Archive
26 May

Broadcasting to a brave new world

The CBC’s recent plea for stable funding reminds us that broadcasters – not just print publishers – are concerned about survival within the global communications revolution. At this spring’s Broadcast […]

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20 May

Freedom threatened, at home and abroad

Muzzling journalists is an act we normally associate with governments in non-democratic countries. While there is evidence that this behaviour continues in places like China and Afghanistan, as described in […]

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11 May

The death of CAIRS

CAIR’s passing will be mourned by regular visitors to the CAIRS online data base, currently managed by David McKie. Originally viewed as a threat to access, the Coordination of Access […]

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5 May

World Press Freedom Day

May 3 was World Press Freedom Day, although there doesn’t appear to be much reason to celebrate. Deb Jones in Town Hall links to reactions from Reporters Without Borders, the […]

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26 Apr

CanWest Not Laughing

When a group of Vancouver activists published a spoof newspaper lampooning CanWest’s editorial stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the media giant’s lawyers got busy. ‘Media suit looks strange’, published in […]

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21 Apr

The TorStar cuts

Torstar Corp., owner of the Toronto Star, Canada’s biggest-circulation daily, said in a press release that it will cut 160 jobs in its newspaper division. A report by Reuters said […]

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13 Apr

Never-ending story

The question never really goes away: what is the future of public broadcasting? Earlier this month, we learned the CBC is folding its Calgary Newsworld tent and retreating back to […]

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5 Apr

Olympic battle

Should we expect press freedom as a precondition for hosting the Olympics? Journalists will gather in Paris next week for a special conference titled “Beijing Olympics 2008: Winning Press Freedom.” […]

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31 Mar

Those were the days?

In The Decline and Fall of the Kingston Whig-Standard, published by the online news magazine Straight Goods, author Jamie Swift questions a series of ownership and staff changes at the […]

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25 Mar

Anonymous sources under siege

While the National Post decides to appeal a recent decision that forces it to release a document to police, in another anonymous source case the courts ruled in favour of […]

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