Archive
12 Jan

Globe editorial hits the front page

When the Harper government decided to prorogue Parliament, The Globe and Mail denounced it on the front page. Geoffrey Stevens asks if the wall dividing news from opinion has fallen […]

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11 Jan

Reporting on abuse in the Church should look beyond victims and bureaucrats

There’s more to the story of sexual abuse by clerics than victims, abusers and self-protecting bureaucracies, writes Joyce Smith. Part of the challenge of reporting on religion is recognizing the […]

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4 Jan

Langs death raises questions about how media reports from Afghanistan

Hundreds of reporters have briefly embedded with Canadian forces in Afghanistan and, in most cases, returned to their regular beats at home. In light of the death of Calgary health […]

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22 Dec

Can non-profit journalism make it in Canada?

The funding environment in Canada may not be as crowded as in the U.S., but Canada does suffer from a lack of foundation support for media ventures, writes Bilbo Poynter.  […]

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22 Dec

Want me to pay for local news? Deliver more value

The two recent CRTC hearings about the fee-for-carriage battle between cable companies and conventional broadcasters highlighted the way local TV will (and must) change, writes Greg O’Brien. I believe in […]

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8 Dec

Memo to j-boomers: times change

In his final editorial, J-Source‘s outgoing editor-in-chief, Ivor Shapiro, has a message for fellow members of his generation: Whining about the good old days isn’t just boring; it’s blinkered. The […]

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24 Nov

New media beast tries unproven business model

It’s not citizen journalism, it’s opinion aggregation, say the founders of The Mark, a six-month old news and opinion website. Tim Currie reports on the vision behind the site, how […]

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17 Nov

Turned down again

When Anna Maria Tremonti, host of CBC Radio’s The Current, invites federal cabinet ministers to be interviewed she is turned down more often than not, writes Leslie Shepherd. The show […]

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3 Nov

The Horror! The Horror! CBC News gets an extreme makeover

A barrage of bullets has hit the CBC as TV critics, journalism professors and CBC mainstays attack the re-launched news, but news veteran Peter McNelly may stand alone in calling […]

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29 Sep

What a free daily should do for a city

Michael Hlinka, business analyst for CBC’s southern Ontario morning show Metro Morning, discusses the viability of t.o.night, yet another freebie commuter paper in Toronto. First, things first. I have tremendous […]

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