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Common Sense Journalism (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Catching up on some things from Thursday's sessions, who would have thought we'd have so much about Canada? Good stuff, and it points out how we need to broaden our research perspectives (yes, folks, consider that a pitch to contribute articles to The Convergence Newsletter ). In separate presentations Kim Kierans, King's College and Marc Edge, Sam Houston State took at look at the Canadian media landscape...
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Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Pushing the boundaries of new media and broadcast journalism. That's the claim of the Berlin Project By covering a modern day Germany 20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, this five–member team – whose work has been published and broadcast on various high profile media outlets including the BBC, CNN, Sky News, Reuters, CBC and CanWest Media Works – will use multiple platforms...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
WINNIPEG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Canwest Global Communications Corp. (“Canwest” or the “Company”) announced today that Canwest and certain of its subsidiaries have agreed with members of the ad hoc committee of 8% senior subordinated noteholders (the “Ad Hoc Committee”) of Canwest Media Inc. to extend until November 30, 2009 the date by which the Company must file a consensual...
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Soldiers' Angels Germany (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Col. Danielle Savard, left, departing commanding officer at the Role 3 hospital, poses for photos with her replacement, U.S. Navy Capt. Darin Via at a change of command ceremony at RC South headquarters at Kandahar Airfield, Afgahanistan, Oct. 15, 2009. Photograph by: Bruce Ward, Canwest News Service.Thank you and well done, Canada!KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The multinational hospital here...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Legal News: Investment bank claims media co. not conveying major changes -- U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs has initiated a legal battle with beleagured Canuck broadcaster Canwest Global Communications over control of Canwest's Canadian cable channels.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As Canadians struggle to understand how best to protect their families from H1N1, Canwest and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) today announced a partnership that will help. Each week a series of articles from AboutKidsHealth, developed with the child health experts of SickKids, will appear in the family and child pages of canada.com – www.canada.com/sickkids...
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The Torch (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
On the whole pretty well done. A delightfully succinct summary by Canwest News' David Akin at his blog: Soldiers got tanks but paperwork wasn’t filled out More from the Globe and Mail --the headline is misleading in their sensationalist fashion: Forces stumbled on purchasing National Defence moved quickly on several big deals for military trucks and vehicles, but at least one major purchase was...
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Because No One Asked (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
When did this start? If you want to answer a poll question on Canada.com, which is owned by Canwest Publishing, you have to do it via Facebook. The tiny type at the bottome says “By proceeding, you are allowing canada.com Poll to access your information and you are agreeing to the Facebook Terms of Use in your [...]
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A legal fight between U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs and insolvent Canwest Global Communications Corp. is brewing after Goldman filed court documents suggesting creditors of the media conglomerate have been making moves without telling them.
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Dr. David Butler-Jones, head of the federal Public Health Agency, admits that his department did not foresee the long lineups that beset swine-flu vaccination clinics across the country last week. As recently as Oct. 23, an Ipsos Reid poll for Canwest suggested that 48% of Canadians were either “not very likely” or “not at all likely” to seek out the jab for pandemic H1N1/09....
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Impolitical (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The Conservatives are working hard to create a media narrative of how Liberals and other opposition parties are playing politics with the H1N1 issue. They may be succeeding to a point, media are taking up the challenge, framing their questions to opposition members in that manner, asking them whether they are indeed playing politics. It's difficult then for opposition members to have to justify their...
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Huh. How odd : According to documents, the [National] Post has suffered an unbroken string of losses since its inception in 1998. It now owes $139-million to CanWest Media, the holding company for some of CanWest Global's operating assets. The newspaper, which employs slightly less than 300 people, was $9.3-million in the red last year, the documents say. In its worst year, 2001, the Post lost $60-million....
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TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
At the digital (TVNZ 6 & 7) briefing for TVNZ in the death star this morning. It's a very grey, institutional and solemn, National Library meets Telecom vibe in there, ticking along at its own pace. As for design and communication the only thing you can find in there when you lose your way are posters for Lost. I was hoping for a little more in the programming area than micro-programmes of interstitials...
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Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
There are three reasons to put people in prison. - separate dangerous people from society - rehabilitate criminals - punish and thereby deter crime. As a factual matter, as they exist today, prisons only succeed on reason one. Someone in prison is (generally) not committing crimes outside of jail (they may well be committing crimes inside jail but that's another story). Deterrence and rehabilitation...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
U.S. investment bank tells court that media company's move to dissolve barriers around specialty channel joint venture is ‘abusive'
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