What’s the news worth?
Stock prices are dropping and so is revenue. Here’s a look at some numbers that will help you make sense of it all
In his book Mass Disruption, John Stackhouse writes extensively about the effect of the digital revolution that’s been raging for the past decade. “If newspapers [are] to survive… old school [needs] to meet new school in a hurry.” Unfortunately, the industry doesn’t seem to be doing so well, what with La Presse and Nanaimo Daily News ceasing print earlier […]
Op-ed: Dear Canadian journalists
It's time to take action
Dear Canadian journalists, It’s time we have a serious talk. Yes, you are in trouble. It’s not you, it’s the Paul Godfreys of the world. They have pushed a noble profession closer and closer to falling into a black void of unemployment and no value, the Mount Doom for our seemingly cursed pens (or keyboards, if […]
Much ado about endorsements
RRJ does a round-up of the newspaper endorsements for #elxn42
Election day is finally, finally upon us, but the longest campaign in Canadian history since 1872 didn’t end quietly for the country’s print newspapers. If anything, it ended nonsensically. Questions of who controls newspapers’ editorial voice haunted the final week of #elxn42 as print media outlets published their editorial board’s federal election choices. Some internet […]
Mission Impossible
Or so Post doomsayers claim. Why Anne Marie Owens says they’re wrong
Or so Post doomsayers claim. Why Anne Marie Owens says they’re wrong
Endangered species
In an era when the Toronto Sun misspells "Correction" in a correction column, is there any hope for a revival of good copyediting?
By Gin Sexsmith It’s 1972, and the scent of cigarette smoke and stewed coffee acts as a backdrop to the clack clack ching of manual typewriters inThe Globe and Mailnewsroom. Men’s voices fill the room—asking questions, bouncing ideas off one another, laughing at crude jokes. About 15 men in ties and white shirts are seated around a large, […]
