I’m very pleased to announce that UBC Graduate School of Journalism has been awarded a $15,000 grant to work with CBC Radio 3 to research and develop a Canadian music wiki website. The aim is to create a “Wikipedia” of Canadian music that will enable Canadians to share their passion and enthusiasm for music, collaborating together to create a rich, online resource. I’m excited to be supervising the partnership, with
PDF The Globe and Mail has beefed up its digital news operation, with the appointment of Anjali Kapoor in the newly-created position of Managing Editor, Digital, and the return of Kenny Yum as Editor, globeandmail.com. Image by cfarivar via Flickr The changes were announced by the Globe’s John Stackhouse in an e-mail to staff, saying: These changes are very much driven by my desire to have an editorial management team that
CBC has appointed the former BBC News online editor Rachel Nixon as its new director of Digital Media for CBC News. Rachel Nixon is an award-winning journalist, having spend nine years with the internationally acclaimed BBCNews.com in a number of increasingly senior positions. In 2007, Rachel was named BBC World Service Editor of the Year for cross-platform editorial leadership. Currently, Nixon is the global news director of Vancouver-based NowPublic.com, the
Image via Wikipedia An internal briefing note by CBC President Hubert Lacroix on the broadcaster’s financial crisis provides some insights into its future. The note aims to answer some of the questions raised by CBC staff following the announcement of sweeping job and programming cuts. One area that was spared was CBC.ca as it is part of CBC’s digital strategy heading forward and its transformation from a broadcaster into a
Image via Wikipedia With traditional news funding models under siege, the former publisher of The Toronto Star John Honderich has taken a look at five potential options. His main focus is how to ensure that quality, investigative journalism contines to receive the funding it needs. The piece is well thought out and argued, aside from one underlying assumption – that this is about saving a media format, the newspaper. From
Supporters of network neutrality have suffered a setback with the CRTC ruling in the case against Bell over Internet throttling. The communications regulator denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers’ (CAIP) request that Bell Canada cease the traffic-shaping practices it has adopted for its wholesale services. However, this is turning out to be just the first round in the battle over network neutrality. The CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein acknowledged
A comprehensive survey of what Canadians do online challenges some assumptions the web and news. The Canadian Internet Project report, Canada Online! The Internet, Media and Emerging Technologies: Uses, Attitudes, Trends and International Comparisons (PDF), looked at Internet habits based on a 2007 survey of more than 3,100 Canadians. It found that new media is not displacing traditional media, saying that online newspapers do not seem to be replacing printed
Canada is in the throes of a general election, with just a few weeks of campaigning before voting on October 14th. Here at the UBC School of Journalism, we spent some time discussing what we could contribute to the media coverage. The big national papers, The Globe and Mail and The National Post both have extensive in-depth sections online, as does CBC News. We decided to take different tack and
Image via Wikipedia Canwest’s decision to ramp up the number of TV shows it offers online might prove to be the right strategy. It is going to stream more than 50 top series – including Knight Rider, 90210, House, Heroes, The Office and Deal or No Deal - on the web. Comments by Canwest executive Barbara Williams suggest the media giant has realised that the way people consume TV is
We have some positions open at my J-school at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. If you are looking for a position and this is a good fit for you, I hope that you will apply. If not, please help us let others know about the opportunities. I would be happy to talk with anyone who is curious about the positions, the school, the university, and the city. Assistant/Associate