Yesterday morning, at roughly 10:45am, a gunman opened fire in a subway station in downtown Toronto.
That incident alone was guaranteed to generate news interest; however one newspaper’s coverage caught my interest.
The Globe and Mail newspaper used Cover It Live (which I’ve used in the past) to live-blog its coverage following the shooting, complete with (moderated) [...]
Category Archives: media
Live-Blogging Breaking News – A Good Idea?
January 23, 2009 – 8:00 am
Are Media Channels Diverging Or Converging?
December 9, 2008 – 8:00 am
While looking over the new Vancouver Sun website recently (congratulations again on the redesign to Kirk Lapointe and his team), a blog post by Pamela Fayerman on the Sun’s Medicine Matters blog caught my eye.
Fayerman’s post, entitled Health and medical blogs; what interests you?, offers a couple of interesting thoughts on the changing nature [...]
Why Christie Blatchford Won’t Blog
August 22, 2008 – 6:44 pm
Christie Blatchford wrote an excellent piece in Thursday’s Globe and Mail entitled, “I’m not blogging this, mark my words.”
Her article is basically a rant about the challenges of blogging in Beijing, of the challenges of journalists blogging and of the effects that new media tools like blogs and podcasts are having on journalistic quality. I [...]
Twitter Becoming A Source, Not Just News
August 19, 2008 – 10:47 pm
Is Twitter moving beyond being a news story and towards becoming a credible source for them?
Not too long ago I got excited whenever I saw Twitter mentioned as the subject of a news article. Recently, though, I’ve noticed an increasing number of mainstream news articles using Twitter as a source rather than a subject.
The [...]
Citizen Journalists Break Toronto Explosion Story
August 10, 2008 – 12:34 pm
I got home from my run today to see a Twitter message from Jeremiah Owyang about an explosion and subsequent large-scale evacuation in Toronto’s north end.
Yes, through the wonderful power of the web, the news traveled down to San Francisco and back up to me. A tremendous demonstration of the power of online communications, and [...]
Newspapers: A Growth Business?
July 27, 2008 – 3:15 pm
According to the World Association of Newspapers, newspaper circulations world-wide rose 2.57% in 2007 and 9.39% over the last five years.
Don’t Believe Everything You See
July 10, 2008 – 4:52 pm
Multiple newspapers including The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times and NYTimes.com published a photograph of Iran’s recent missile test today. The photograph shows four missiles moments after their launch. The problem? It appears only three missiles were successfully launched.
Globe And Mail Ends ‘Insider’ Subscriptions – All Articles Now Free
June 9, 2008 – 10:54 pm
The Globe and Mail newspaper, a rare hold-out in the age of free online content, removed the shackles from its website last week. As of May 31 all of the Globe’s columnists, horoscopes, puzzles and more are available for free.
Study Examines The Impact Of PR On News
June 9, 2008 – 10:36 pm
The pressure to produce three times as much content as they did twenty years ago means that journalists are heavily reliant on pre-packaged information and have little time to follow-up on it.
Low-Brow Reporting From The Globe And Mail
January 30, 2008 – 10:42 pm
Referring to this story in the Globe and Mail.
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