Archive
26 Jan

To be or not to be ethnic media

Panelists at a recent Toronto event weigh in on the use of the term “ethnic” to refer to the growing phenomenon that is multicultural media. Is it a label to […]

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25 Jan

Haiti is hot, Afghanistan is not: Blatchford

“Afghanistan’s time in the sun of the world’s attention was over, boom, the second that earthquake hit a country even poorer and more miserable and photogenic than it,” writes Globe […]

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22 Jan

Fearless Five brave Facebook and Twitter

On Feb. 1, five journalists will reportedly lock themselves up in a French farmhouse for several days with only Twitter and Facebook for outside information, “to test the quality of […]

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22 Jan

Citytv cuts “brutal evisceration,” says Globe’s Doyle

“What fresh hell is this?” asks Globe and Mail television columnist John Doyle in a recent column titled “Cuts to CITY an evisceration of an icon.” In response the the […]

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22 Jan

Horrors vs. taste: CBC producer describes the newsroom debate

Broadcasters and publishers know they can count on at least two responses to portraying graphic images of death and destruction: complaints about disgusting or invasive displays of blood and gore; […]

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20 Jan

Haiti coverage “disaster porn”: British columnist

In a column for British online daily The First Post, Brendan O’Neill writes that in Britain “both the broadsheets and the tabloids have published tawdry disaster porn, designed not to […]

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20 Jan

New York Times charges for online access

So the New York Times really did it: after months of speculation, years after its last failed attempt, it announced that it will charge online readers and explained why in […]

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19 Jan

Facebook tribute group runs afoul of publication ban

A Facebook page started in early January to host tribute to a murdered child flouted a publication ban. A day after the page was mentioned in a Toronto Star report, […]

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19 Jan

Shame the nations — shame on us

Are western journalists complicit in the murder of others across the world – just because they don’t pay attention? That’s the question posed by a stinging commentary posted on CNN […]

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18 Jan

Journalist’s data hacked in China — and where else?

“International journalists in China said Monday their Google e-mail accounts have been hacked in attacks similar to the ones against human rights activists that the search giant cited as a […]

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