By Arielle Piat-Sauvé Guy Crevier knew something needed to change when he compared the drop in newspaper revenue to the aging baby-boomer population. The president and publisher of La Presse suspected that as his core readership aged, newspaper sales could decrease significantly. Fearing it was only a matter of time before the traditional newspaper model… Continue reading Is La Presse+ the solution to newspaper woes or a capitulation to advertisers?
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Jane Armstrong takes her passion for investigative journalism to The Tyee
By Megan Matsuda Jane Armstrong got chills when she heard Rita Daly’s idea for a new investigative series. The two Toronto Star reporters were at a party, chatting in the backyard. Why, Daly asked, did so few domestic abuse cases result in a conviction? Together with Caroline Mallan, they began an intense, nearly year-long effort… Continue reading Jane Armstrong takes her passion for investigative journalism to The Tyee
Canadian University Press must reinvent itself to stay alive
By Amy Grief When the sports editor at the Queen’s Journal requested media passes from the school’s athletics department in August, he received one instead of the usual eight. Back in March, the previous sports editor, Nick Faris, reported on how Queen’s University Athletics selected its varsity team of the year after nullifying an original… Continue reading Canadian University Press must reinvent itself to stay alive
Missed opportunity: the Rice video was about domestic abuse, not sports
By Alanna Kelly There are many viral videos that The Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti refuses to watch, but she had to see the video that showed Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée Janay Palmer. As disgusting as it was, it showed an issue that people needed to talk about. The couple had just left… Continue reading Missed opportunity: the Rice video was about domestic abuse, not sports
Sketches of Obe
Don Obe 1936-2014 No better magazine editor ever put pencil to paper than Don Obe. And that’s when he would have stopped me. “Awkward sentence, Paul,” he would have said. “And what kind of pencil? Short? Stubby? 2B? HB? Eraser? Details, Paul, details.” I met Don at this time of year in 1961… Continue reading Sketches of Obe