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From AP via TheStar.com: The dead hover over the morning meeting at Russia's leading investigative newspaper and chief editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov is in an understandably foul mood as Novaya Gazeta's staffers try to plan the next of its three weekly editions. In a corner hang photos of four reporters Muratov has lost in the past [...]
Sat, January 31 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From CP via CTV.ca: (posted Jan. 30) As advertising revenues evaporate at a merciless pace, Canadian newspapers have had to slash jobs and shutter divisions to keep afloat, with rising online ad sales providing a much-needed lifeline as they transition to new technology. But with U.S. media bellwether the New York Times posting weaker quarterly [...]
Sat, January 31 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
With oil prices falling, much of the runaway expansion planned for Alberta's oilsands has been put on hold for now. Could this be an opportunity. Globe and Mail energy reporter Shawn McCarthy explores that question. From the Jan. 30 Globe and Mail: In the absence of a headlong rush for development, there is a chance [...]
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From the Globe and Mail: It was an attack, vicious even by Afghanistan's violent standards, that shocked the world: A group of men on motorbikes surprised a group of school girls and teachers as they walked to school last November and sprayed their faces with acid. Now, in what is being billed as a triumph [...]
Sat, January 31 2009 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off
Saw this on globeandmail.com's media news page: In fairness, they're not quite the same stories They are pretty much the same stories. From Wednesday: The New York Times Co. said Wednesday that fourth-quarter earnings plunged 48 per cent and online sales fell for the first time as the recession depressed spending by advertisers. The results [...]
Sat, January 31 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
David Akin shook the Twittersphere to its core with this tweet tonight: davidakin I’m de-twittering. http://tinyurl.com/bg6a3m about 1 hour ago from web
Fri, January 30 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From ctvtoronto.ca: A former Ontario NDP finance minister lambasted for running a deficit to fight the recession in 1991 has given a thumbs-up to a Conservative federal deficit budget authored by a disciple of the “Common Sense Revolution.” Floyd Laughren told ctvtoronto.ca on Wednesday that he thinks the budget of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty [...]
Thu, January 29 2009 » Main Page, politics » Comments Off
Globeandmail.com took another stab at live-blogging, this time with the federal budget (I previously blogged about their effort on the St. Andrew's subway shooting). Your genial hosts were Report on Business columnist Andrew Willis, editorial page editor John Geiger and communities editor Mathew Ingram. A commenter named cimmetry made a few observations. At 3:23 p.m., Ingram [...]
Wed, January 28 2009 » Main Page, Media » 4 Comments
There is a Tim Hortons about to open at Bathurst Street and Queen Street West. I seem to remember an outraged reaction the last time Timmy tried to move in (2002 rings a bell; it was looking at a space at Queen and Tecumseth currently occupied by a meat-heavy resto named Vdara). No one seems [...]
Wed, January 28 2009 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
From the BBC: A team of environmental researchers in the US has warned many effects of climate change are irreversible. The scientists concluded global temperatures could remain high for 1,000 years, even if carbon emissions can somehow be halted. Their report was sponsored by the US Department of Energy and comes as President Obama announces [...]
Tue, January 27 2009 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off