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Link farm April 20 – Apple takes Fiore’s cartoon app – and other news
Nieman Journalism Lab Apple approves Pulitzer winner’s iPhone app; cartoonist now free to mock the powerful on cell phones The media business (Robert Picard blog); Search for alternative media...
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Garbage in Garbage out: How bad data will cripple the future of news
(Note I haven’t been doing much blogging for the past several months. I took early retirement from CBC News and moved back to my old hometown of Kitimat, British Columbia, a process that took much...
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In the beginning: Why the media couldn’t charge for content.
If only, if only, my colleagues say, if only the news media had started charging for content when they launched their first websites. If only the media had charged, then none of the current problems...
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Thirty years in “new media.” Part I A new perception
If someone, and that someone is me, can spend almost of all of a thirty year journalism career in what’s still being called “new media” and then take early retirement, isn’t it time we started calling...
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Thirty years in “new media” Part II The veteran strikes back
A reader of the part of one of this blog, might ask, “Did you really spend thirty years in new media?” The answer is a yes and I was into computers long before that. In 1968, as a teenage page at the...
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“Real time” news tweets, the sinking of the Titanic
A couple of days ago, the Nova Scotia Museum in Halifax, which holds most of the surviving artifacts of the ill-fated RMS Titanic, recreated the morse code radio distress messages as “real time”...
View ArticleIt’s not just Kai Nagata that’s quitting, it’s the whole damned demographic
I intend to write a longer blog on the raging debate over Kai Nagata’s now famous blog about his resignation from CTV News, Why I Quit My Job putting it in a wider and historic perspective. Throughout...
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Bell Canada has killed my local bookstore
Independent bookstores across North America are in trouble. The business model is changing as more and more readers move to tablets and e-readers, with competition from video games and the lure of all...
View ArticleA radical (interim) solution to save newspapers: fire all the columnists
I am going to make a radical suggestion that just might save the dying newspaper industry (for a while). Fire all your columnists. Newspapers should do the one thing they used to be good at–original...
View ArticleBoth CBC and CTV failed to cover the Quebec mosque shooting. They forgot that...
As a retired producer who worked at the national level at both CBC News and CTV News I was appalled at the superficial (to say the very least) coverage in English Canada of the shooting at a Quebec...
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