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Tablets turn the page to a new media experience

Dec 4, 2015Rick SalutinIn a way, a tablet paper is the return of the morning paper you took in off the porch. It's self-sufficient and you spend time with it, one-on-one, says Rick Salutin.

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Have a complaint about the media? You have a new number to call

Dec 4, 2015John MillerNational NewsMedia Council sets out to prove it can be an effective ethical watchdog.

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Digital promises and progress: The year in tech

Dec 23, 2015Wayne MacPhailLately it seems like each year in technology offers more promise than delivery. But, this year we did get progress in some areas -- remarkable, almost magical, progress.

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Capitalism is a terrible boss: Saving journalism from its industry

Jan 28, 2016Nora LoretoLabour might already have examples of media that can work.

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Unless Ottawa steps in, Canadian journalism is doomed

Feb 3, 2016Nick FillmoreA flourishing, capable news media is the oxygen of democracy. In Canada, the mainstream corporate-owned newspapers, are dying. We need to come up with something better.

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I cancelled my newspaper subscriptions cold. And everything's just fine.

Apr 18, 2016Rafe MairThe short conclusion is that the Sun and the Province don't really cover politics in a meaningful way anymore and they never were any hell on other news anyway.

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The journalism gap has created a crisis in Canadian media

Jun 1, 2016Wayne MacPhailWe are reaching a crisis point in Canadian journalism. Newspapers today are a sorry shadow of what they once were and digital upstarts don't have the resources to fill the gaps.

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Gawker and Craigslist: A tale of two sites

Aug 31, 2016Wayne MacPhailIt's hard to imagine two sites more different than Gawker and Craigslist, or two people more diametrically opposed than their founders. But each, in their own way, have shaped...

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Right-wing newspaper owners want your taxes to subsidize their obsolete,...

Sep 29, 2016David J. ClimenhagaNobody had more warning of the extent and nature of the coming digital revolution than the Canadian newspaper industry, and they still blew their future to smithereens....

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Memo to newspapers: Bail yourselves out

Oct 3, 2016John MillerOttawa should resist publishers' demands for tax breaks. They got into this themselves

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The transformation of Canada's media landscape

Dec 24, 2016RedeyeIan Gill, a former editor at the Vancouver Sun, and Marc Edge, journalism educator and media critic, address the present and future state of Canadian media in talks recorded in...

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Decline of reading causes decline in thinking, which impairs social and...

Dec 7, 2018Ed FinnReading is important. It’s that simple. If you doubt it, ask the question: Could a country that had widely read Huckleberry Finn have taken Donald J. Trump seriously for a second?

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New directions for rabble.ca -- an interview with rabble editor-in-chief...

Jan 17, 2019rabble radioBrenda O'Farrell has been rabble's new editor-in-chief for a few months. Now that's she's all settled in, she shares some thoughts about the media ecosystem in Canada and...

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Doomed to failure? Ottawa's aid to journalism misses the mark

Jun 14, 2019John MillerOttawa's plans look more and more like a bailout, designed to prop up old journalistic platforms, not an investment in something that is likely to find a new audience.

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Latest news layoffs show Ottawa's betting on the wrong horses

Nov 23, 2019John MillerTorstar's closure of commuter dailies calls into question the effectiveness of the federal government's $600-million bailout for legacy publishers.

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