News about news The Toronto Star sparked a lot of WTFs and mockery online when it published an article suggesting wine pairings with movies including 12 Years a Slave. The article has since been “edited” (read: hacked down to just the non-offensive suggestions) and Public Editor Kathy English admits it was a “mistake”. A memo […]
News about news How the Houston Chronicle has been covering the hurricane devastation of the area. Le Devoir on the recommendations from itself and Quebecor to the Chamberland commission looking into police spying on journalists in Quebec. At the CRTC Ian Scott is now the CRTC’s chairperson. The Globe and Mail and Financial Post look […]
News about news Journalism lesson: Always ask about the cat, or else you'll pay. #GalvNews #Harvey pic.twitter.com/RhAGpVdbns — John Wayne Ferguson (@JohnWFerguson) August 29, 2017 A consortium of news organizations has filed recommendations with the Chamberland Commission looking into spying on journalists. Among them are rules that better separate politicians from police. Globe and Mail […]
News about news https://twitter.com/laurenstrapa/status/872981955998097409 Robyn Doolittle, the Globe and Mail reporter who spent a year and a half researching how police departments across the country investigate reports of sexual assault, followed up her big reveal by filing freedom of information requests to police departments to find out how they communicated to each other about their […]
Now that it looks like it’s finally dying down, here’s who’s written about that Andrew Potter Maclean’s piece and McGill’s reaction to it, in alphabetical order (not including letters to the editor or social media posts): Paul Adams, iPolitics Jérémie Bédard-Wien, Ricochet Frédéric Bérard, Métro Denise Bombardier, Journal de Montréal Ann Brocklehurst Michael Byers, Globe […]
News about news The Chamberland commission looking at the protection of journalistic sources in Quebec has begun public hearings. Coverage by La Presse and Le Devoir, notably. Some Kansas high school students investigated their new principal … by googling where she got her degree and discovering that university doesn’t exist. The principal resigned as a […]
News about news The number of published commentaries on Andrew Potter has surpassed 50. I compiled links to them on last week’s digest. The Globe and Mail has reportedly suspended columnist Leah McLaren for a week after Twitter lost its mind over a column she wrote claiming to have tried to breastfeed Michael Chong’s baby. Judith […]
(Late this week because I survived the Great Steve Faguy Man Cold of 2017) News about news There was a Class A shitstorm in Quebec media this week about a piece by Andrew Potter (former Ottawa Citizen editor and current McGill professor) tying the clustertruck on Highway 13 during last week’s snowstorm to some greater […]
So it’s done. At 5am Eastern Time today, after a repeat of Byline with Brian Lilley and a promo ad featuring Pat Bolland, Sun News Network cut to black, eventually being replaced with notices from distributors that the channel has ceased operations.
What is a conflict of interest? Simply put, it’s a situation where one person’s duty to an organization, a cause, a person or something else is in conflict with that person’s relationship to some other organization, person or cause, where the best interests of one might not be in the best interests of another. It […]
On the copy desk of a major newspaper, like in other newsrooms, the employees have developed somewhat of an immunity to the horrors of life. On a daily basis they deal with terrible stories about people dying, whether it’s in war overseas, in a car crash in your home town, or in unusual circumstances just about anywhere. We make […]
Last time in front of #TSN690 @BartsBytes pic.twitter.com/OryioFV6xW — Mitch Melnick (@HunterZThompson) September 19, 2014 John Bartlett, who has been the play-by-play voice of the Canadiens on TSN Radio 690 ever since the station won the rights to the team’s games in 2011, is leaving it to join Rogers as the play-by-play man on regional […]
A week after the Journal de Montréal reported that CKRS-FM in Saguenay wants to become a Rythme FM, the CRTC has published an application from the station that confirms the news. CKRS is owned by Richard Speer’s Attraction Radio, a growing new player in the Quebec radio scene. It officially owns five radio stations, including CJIT-FM in […]
Updated May 6, 2014, with the latest info. It’s the biggest media announcement of the year: A $5.2-billion, 12-year broadcast rights deal between Rogers Communications and the National Hockey league. Included in it are side deals with the CBC (which will air games but won’t get revenue from them or handle their staffing) and TVA, […]
When CBC/Radio-Canada asked the CRTC for permission to air advertising on radio, one of the things it promised is that it would only solicit national advertisers, not local ones, to limit how much it competes with local commercial radio stations. Well, less than a month after ads started airing, one of those commercial stations has […]