Category: Blog

Sometimes, how the story was broken becomes a story in itself. First, yesterday’s big news was that Postmedia News offered the National Post‘s entire newsroom buyouts. An internal memo, sent to all Post staff last Friday, informed employees they had until the end of this week to accept the deal, which offers three weeks of pay per year on… Continue reading When Twitter becomes the news

Amongst some journalists, you’ll still witness a slight shutter at the mention of bloggers. It’s not that they feel challenged anymore (the threat of citizen journalism is so 2008) or fear for their jobs. But, whether they’ll cop to it or not, there’s still a sense that blogging is not “real” journalism. But this sentiment… Continue reading The RRJ’s journalism blog: not an oxymoron

Paul Michelman over at Harvard Business Review is worried publishers are going to fail with the iPad in the same way they failed online. Taking the print product and making it digital didn’t work online, and it won’t work with the iPad, wrote Michelman. “The publishing industry’s strategy: create products and experiences that so mimic print that… Continue reading Max iPad

I was just in Cuba. You all know this because I blogged about it here before I left. Well, there were no issues with the custom agents; most of them were young and female and attractive and more interested in finishing their evening shift than sifting through our bags. The reception we received from the Cuban public… Continue reading Cuban ethical dilemmas

Get this—a post that doesn’t lead with the words “layoff,” “severance,” “grim,” or “death!” (Simple pleasures, for us folks at the Review; just let us have it.) No, today it’s good news! A new online fashion mag has just been launched! Yes, you read that right—growth. The Style Notebook is the new sister site to Torontoist and promises to go… Continue reading Bewildering