At Nieman: How a tightly paywalled, social-media-ignoring, anti-copy-paste, gossipy news site became a dominant force in Nova Scotia
AllNovaScotia.com is challenging its historic print rival for the attention of the province’s leaders.
At CAJ: Guidelines for correcting & updating content
I played a minor role on a committee that released a pretty major document today. The Canadian Association of Journalists Ethics Committee released guidelines for updating and correcting information published online.
At Nieman: A newspaper finds success with its downtown news cafe
The Winnipeg Free Press is showing the public how the sausage is made, using more than just the online tools favoured by many news outlets.
At Nieman: In Canada & N.Z., news agencies struggle with the co-op model
In a piece at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab this month, I look at the fortunes of national news agencies structured as co-operatives. Co-op agencies thrived in the 20th century as a way for small newspapers in isolated markets to carry national news. But the Canadian Press has restructured itself as a private entity and the New … Continue reading At Nieman: In Canada & N.Z., news agencies struggle with the co-op model