Archive
20 Aug

War coverage

Canadian media have consistently given priority to covering the deaths of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan; today’s Globe and Mail top-front page piece about the death of Simon Longtin of the […]

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20 Aug

Russia drops BBC

Is Russia cracking down on foreign media? The BBC was effectively kicked out of the country today. From a story in the Guardian:The BBC World Service has lost its last […]

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20 Aug

CBC “regrets” taking Harper out of context

After airing a story that sparked a number of complaints, the CBC offered an apology at the end of a National broadcast for quoting Stephen Harper out of context. The […]

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20 Aug

Victoria News editor fired after advertiser complaint

Victoria News editor Keith Norbury was fired August 17 in part due to an advertiser complaint, reports B.C. politics blog Public Eye Online. The complaint came from a local car dealership […]

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15 Aug

Belly Up

Dean Starkman offers some strong opinions on the sell-out of the WSJ in the Columbia Journalism Review, and a warning for the NY Times. An excerpt:And so Dow Jones & […]

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14 Aug

CRTC head faces many challenges

Michael Geist, a columnist for The Tyee, lays out the challenges that lay ahead for Konrad von Finckenstein, the newly appointed chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

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14 Aug

Weekly World News will be missed

Cate Doty, a writer for The New York Times, discusses the demise and influence of the mock tabloid Weekly World News, which folded in July after almost three decades of […]

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14 Aug

Bloggers good for journalism?

In a column for the Toronto Star, David Eave and Taylor Owen, both bloggers, take a look back at the influence the blogosphere has had on journalism since bloggers first […]

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14 Aug

AbitibiBowater merger bad news for papers

Konrad Yakabuski, a Globe and Mail columnist, reveals what the recent friendly merger of Montreal-based Abitibi Consolidated Inc. and its U.S. rival Bowater Inc. says about the state of the […]

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14 Aug

Canadians want media variety

Steve Anderson, a Vancouver-based journalist, comments on the possible impact of several recent media mergers in Canada in a recent edition of The Tyee.

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