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16 Mar

Stop the presses: Seattle Post-Intelligencer goes online-only

The last edition of the news-“paper” Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be published Tuesday, the paper reported on its web site. Hearst Corp. announced that it would stop publishing the 146-year old […]

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16 Mar

State of the Media report bleakest ever

As one might expect, this year’s annual State of the Media report produced by The Center for Excellence in Journalism makes for dismal reading. The most frightening problem highlighted by […]

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16 Mar

Re-thinking the CBC during crisis

“Time to re-think CBC funding?” is the title of a thinky Toronto Star piece looking at future possibilities for the CBC, hard-hit and in crisis from a drop in both […]

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16 Mar

State of Media report includes warning

Below is the State of the Media press release. A link to the PDF of the complete executive summary is here. Two developments converged in the last year to shorten […]

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15 Mar

Foreign correspondence not so “foreign”

“Foreign correspondence” is not as “foreign” as it used to be, reflects the India correspondent for the New York Times of the impact of global online media on concepts like […]

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15 Mar

Poll: Is a local newspaper important?

The Globe poll online as of Sunday evening): Do you think it’s important to have a local newspaper?No, online media can fill the gap — 18 per centNo, I don’t […]

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15 Mar

Is democracy written in disappearing ink?

That’s the title of a massive, must-read piece in the Globe and Mail about the decline of journalism. The sub-title says, “… if print is a dinosaur, what will take […]

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13 Mar

Media literacy

This is one of the best journalism ideas I’ve heard all year: The U.S. Stony Brook University proposes to hire and train 50 laid-off journalists to teach a new discipline, […]

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13 Mar

Jon Stewart vs Jim Cramer

Jon Stewart, the comedian on the Daily Show whose satire has achieved the bizarre reputation of being some of the most responsible U.S. “journalism,” has lately attacked the performance of […]

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12 Mar

Reader’s Digest English chief laid off

Reader’s Digest Canadian Operations announced the lay-off of Peter Stockland, VP and Editor-in-Chief, English Magazines. The company said in a news release Stockland’s position will be replaced by his former […]

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