Archive
5 Mar

Mob rule on the Web said to harm debate

Andre Picard, who is perhaps Canada’s top medical journalist, is fed up with the impact of instant online commentary on scientific debate. “On the Web, it is mob rule,” writes […]

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5 Mar

Lawyers for Readers Digest explore bankruptcy filing

Media giant Readers Digest has hired a firm of lawyers to explore restructuring and possible bankruptcy, reports Bloomberg. The corporate web site of Reader’s Digest Association Inc. calls it “a […]

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4 Mar

Not the ending anyone envisioned

Tom Hawthorn explores the crisis in journalism with a profile of Vancouver native John Temple, editor of the American Rocky Mountain News, which closed this month. An excerpt from Hawthorn’s […]

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4 Mar

A changing “ethos” at The Walrus

A new look, a trimmed staff and renewed fundraising efforts are just a few of the major changes at The Walrus magazine under new editor and co-publisher John Macfarlane. In […]

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27 Feb

CanWest suit

The Tyee has a round-up of the status of lawsuits Canwest launched in response to a parody of the Vancouver Sun. Not a lot of humour is evident.

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27 Feb

Daniel Leblanc and protecting sources

Expect the press-rights case of Globe and Mail reporter Daniel Leblanc — who is ordered to appear in Quebec’s Superior Court to testify about a source in the infamous sponsorship […]

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27 Feb

Information not free in Canada

“The Harper government is ignoring the urgent pleas of Canada’s Information Commissioner to fix the broken system that governs Canadians’ right to know, a regime where complying with the law […]

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25 Feb

Context needed

“Democracy needs dialogue more than it needs bumper stickers,” writes Stephen L. Carter, a novelist and Yale law professor, in a persuasive essay arguing for more context — more thoroughness […]

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25 Feb

CBC funding crisis

[Note: This post has been updated] “The CBC is heading toward a new fiscal year with little clarity about its funding from Ottawa, even as it suffers a projected 2008-2009 […]

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24 Feb

Fewer newspapers = more corruption

Even those of us who care about news and newspapers can become cynical about the wailing over the demise of print. Fortunate then that Paul Starr has written a passionate […]

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