Every once in a while, I have the urge to consolidate the scattered pieces of the online me. And every time I try to bring those pieces in, the web keeps dragging me back out again. The last time I redid this blog, the intent was to consolidate: continue the journalism-related blogging, pull in my [...]
Sometime next month, a day will slip by that marks the 40th anniversary of my more-or-less continual immersion in journalism. When I started, the now-dead Terrace Herald was only two years past the end of hot lead typography (and I had enough earlier exposure to that to love the mixed smell of melting lead and [...]
I’m no good at predictions. An example: when the video-enabled iPod was released, I raved a little about the thing but noted that I didn’t see much point in adding video. So, I don’t have predictions for 2011, but here are a few things I’d like to see in the new year. (1) Media organizations [...]
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On the newspaper front, it seems there has been more cause for fiscal optimism over the last little while. The mantra that “you need to support us because we are good for you” (which tends to put reading newspapers on par with, say, eating broccoli), has slowly given ground to cautious and understated optimism about [...]
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I tweeted this this morning… The problem isn’t coverage of the Koran-burning idiot; it is that we are not yet used to a world in which there is too much journalism. …and got a little push-back, including this from a former student… such a thing as too much journalism? that doesn’t sound right coming from [...]
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I saw this in a Toronto Star article yesterday: John Paton is apparently one of those advising the new owners of chain. Paton is the recently named head of the Journal-Register newspaper group, and when I saw him speak at last month’s International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas, he drew a big round [...]
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Canwest’s newspaper division will emerge from bankruptcy with the major debt holders paid off, new owners and a new lease on life. That’s great news. Relieved of the debt that dragged Canwest into oblivion, the money-making newspaper division will have a chance to carry on. Even better news comes in the early words of Paul [...]
Three brass bands and belly dancers brought the southeastern European spring festival Ederlezi to Vancouver Friday night, giving me chance to do some shooting. This was in the way of a test of both a new 55-250 Canon lens and my newish Canon T2i. Photos were shot RAW, using the P mode, and are untouched [...]
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