Archive
12 Nov

CanWest cuts another 560 jobs

Facing a mountain of debt, nosediving stock prices and an economic slowdown, media giant CanWest is amputating another 560 Canadian jobs, about five per cent of its current workforce. The job eliminations – to […]

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12 Nov

Behind the lens: camera operators in conflict zones

Camera operators have been risking their lives for decades to send back footage for television news broadcasts and documentaries. But Canadian viewers generally don’t know a whole lot, if anything, […]

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12 Nov

Toronto Life editor defends Aqsa Parvez story

Toronto Life magazine’s latest cover story, “Girl, Interupted,” caused an uproar this week, as some critics charge the story is racist and instigates fear of Mulisms. In addition, some felt […]

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11 Nov

A lighter (sorta) take on API’s crisis summit

Mark Potts, author of the Recovering Journalist blog, has a few choice thoughts about the American Press Institute’s upcoming one-day summit of 50 newspaper executives, who are gathering in a […]

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10 Nov

The media criticism of Peter Watkins

Uncomfortable? Hirschorn called Watkins’s political sensibility “at once sentimental and punitively moralistic—as if continuing in your bourgeois existence after watching one of his films is a form of ethical suicide.” […]

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9 Nov

Muslims need free speech protection: report

Governments Should do More to Protect Freedom of Speech From Extremists Says New Report LONDON, November 10 /PRNewswire/ — Muslim reformers and critics of Islam around Europe are being silenced […]

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8 Nov

Kidnapped CBC reporter freed

CBC said reporter Mellissa Fung, previously based in Regina, “was taken by armed men who approached her in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul on Oct. 12. The […]

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7 Nov

Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting launches website

The newly formed Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting (CCIR) has launched its website and accompanying blog, Investigate This!. The Centre’s mandate is to “produce thoroughly researched reporting in the public […]

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7 Nov

How to save print media: Jonathan Kay

In a recent National Post column Jonathan Kay outlines three “discrete islands of profitability” that he figures can save print media organizations — should they choose to go in one […]

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6 Nov

The battle of the mag conferences (and the demise of Masthead)

When Canada’s magazine about magazines, Masthead, folded last month, weak ad sales, small circulation and “structural changes in the market” were said to be to blame. In a report for […]

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