Archive
19 Jan

All a-Twitter over Obama

Watching the American networks over the weekend, you’d never know anything was going on in Gaza, the Ukraine or anywhere else beyond a few square hectares in Washington, DC. Canadian […]

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12 Jan

Let’s all blame the media

Journalists are making Canadians “needlessly nervous” about the future, says Catherine Swift, president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, in this Canadian Press story. The result is […]

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15 Dec

Keep your eye on the…web

A lot of focus has been put (here at J-Source, as well) on the negative ways the economic crisis is affecting the media business, mainly in the form of layoffs […]

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8 Dec

Newsperson of the Year: your nominations, please

Who was the Canadian Newsperson of the Year 2008? J-Source is collecting nominations, and it’s going to be a tough call, for sure. 2008 was a year when journalists didn’t […]

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1 Dec

Tough time for j-schoolers (or is it an exciting time?)

As journalism professor Mary McGuire points out, it’s a tough market for journalism grads. With all the bad news in the industry–cutbacks and layoffs etc.–there are undoubtedly a lot of […]

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25 Nov

The value of online comments

As online commenting grows more and more popular, news organizations have been struggling with how to best handle the comments. The Globe and Mail’s communities editor, Mathew Ingram, says, comments […]

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16 Nov

Crocodile tears?

In the midst of an economic downturn, Canadian media companies like Canwest Global are announcing dire cutbacks. Is Canwest really in trouble, or are they just seizing the moment to […]

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10 Nov

Banging the gavel in the court of public opinion

In ‘Free Speech Wins! But What about Ethics?’ Stephen Ward takes a measured look at the BC tribunal ruling. It’s a tone appropriate to the situation: in true Canadian style, […]

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3 Nov

U.S. election coverage

No surprises here: study detects ideological bias in U.S. cable campaign news. Media bias is a core concept in Sarah Palin’s speeches, but are Republicans victims or victors?  An independent […]

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28 Oct

Cuts, closures and tumbling stock prices

Media companies are certainly not immune to the current economic crisis. As the economy implodes, media stocks, inlcuding TorStar and Canwest, are tanking. And along with the big, corporate problems […]

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