Archive for February, 2011
Canadians do like their newspapers
A column on Moneyville is bullish on newspapers. David Olive reports that 77% of Canadian adults read a print or online version of a newspaper at least once a week and newspaper readership has gone up by 3.7% in the last five years. Not only that, but people in the “top ten” markets spend 3.8 […]
“Hey Arianna, Can You Spare a Dime?”
California freelancers have started a Facebook group to ask Arianna Huffington to share some of her $350 million windfall from the recent sale of the Huffington Post to AOL. The episode is a stark lesson for those writers who thought that simply being allowed to contribute to this revolutionary media form was compensation enough. The new […]
Writers and editors: the eternal dance
Every writer can benefit from having additional eyeballs checking over his/her work prior to publication, but that doesn’t mean that relationships between writers and editors always go smoothly. Globe & Mail columnist Russell Smith opines on the issue at www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/russell-smith/what-real-editors-really-do-and-why-writers-should-avoid-freelancers/article1900721/ … and then gets lambasted by a bunch of editors, freelance and otherwise, in the […]
Content=journalism adulterated into mere commodity
Tim Rutten skewers AOL and the Huffington Post in today’s LA Times. The company and blog are a match made in journalism hell. Both have contributed to reducing online journalism to a slight commodity that exploits desperate journalists, many of whom lost their jobs – and benefits and pensions – in the traditional media. Here’s the conclusion Rutten draws: […]
Don’t drop rule against false and misleading news
The CRTC must withdraw the proposed weakening of a regulation that bans false and misleading news from the airwaves and call a public hearing on broadcast news, says the Canadian Media Guild. “The Commission appears to be proposing to give (broadcasters) free rein to lie and mislead the Canadian public in the guise of delivering […]
Media union concerned about journos in Egypt
The following statement has been posted at cmg.ca: We are deeply concerned about stories emerging this week from Egypt about beatings, detention and harassment of journalists, including our own colleagues. The events underscore how dangerous our work can be and yet how vitally important it is in order to let the world know what is […]
Unlocking the cells at the Toronto Star
Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke will be the guest at Massey College‘s Press Club Night on February 16. John Fraser, the Master of the college, which houses a few 19th century presses in the basement, will host the conversation based on Cooke’s answer to his question of “how many new journalists” the paper had to hire […]
Seeking part-time editor for story board
We are seeking a part-time editor for thestoryboard.ca. The editor will be engaged to work an average of about 10 hours per week developing original copy for blog entries, covering news about the industry, seeking and editing submissions from occasional contributors, and developing the readership and participation in the blog through social media. The editor will […]
