Despite that initiative – not to mention a […]

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28 Jan

Globe’s Ingram reflects on liveblogging “experiments”

Nearly three months after Mathew Ingram took on his new role as communities editor at The Globe and Mail, he and the online team have been “experimenting” with liveblogs. Most […]

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28 Jan

Canwest imposes further cost-saving measures

In an memo emailed to all staff, Canwest executives Dennis Skulsky and Doug Lamb announced a series of cost-cutting measures the company is instituting in order to further combat economic […]

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28 Jan

Endowing newspapers

If Thomas Jefferson was right that a well-informed citizenry is the foundation of our democracy, then newspapers must be saved, write two financially savvy thinkers at Yale. “Although the problems […]

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