Newspapers

[dewline]

I've been musing for a while that Ottawa needs a third daily paper operating on a variant of the Toronto Star's Atkinson Principles. Now imagine my pleased surprise when alexjay points out a links page full of freebie educaational URLs.

Which leads me to this one: How to Run a Newspaper or Magazine at WikiBooks.

Wondering if anyone I know in this town's going to take a run at such a project if they find that last link at all useful. Also wondering if that last link could be useful enough...?

Comments

[mencc1701.livejournal.com]

The Star really is an excellent paper, especially when taken in combination with the Globe.

I can't quite say the same about the Citizen...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

The Citizen still proves useful on a close-to-daily basis. However, I do think they and the Sun could do with some real competition in terms of editorial POVs. Both papers' bosses seem quite content to stick to contesting the same patch of centre/centre-right ground at the moment.

[mencc1701.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as far as the actual journalism goes, the Citizen is generally okay. But I completely agree on the editorial level... there's very little balance on the local level.