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 of [...]
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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 Godfrey, [...]
A few minutes from the hour-long performance by La Bottine Souriante, the Quebec-based folk (and more) group, that performed at LiveCity Vancouver Friday, as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Great music, great energy, great performance.
Barring two upsets — Norway in curling and the U.S. in hockey — it appears as though Canada will finish the 2010 Winter Olympics not only with the most gold medals, but with the most gold medals ever won by a country at a winter Olympics.
Good for us. That’s a helluva an accomplishment and there [...]
This one’s for my students.
You get better by doing, which means always practicing. It’s not about the assignments and the grades; it’s about going out and pushing.
Challenge yourself.
Take your camera out today and shoot as though cropping had never been invented. Make every pixel in every image count.
Take a walk through the neighbourhood of our [...]
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We journalists love our aphorisms. One of them popped into my Tweet stream this morning:
“News is something everyone wants to repress. The rest is advertising.”
(The most-loved it would seem, based on how often we hear it, is: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”)
All such sayings are cute and pithy. They [...]
The blog has been resurrected after the hacker attack.
Things are still a bit of a mess around here — category menus don’t work, for instance — but the content has almost all been restored. That’s only because I use a WP plug-in that backs up my database once a week and emails me the result. [...]
I’m on the verge of recommending that our journalism program get out of the newspaper business.
(This is not an anti-print rant, nor does it mean I’m one of those who sees no future for print. What drives this isn’t a matter of platform, it’s thinking about how best to teach skills.)
Our print issue has [...]
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