Archive
24 Jun

Don’t forget to plug in your newspaper

Businessweek.com technology writer Arik Hesseldahl cancelled his four newspaper subscriptions for an entire month and fed his addiction with Amazon’s new Kindle instead. The Kindle e-reader gives a user access […]

READ MORE
23 Jun

Monday mayhem

Apropos of nothing — or just because it’s Monday: Journalist suspected of murdering women in Macedonia Story of a journalist Stripping His Way to a Ph.D. Reporter breaks back after […]

READ MORE
23 Jun

Is it broke?

“Journalism is broken,” said a speaker at a lecture series put on by the U.K. Guardian. The series, which is partly available online, asked, “Is it?”

READ MORE
20 Jun

Tim Russert, icon or poster boy

The explosion of news about deceased U.S. broadcaster Tim Russert (at one point in the week a Google news search returned some 10,000 hits) reminds me of how O.J. Simpson […]

READ MORE
20 Jun

Floating feet

“Why,” asks the Globe and Mail, “are newshounds around the world so enraptured by a grim West Coast story about human flotsam?” OK, it’s a rhetorical question — every reporter […]

READ MORE
19 Jun

Internet ad sales forge ahead, says report

According to this year’s PricewaterhouseCoopers forecast on the entertainment and media industries, the media and entertainment industry will do just fine over the next few years but the digital and […]

READ MORE
17 Jun

20 questions about polls

The American National Council on Public Polls has a piece on its website that looks like a worthwhile read: 20 Questions A Journalist Should Ask About Poll Results. Hat tip […]

READ MORE
17 Jun

CBC’s Mesley takes on advertorials in Brule’s new mag

Advertorials, a controversial trend in print journalism, were debated Monday night in an interview on CBC’s The National.  Wendy Mesley, in an arts and entertainment segment,  took on Tyler Brule, […]

READ MORE
17 Jun

Upstart Quebec freesheet surviving

A free paper published by former journalists at the Journal du Québec has survived (thrived?) for 15 months. The paper was started to protest against the tabloid’s plans to integrate […]

READ MORE
16 Jun

BBC “light sculpture” commemorates journalists

From the BBC: A soaring glass and steel cone on top of BBC Broadcasting House in London, England, will shine a beam of light into the sky every night at […]

READ MORE