Archive
17 Dec

Amanda Lindhout gives thanks

Maybe Amanda Lindhout really is not a journalist, as some critics have recently charged. Her first statement since being freed from her Somali kidnappers and arriving back home in Canada […]

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17 Dec

15,000 lost jobs in U.S. newspaper biz in 2009: News Cycle

“At least 15,000 people have lost their jobs in the newspaper industry in 2009,” according to News Cycle‘s ongoing list of layoffs and buyouts in the U.S. newspaper business. News […]

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14 Dec

Exclusivity of media coverage

Reading Jody White’s account on J-Source about being asked to leave Al Gore’s speech to clear the field for the event’s media partner The Toronto Star, I was reminded of […]

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9 Dec

An archive of audio stories

If you are looking for some outstanding, award-winning radio documentaries, you might find them at this online archive from Sound Portraits.

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8 Dec

Five minutes of Al Gore, then everybody out except…

If anyone is still in need of proof that the news media industry is changing, a recent Al Gore speech in Toronto was a case in point. After playing an […]

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7 Dec

TorStar, world newspapers, wage climate-change fight

Most journalists strive never to become part of the story — except in life-or-death cases when our humanity demands action. The Toronto Star has decided that climate change is such […]

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4 Dec

German media wars

Compared to the limp competition in Canada, Germany’s media wars are … interesting. “Giant Penis Sparks Bizarre Media War,” headlines DER SPIEGEL.

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2 Dec

Enough of Tiger Woods already

The obsession with Tiger Woods proves it: we’ve lost our marbles. Australia is drying up. Dubai is in the toilet. The Large Hadron Collider is smashing atoms. Our world is […]

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1 Dec

Cult Journalism, or, The day the whale exploded

Move over, This Is Spinal Tap and The Rocky Horror Picture Show –a blast from the past (sorry) has become a cult journalism classic on the Internet with a reported […]

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29 Nov

“We’re in the dumps!!” and: “Freelancing not necessarily gainful!!!”

Oh, for those good old days — just last year wasn’t it? — when analysts trumpeted the economic value of the “creative class.” Reports the Conference Board of Canada, in […]

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