Archive
14 Apr

Death threats to columnist who criticized China

A Canadian columnist and former political worker, Bill Tieleman,  received a death threat from a kook in Mainland China after a column in a free Vancouver commuter paper, in which […]

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14 Apr

More distrust than dependence

Security and intelligence services and the media are fundamentally at odds with each other, according to Ward Elcock, former director of CSIS. Elcock appeared alongside panelists Wesley Wark and Jeff […]

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8 Apr

Banff looks to newspapers for recycling help

(From rabble.ca) “For recycling advocates, it’s a dream, but for Alberta’s newspaper industry, it could be a nightmare. The picturesque mountain town of Banff is looking at ways newspapers can […]

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4 Apr

China censoring the CBC

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has formally complained to China’s ambassador to Canada about the blocking of the public broadcaster’s websites in China. In a letter sent April 4 to Chinese […]

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3 Apr

The New Yorker on the future of news

A seven-page (online) story by Eric Alterman for The New Yorker provides some historical background, statistical data, examples of how various traditional and online-only media are managing, a distillation of the […]

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3 Apr

Catch 22 of citizen media

 “You need money to recruit writers but you need writers to make money.” — Co-founder John Ndege of the UK citizen journalism start-up Scribblesheet , which shut down after just […]

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26 Mar

China and Tibet

On March 26 China said it would allow the first group of foreign journalists to visit Tibet — under escort — since violent protests began earlier this month.  Reported Associated […]

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25 Mar

U.S. Patriot Act

Reading a Globe and Mail business story about how the U.S. Patriot Act “haunts” Google’s business services outside the U.S., I wondered how many journalists use gmail (or any other […]

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25 Mar

China and Tibet

Let’s see: China is lambasting foreign reporters for “biased” coverage of the riots in Tibet — while preventing them from traveling to Tibet or neighboring provinces to report on the […]

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25 Mar

The need to be more provocative online

An interesting observation by Times Swampland blogger Michael Scherer: “Here is a basic shift that has occurred in the news business: Because of the Internet, you, the reader, no longer […]

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