Something I didn’t know about her: As the last President of the National P.C. Women’s Caucus, Jennifer was an advocate for the involvement and advancement of women in politics. She was proud to serve as Chief of Staff to the Right Honourable Joe Clark, then P.C. Party Leader. Pity. The
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Kiss It Goodbye, Toronto Star
TorStar to launch Toronto Star paywall tomorrow.— Laura Hubbard (@laurahubb) August 12, 2013 That is all.
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Midland Press closed this morning with a loss of five jobs, though it doesn’t look as though they have bothered to put up notice of the fact on their website: Did Midland even get a farewell in their print edition? I looked online and I don’t see anything. I’m also not
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Andrew Coyne’s Letter To Ezra: The Secret First Draft
Andrew Coyne, in response to a query from Ezra Levant, has written a short letter outlining his position with respect to the CRTC’s granting CBC special distribution rights. I have been able to acquire (through secret sources at the National Post) an early draft of this letter, which I think
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: What Does Paying For A Look Behind The Globe Pay-Wall Get You?
According to Media culpa, a three year old article that first appeared in The National Post…on the subject of kilts.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The End Of The Canadian Jewish News
With great sadness, I have to announce that The Canadian Jewish News will cease publishing its printed newspaper with its June 20 edition. I never dreamed that I would be writing this. No nightmare of mine envisioned it. For some time, we have known of the ravages that printed newspapers
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Next Time Someone Chides Anonymous
…for their allegedly reckless approach to the Rehtaeh Parsons case, remind them how professional news organizations like the NY Post and CNN covered the Boston bombings. Then tell them to get bent.PS. Haven’t been writing much lately. Am in the middle of a move. Hopefully things will be a bit more
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: More Sun Media Layoffs Coming?
Its starting to sound like it. Toronto Sun Family has a new layoff forum up. From it: Web hits are down since the paywall went up, while social media “experts” are telling journalists to tweet more, post more often on Facebook, engage in every social media outlet out there, on
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Profound Difference
Applies generally–not just to science blogs–I would say. Journalistic logic is always concluding “It sucks, but its there”. From here.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Media To Sell Off Alberta Papers In 2013?
The question: why did Quebecor close one paper in Ontario with 6 employees and circulation of about 18k, but keep a couple of papers in Alberta with ten employees and less than 3k in circulation? The answer, perhaps: even though the rural Alberta papers have low circulation, they were likely not closed
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: There’s No App For That
As part of the changes, News Corp. said it will cease publication of The Daily, its iPad news application, on Dec. 15.“From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation,” Murdoch said in a …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Globe And Mail Exits The Propertied Class
If only they’d launched that pay-wall a month earlier! They would surely have been saved! Now they have to scope-out an alternative site for their new HQ.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Globe Abandons Relevance
Remember that paper that used to look like The NY Times? Its gone now, gone from the Internet. PS. Has the Times already abandoned its firewall? I’ve been visiting Nate Silver three times a day and have been able to get the full-text articles no problem. Same with Revkin.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Reading The Wentrails
As noted by this gentleman on facebook, Margaret Wente’s tri-weekly column has not appeared in a week. Was her punishment for this kind of thing a suspension?
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Open File Closed?
Same problem as all of these new media ventures: there didn’t seem to be an obviously sustainable source of income. The problem is, there may never be one. All these MSM firewalls going up aren’t just another misstep to be eventually corrected when somebody in the industry finally “gets” it. They’re the last
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: How Times Change
This is a picture of the National Post’s Jonathon Kay. I know its hard to look at, but bear with me. Note the cup he’s holding. It’s demonstrates solidarity with the “Canuck 6” a collection of far-right bloggers that Richard Warman sued several years back (and is suing still, because
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Die Media Die More!
From the accompanying post: Journalism professor Jay Rosen of NYU observes that the peak year was the one in which blogging software first appeared.Glad we could help.
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The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a digital newspaper for the iPad age, is laying off nearly a third of its staff. The publisher plans to tell its workers today that it will fire 50 of its 170 employees, according to people familiar with The Daily’s plans. Fuck you
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: I’m Waiting For Andrew Coyne
…’s next lecture on only Conservatives really “get” Capitalism.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Oops
On the front page, too. Here’s the original wording:
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