Archive
30 Mar

CBC cuts

You know it’s bad when your ‘business plan’ is also known as ‘CBC bloodbath.’ J-Source provides the details and links to information on English and French program cuts. If you […]

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23 Mar

Lite rock versus local culture

Citizens of Gabriola Island want a community radio station, so they can hear local culture on the air and have the benefit of emergency broadcasting. Rogers Communications wants them to […]

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16 Mar

The new localism – who will deliver it?

Several community papers are on the ropes, including the Morinville and Jasper papers, prompting a Globe and Mail online poll: Is a local newspaper important? The question follows a recent […]

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9 Mar

Any good news out there?

This week’s Big Issue editor scoured J-Source for good news – and there was more than you’d think. It seems tough economic times get people thinking about what’s working right. […]

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1 Mar

A post-monopoly future?

In recent years, local newspapers and broadcasters were called on to prop up empires that dabbled in everything from baseball teams to movies. At a crucial historical moment that called […]

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24 Feb

Throttling the net

The CRTC’s examination of Canadian content on the web is overshadowing a much fiercer debate boiling over in cyber-land. The Commission is considering allowing service providers to slow down or […]

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17 Feb

The more you know: keeping up with journalism research

Studies, research projects and surveys are important during tough times in any business. As the journalism business struggles with the current economic recession and broader changes related to its structure […]

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10 Feb

Free market blues spur calls for new tune

Shrinking newsroom budgets have left former T-Star publisher John Honderich asking: Whither serious print journalism? He finds some interesting possibilities in the U.S., where non-profit foundations and cooperative ownership models […]

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1 Feb

Keeping the presses rolling: crisis spurs discussion

The global economic crisis has spurred discussion about how to keep the presses rolling. A recent Columbia Journalism Review article asks: Should government help? When Denver’s Andrew Hudson used his […]

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26 Jan

Budget watchers and spin doctors collide

While lobbyists and spin doctors converge on Parliament Hill this week, Jim Stanford parses a new word in our budget lexicon: stimulus. As budget-watchers multiply, creating a federal budget is […]

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