Women in the Field: A Short Round-Up
If you couldn’t make the symposium on women in the media last week, here’s the lowdown on what you missed. “‘Equal’ in the Newsroom: More Like Sweet and Low” Moderated by Ann Rauhala, director of the newspaper stream at the Ryerson School of Journalism, she spent 16 years at The Globe and Mail where she […]
Federal Budget Gives Media A Helping Hand
Even if opposition leaders did not support the 2011-2012 budget released by the federal government Tuesday – and set the ball rolling for a likely spring election – there is some good news: the figures announced by Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty include hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent toward digital media production […]
New York Times Paywall Less Than Sturdy
The New York Times has been testing its long awaited pay wall in Canada for the past week – and already people have gleefully devised multiple ways to get around it. The pay wall – which will go live in the U.S. on Monday – requires readers to pay $15 to $35 a month, depending […]
Editor of Maisonneuve steps down to join Reader’s Digest
Carmine Starnino, editor-in-chief and co-founder of Maisonneuve, recently announced he will be stepping down to join Reader’s Digest, “Canada’s most trusted magazine.” Starnino has worked part-time for Reader’s Digest in the past, and he will now be taking on a full-time position there as senior editor. RD has been declared as being the most influential […]
Broken Pencil co-founder Hal Niedzviecki offers up his Must-List
An exclusive, ongoing RRJ series featuring leading Canadian journalists and their top picks for pieces every journalist “must read,” “must watch” and “must listen” to before they die.
TODAY: Writer, editor and pop culture critic Hal Niedzviecki Hal Niedzviecki is the author of ten books including The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbours, which was listed as one of Oprah’s top-25 reads for the summer and the inspiration of the much-anticipated documentary of the same name. He […]
Some of Linden MacIntyre’s favourite journalism
An exclusive, ongoing RRJ series featuring leading Canadian journalists and their top picks for pieces every journalist “must read,” “must watch” and “must listen” to before they die.
TODAY: Journalist Linden MacIntyre Linden MacIntyre is co-host of The Fifth Estate, CBC Television’s investigative journalism program. He has written several books, most notably The Bishop’s Man, which won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize. MacIntyre lives in Toronto. Harvey Cashore: “Luck of the Draw ” (The Fifth Estate, CBC Television, original air dates: October 25, 2006; […]
Postmedia to go public and Yukon News sues CBC
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Postmedia to Go Public On Tuesday, March 15, Postmedia Network Canada Corp. filed a preliminary non-offering prospectus in order to list its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange. According to the Globe and Mail, the potential listing comes as no surprise because the lenders who bought the company formerly known as CanWest made the condition […]
Online Surpasses Newspapers According To Pew Report
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The stats have been pouring in over the last year, and they all point to one thing: online news is set to dominate the media landscape. This week the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism released their annual State of the News Media report, which found that online consumption of news has finally surpassed newspapers […]
Howard Green talks about his all-time favourite pieces of journalism
An exclusive, ongoing RRJ series featuring leading Canadian journalists and their top picks for pieces every journalist “must read,” “must watch” and “must listen” to before they die.
TODAY: Broadcaster and documentary filmmaker Howard Green Howard Green is a journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker. He is anchor of the Business News Network’s Headline and Market Call, and the director, writer and co-producer of the Gemini Award-winning documentary The Investigation of Swissair 111. Robert MacNeil: The Right Place at the Right Time (1982) “The […]
Digital Magazine Editions On The Rise
Condé Nast — publisher of the New Yorker, Vogue and Wired, to name a few — announced at the South by Southwest Conference that the company intends to have digital versions of all its 20-plus magazines by the end of the year. But Condé Nast executive Rick Levine says he is wary of Apple’s dominance […]
