Archive
29 Oct

McCain et les médias

Richard Hétu, La Presse | Pourquoi les médias publient-ils depuis au moins six semaines beaucoup plus d’histoires négatives sur John McCain que sur Barack Obama? La réponse de John Harris […]

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29 Oct

Comédies journalistiques

Yves Boisvert, La Presse | Comme ça, vous ne voulez pas d’élections? On vous comprend, mais mettez vous à la place de Jean Charest un instant. A-t-il seulement le choix? […]

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29 Oct

RFI: Six antennes à fermer

Radio-Canada / AFP | Radio France Internationale (RFI) envisage de mettre fin à la diffusion de ses programmes en six langues, faute d’audience. C’est ce que révèle un document obtenu […]

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28 Oct

National Post, ten years later

By Kirk LaPointe Ten years ago this week we launched the first edition of the National Post newspaper and its then-ambtious nationalpost.com site. I was its executive editor, working for […]

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28 Oct

Christian Science Monitor goes from print to Web-based

The respected Christian Science Monitor will migrate its daily print edition to a web-based publication, providing only a weekly print edition to subscribers. It is truly amazing to see a […]

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28 Oct

Frank magazine folds

After 19 years in business, Ottawa-based satirical magazine Frank is shutting down. “It’s time to fold it up. It’s not a business model that works any more,” publisher Michael Bate […]

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28 Oct

Behind the scenes at CTV: the Dion interview

Susan Newhook, J-Source | Here’s the scenario: You are in charge of a television newsroom near the end of a tough, close election campaign. Your six o’clock host heads downtown […]

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28 Oct

Malaise sur le double rôle d’André Arthur

Nathaëlle Morissette, La Presse | Siéger aux Communes et animer une émission quotidienne à la télévision, comme le fait André Arthur depuis près de deux semaines à TQS, exige tellement […]

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28 Oct

Cuts, closures and tumbling stock prices

Media companies are certainly not immune to the current economic crisis. As the economy implodes, media stocks, inlcuding TorStar and Canwest, are tanking. And along with the big, corporate problems […]

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28 Oct

Carleton Free Press closing

The economic downturn hurt the Carleton Free Press, a feisty weekly from Woodstock, NB, which tried to take on the Irving-owned newspaper, but lasted only one year…

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