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Extra, extra, not dead yet

02/08/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh The trend is not good for newspapers. Ad revenue is down, circulation is down, the number of stories are down, employment is down. Newspapers are starting to look like vinyl did when shiny new CDs showed up. So old-fashioned, a refuge only for fuddy-duddies and luddites. Record buyers everywhere ditched their collections […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: blogs, Globe, internet, internet journalism, newspapers, online me, Vancouver, Vancouver Sun

Not much media behind Postmedia’s paywalls

05/14/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher As suddenly as the Berlin Wall fell, paywalls went up today across the Postmedia “content network,” or whatever we call what we used to call “newspaper chains.” Steve Ladurantaye, media reporter for the competing Globe, broke the news to a non-waiting nation by posting the death notice internal memo on his personal website. […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: business, Canada, Globe and Mail, Gordon Fisher, internet journalism, journalism, New York Times, newspapers, Pacific Newspaper Group, Phillip Crawley, Postmedia

No WikiLove for Canada Day

07/04/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Wikipedia is working on a new feature to allow visitors to express appreciation for its poor beleaguered editors by clicking on a Wikilove icon (a heart) and sending a message of appreciation. Seems that editors get a lot of negative criticism for some reason — perhaps for assuming authority even over experts by virtue of […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Australia, Canada, internet journalism, journalism, New Zealand, online media, online publishing, wikipedia

McLuhan saw this coming

02/15/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Dave Brindle Lost in all of the hum online about Egypt and the CRTC was that 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan. He was right. When I tweeted that, my friend Rod Mickleburgh of The Globe and Mail shot back: @davebrindleshow mcluhan was certainly right when he gave my […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: broadcasting, Canada, CRTC, Egypt, internet, internet journalism, Marshall McLuhan, new media, social media, television

Stelmach resignation leaves old-school media in the dust

01/26/2011 by backofthebook.ca 5 Comments

By Brian Brennan Can the mainstream print media successfully reinvent itself to become as relevant to news consumers in the digital age as it used to be back in the days when readers looked to their morning newspapers for authoritative coverage of the previous day’s events? The question arises in the wake of Tuesday’s surprise […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Alberta, blogs, Calgary, Calgary Herald, Don Braid, internet journalism, new media, newspapers

Mike Farnworth: gay matters

01/22/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Dave Brindle Is BC ready for a story asking if it’s ready for a gay leader? It’s the story that Mike Farnworth, a leading contender to replace the deposed Carole James as leader of BC’s NDP, knew would be told before he announced his candidacy. A story that I, along with NDP MLA Spencer […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: British Columbia, Gary Mason, Globe and Mail, internet journalism, journalism, LGBTQ, Mike Farnworth, NDP, newspapers

The Harper marriage and the Globe

01/07/2011 by backofthebook.ca 30 Comments

By Frank Moher While you were enjoying the festive season, The Globe and Mail found itself disagreeing with one of its columnists about an item on its website. The Globe settled the matter with a keystroke. Both parties have since been studiously decorous about the matter, but it deserves a second look before disappearing down the memory hole. On […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Globe and Mail, internet, internet journalism, journalism, Laureen Harper, National Post, newspapers, Ottawa, Ottawa Citizen, Stephen Harper

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By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

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Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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