Archive
28 Jan

New York Times crisis deepens

If the New York Times can’t hold its own, who and what can? The New York Times Co. reported a sharp drop in fourth-quarter 2008 operating profit. December advertising revenues […]

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28 Jan

Budget help for some publications

Canada’s “community press” got a boost in the federal budget, and the two national newspaper associations are pleased. The budget included $30 million over two years for community newspapers and […]

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28 Jan

Globe’s Ingram reflects on liveblogging “experiments”

Nearly three months after Mathew Ingram took on his new role as communities editor at The Globe and Mail, he and the online team have been “experimenting” with liveblogs. Most […]

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28 Jan

Endowing newspapers

If Thomas Jefferson was right that a well-informed citizenry is the foundation of our democracy, then newspapers must be saved, write two financially savvy thinkers at Yale. “Although the problems […]

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28 Jan

Iraqi journalist’s land entitlement

Demands for land in Iraq for “journalist citizens” are just bizarre.Reports the New York Times: “At a recent meeting with the Iraqi journalists’ union, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki made […]

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27 Jan

France launches aid program for newspapers

The French government will spend several hundred million dollars a year to help France’s newspaper industry cope with declining ad revenue. Measures include tax breaks, increased government advertising and subsidizing free subscriptions for […]

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27 Jan

Collision of journalist/physician ethics

A doctor who wrote an essay in excruciating detail about the death of a Canadian reservist in Afghanistan was censured by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons. A college […]

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27 Jan

Fund aimed at helping families of murdered fixers

UK-based Frontline Club today posted a video soliciting donations to its Fixers Fund, a fund aimed at helping the families of murdered fixers that was created last year in response […]

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27 Jan

NFB launches online screening room

NFB.ca has launched its online Screening Room, in the works for more than a year, and “meant to make the NFB’s collection of films accessible to all those who want […]

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27 Jan

Crybaby foreign correspondents

“Spoiled crybabies:” that’s how Daniel Seaman, director of Israel’s Government Press Office described foreign journalists who couldn’t get into Gaza in a statement issued on Sunday, reports Israel Today. Israel […]

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