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

Blame technology. According to the Inside the CBC blog, the reason behind CBC.ca was down for much of Thursday 29 May was “a major data storage ‘fallover’ involving all redundancy systems”. Despite the site being down, work continued behind the scenes, as Jonathan Dube of CBC News’ director of digital media explained: What you couldn’t see was that the CBCNews.ca staff continued to write and update dozens more stories all

Here are the top news and information online properties in Canada for March 2008, according to comScore Media Metrix, in terms of unique visitors. Google sites – 22,436,000 Microsoft sites – 22,341,000 Yahoo! sites -16,215,000 Wikipedia sites – 11,222,000 AOL – 10,123,000 Canoe Network – 8,391,000 Fox Interactive Media – 7,769, 000 The Weather Network – 7,717,000 CTVglobemedia – 7,655,000 CNET Networks – 7,197,000 New York Times Digital – 7,056,000