Archive
30 Oct

Circulation grows! (or, “Man bites dog!”)

    “CIRCULATION GROWS” could be a screaming headline in 72-point with multiple exclamation marks. But, oddly, it arrived in my inbox today as a mere item in the latest e-bulletin […]

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29 Oct

The sky is falling

“Clearly, the sky is falling. The question now is how many people will be left to cover it.” New York Times reporter David Carr writes about the struggles between old […]

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29 Oct

Another Wente controversy

    A discussion is raging on Facebook about Margaret Wente’s latest Globe and Mail column, “What Dick Pound said was really dumb – and also true.” The column concerns Dick […]

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24 Oct

Media wins access to recount

A British Columbia Supreme Court ruling means the Victoria Times Colonist can attend and report on a judicial recount of election results in the federal riding of Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca. […]

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23 Oct

Talking to Main Street about Wall Street: how the media are covering the financial crisis

By Maryanne McNellis As journalists we have an obligation not to fuel the flames of panic as this economic tsunami spreads through global markets. One way to temper the fear […]

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23 Oct

Silver lining amid subscription cuts?

A study of the monthly expenses that families are willing to cut from their budgets during an economic slowdown suggests subscriptions to magazines and newspapers will be cut fourth in […]

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22 Oct

Poll of news organizations

OK, this seems ridiculous: either nobody who works for CanWest reads J-Source, or if CanWest journalists do read J-Source not one of them considers their own news service tops. That […]

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22 Oct

Afghanistan and freedom of expression

“On the morning of Oct. 27, 2007, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh got the call that changed his life,” starts a Globe and Mail interview with the journalism student in Afghanistan whose […]

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22 Oct

Bloggers don’t have Baghdad bureaus

“News and opinion mingle with alarming alacrity [online],” Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor at The New York Times, told the (U.S.) Association of National Advertisers’ annual conference, in a speech […]

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22 Oct

Media shares tank

The price of CanWest shares on the TSX is down from a 52-week high of 8.28 to a low — at the time of this posting — of 1.10. Analysts […]

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