The Harper government dealt a low blow to Canada’s queer publications when it announced revisions to the aid-to-publishers budgets, part of the Canadian Periodical Fund, on Jan. 19th. Small publications must have a total 5,000-copy annual paid circulation to be eligible for financial assistance, and publications like Fab Magazine don’t make the cut. Queer mags were formerly exempt from… Continue reading Queer? Not welcome
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We’re not done yet
It’s been just over a week since Team Canada’s heroic gold-medal victory against their U.S. counterparts in the men’s hockey finals of the Olympics. That night all of Canada seemed to rejoice: horns honked until the wee hours of the morning and Canadian columnists draped their newspapers’ front pages with emotional, patriotic outbursts of pride.… Continue reading We’re not done yet
Chatelaine fires six
A blog post on this site yesterday evening erroneously reported that Ken Whyte laid off five staff at Chatelaine magazine. Though six staff members have beenlaid off, there is no evidence explicitly pointing to Whyte’s role in the situation. The blog post has been removed, and the Ryerson Review of Journalism regrets the error. According to the Financial Post, those laid off… Continue reading Chatelaine fires six
BREAKING: More staff out at Chatelaine
At 5:13 p.m. today David Hayes sent out an email to the Toronto Freelance Editor and Writer’s list with news that Ken Whyte has laid off five more atChatelaine. Those laid off include Hayes’s handling editor Rachel Giese, and deputy editor Melanie Morassutti, who is on maternity leave. “The next (last?) stage in the purge… Continue reading BREAKING: More staff out at Chatelaine
Cutting down, beefing up
Yesterday, BBC director general Mark Thompson declared to the globe the station’s pursuit to produce “the best journalism in the world.” This is in response to an uproar from critics after BBC announced the 600 million-pound ($932.8 million) restructure that would see the elimination of the network’s sports programming and popular TV shows like Mad Men, The Office and The Wire. Thompson went… Continue reading Cutting down, beefing up