Archive
20 Nov

China’s media

Newsflash: “China tells state media to report bad news.” The news was a Reuters scoop. What next? Journalism instead of propaganda?

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20 Nov

Transparency in court

“Media ban lifted on Ottawa prof’s bomb hearing.” Quite so.

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20 Nov

Electronic mob called threat

Editors Weblog reports that Chris Cramer, Reuters’ global editor of multimedia for news, says “the editorial integrity of journalism is “threatened” by traditional and citizen journalists using the Internet to […]

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20 Nov

Black wants out

Non-Citizen Black wants a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Christmas present from outgoing U.S. president George W. Bush. From the Globe and Mail: “NEW YORK, TORONTO — Conrad Black is pinning his hopes on […]

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20 Nov

Net not neutral: CRTC ruling

Net neutrality: 0, Bell: 1 Bell Canada has won the right to continue the practice called “Internet throttling” in a ruling from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The commission […]

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19 Nov

Awash

The current Columbia Journalism Review has a long, exhaustively-researched analysis of the digital information age, the role of journalists in informing citizens, and the capabilities of said citizens to become […]

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19 Nov

Media bloodletting

“TIME Inc. today becomes not a publisher of magazines but of pink slips instead,” reports the New York Post. The Post says 250 will be laid off today, part of […]

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18 Nov

The assassination of Tara Singh Hayer

It’s been a decade now since Tara Singh Hayer was shot dead. The first most significant thing about Hayer’s assassination, seems to me, is the fact that he was publisher […]

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18 Nov

Rupert Murdoch is optimistic

Bon mots from Rupert Murdoch’s radio address for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (is the News Corp. chair trying to buy that too?), in which he argues newspaper industry doomsayers are […]

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18 Nov

Dying newsroom

Now this is just sad: a Mother Jones photo essay of a dying newsroom. Pictures are worth 1,000 words — especially when there are no more words being written.

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