Many feared that social media would undermine professional reporting. Defensive journalists derided it. “I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery,” quipped Morley Safer, a CBS correspondent. As it turns out, photographs, videos and tweets from ordinary people are improving and expanding news coverage. They also create work for journalists who know how to curate, authenticate and analyse their material.
Friday, May 31, 2013
The Guardian newspaper opens cafe in London
The British newspaper The Guardian has opened what it callx a "data-driven" cafe in London, sparking swift, bitter, funny, as well as bitterly funny reactions in the Twittersphere. Despite the little fanfare to accompany the coffee shop's opening in Shoreditch this week, the Twittersphere got wind of the new cafe and made the hashtag #guardiancoffee a trending topic Thursday. Opened to provide journalists with a workspace, #Guardiancoffee is tech and social media-heavy, with flat screens lining the walls, which broadcast live tweets about the cafe, live coffee sales, and tablets made available at nearly every table which themselves are emblazoned with a lowercase 'g' in the paper's trademark font. Thursday, May 30, 2013
Mike Duffy sought cabinet post and perks after Senate appointment
Mike Duffy sought a cabinet post — and the perks that went with it — soon after he was named to the Senate to compensate him for his “expanded” role in the Conservative party, new records show
Duffy, a once valued Conservative fundraiser now at the centre of the Senate spending scandal, also raised the idea of the party hiring his private company, according to emails obtained by CBC News.
Just months after being named to the red chamber by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2009, Duffy, a former CTV journalist, was apparently agitating for even more.
“I suggested they make me a (minister) without portfolio, so I get a staff, car and more resources to deal with pr fallout,” he writes in a July, 2009 email to an unidentified Conservative.
His email continues, “what do I demand.
“That the Cons hire my private company and I use the cash to hire additional staff to assist with these gigs?” writes Duffy, who gave speeches through his company Mike Duffy Media.
(No, it's not a joke-ed)
(No, it's not a joke-ed)
Rogers kills City News Channel, 62 jobs lost
It's a stunning media story in what seems to a be world where any news channel is a good news channel. Rogers Communications Inc. is killing off City News channel after 20 months of operation. Scott Moore, president of broadcast at the Rogers Media division, announced the decision to immediately shut down the channel on Thursday. City News Channel was thought by media watchers to be the signal that would challenge CTV's CP24. For whatever reason, Rogers has no stomach for that competition. In fact, Rogers handling of City News Channel has been odd from the start. It seemed an easy thing for Rogers to bundle the City signal into its package of news sources for which some customers pay good money, and thus deliver a more consistent audience to the service. But they did not. Instead, City News channel seemed to travel all over the dial almost as if Rogers wasn't in control of where it landed. Short term, it is easy to see how Rogers will cut some costs. Longer term, BTV and Citypulse at Six are going to have to watch their local flanks carefully.
Thomson Reuters hires Economist Group chief to head news agency arm
Andrew Rashbass, the chief executive of the Economist Group, is to join Thomson Reuters to take the newly-created role of chief executive of the Reuters news agency and media arm.Rashbass, who has been with the publisher of the Economist for 15 years, has taken the top post at the Reuters news agency business slotting in above president and editor-in-chief Stephen Adler.
He has been widely credited with the continuing successful transition of the Economist, which is 50% owned by Financial Times owner Pearson, from a print- and advertising-reliant title to a multimedia product with a significant digital subscription base.
In the year to 31 March 2012 Rashbass was paid total remuneration of £1.05m, including a bonus of £470,000, for his efforts leading the group.
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