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Given the whole debate over the role of local in journalism, a recent Canadian study offers some surprising data.
The study (PDF) into Canadian news habits for the Canadian Media Research Consortium found that TV is the most used source, with the internet and newspapers coming joint second.
What is more interesting is the reasons behind the [...]

June’s Carnival of Journalism, a monthly collection of thoughts from the journalism blogosphere, focused on the issue of local.
The question was whether journalism is better the more local it is. The range of responses shows this is a rich area for debate.
I sat out the carnival as I was on [...]

Image via WikipediaThe Globe and Mail has finally realised that placing its best online content behind subscriber walls is a bad idea.
The newspaper has scrapped its subscription program, freeing up access to its columnists, horoscopes and more.
The question is why it took the Globe and Mail so long to decide that content wants to be [...]

I have been at the ICA annual conference in Montreal this week, talking about the research that Neil Thurman and myself have done into “participatory journalism” in Britain. What follows is a shortened version of the talk, but it is still on the long side for a blog post.
The term participatory journalism is itself rather [...]

Restaurant reviews are the sort of content that lends itself to the web, unless it is published on The Globe and Mail website.
A review of a local restaurant in Vancouver, The New Bohemian, caught my attention for two reasons. Firstly, the negative experience of the reviewer contrasted with my rather more pleasurable visit to the [...]

The findings of the News Barometer survey of newspaper editors has been extensively covered, so I just wanted to pick up on a few of items from it.

“35 percent believe print will reign supreme”. This is a spurious question. Editors should not worry which form of media will reign supreme, but rather which [...]

Image via WikipediaTorstar, owner of Canada’s largest-circulation daily The Toronto Star, is cutting 160 positions in a restructuring of its newspaper division.
Among the job losses are all 10 of the firm’s Internet production staff.
The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada has questioned this decision, with official Maureen Dawson saying:
Their message to the world [...]

Misinformed quote of the day from Dan Brown, online editor at The London Free Press in Canada:
When I graduated from journalism school in 1996, no one knew what a blog was. Heck, we still haven’t decided if blogs are journalism
Silly me, I thought we had resolved this debate and the fruitless argument of bloggers vs [...]

Chris Lloyd, assistant managing editor of the Telegraph Media Group, reflects on a year of change at the newspaper.

Shot on a Nokia N95 at the Online Journalism Symposium in Austin, Texas

I caught up with Jim Brady, executive editor of the WashingtonPost.com during one of the lunch break at this weekend’s Online Journalism Symposium at Austin, Texas, to find out what was happening at the news website:

(Shot on a Nokia N95)