And some other choice phrases that might describe the snafu the Review team noticed in The Globe and Mail yesterday. The first line of a Report on Business story by Susan Krashinsky reads: “Vancouver’s radio dial is about to get a bit more bolshoy.” The story is about a Russian media group taking over Vancouver… Continue reading F is for Friday

Writing for this blog is no fun. It’s true. As I searched for something to write about journalism or media that wasn’t bleak or depressing, I found my options were slim. Do I opine on the ease of which Reuters’ kills their own stories whenever Obama calls? Or maybe I ought to discuss Prism Magazine, the… Continue reading Journalism: SAVED!

Much has been made of the new Canada Periodical Fund, which Masthead calls the “biggest shake-up” to hit mag-funding in a long, long time. We all had a fun time parsing the politics behind the changes the feds were making to magazine funding: Artsy, small circulation mags were upset to learn that they may get… Continue reading Farm publications rock

Rupert Murdoch’s success as one of the first newspaper publishers to put material online has now backfired. He is calling search engines such as Google News and Digg thieves for using their copyrighted content to fatten their own pockets. “They are feeding off the hard-earned efforts and investments of others. And their almost wholesale misappropriation… Continue reading This blog will soon be sued under copyright laws