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Horror re: CBC Staffing
Dec. 4th, 2023 08:34 pmThis is not what I want for the future of the Public Broadcaster:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-radio-canada-layoffs-budget-1.7048530
Here and I've been listening to this year's edition of the Massey Lectures for most of the afternoon while I was working on the new day job...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-radio-canada-layoffs-budget-1.7048530
Here and I've been listening to this year's edition of the Massey Lectures for most of the afternoon while I was working on the new day job...
Now, here's a thing that I think might actually be a Problem for us here.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/just-how-extreme-is-bill-c-18-it-mandates-payments-merely-for-facilitating-access-to-news/
Is Prof. Geist wrong about this? If so, how? If not, how do we get this stopped? If News Media Canada and/or Friends of Canadian Broadcasting are for it, why, and how do we overcome such objections if this does in fact interfere with our interests as internet users in Canada?
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/just-how-extreme-is-bill-c-18-it-mandates-payments-merely-for-facilitating-access-to-news/
Is Prof. Geist wrong about this? If so, how? If not, how do we get this stopped? If News Media Canada and/or Friends of Canadian Broadcasting are for it, why, and how do we overcome such objections if this does in fact interfere with our interests as internet users in Canada?
Canadian Media: A Departure and a Revival
Jan. 19th, 2022 07:01 amCanada got a bit of a shock last night: Carol Off is ending 16 years as co-host of As It Happens on CBC Radio at the end of next month. Hers is a voice I've gotten used to hearing on the radio, of course, being a longtime CBC listener. The series will continue, of course, well into what we hope is its next full half-century.
The town of Tilbury, Ontario is getting a pleasant shock of its own: they're going to have a newspaper of their own again. Mohsin Abbas, a journalist originally from Pakistan now calling Canada home, is doing the work to make that happen for the Tilbury Times, liberating the brand - so we hope - from Postmedia control. The CBC News report goes into a lot more detail about Tilbury, Mr. Abbas, and the process of rescue and revival.
The town of Tilbury, Ontario is getting a pleasant shock of its own: they're going to have a newspaper of their own again. Mohsin Abbas, a journalist originally from Pakistan now calling Canada home, is doing the work to make that happen for the Tilbury Times, liberating the brand - so we hope - from Postmedia control. The CBC News report goes into a lot more detail about Tilbury, Mr. Abbas, and the process of rescue and revival.
To those of you reading other Canadian newspapers: I see Conservatives rented the front two pages of the Citizen this morning. Did they do the same with any of the other Postmedia-owned newspapers across the country again?
The last time I remember this happening was in 2015.
The last time I remember this happening was in 2015.
So, I committed an activist act just as I was logging in here. Signed up for this:
https://friends.ca/campaigns/michael-enright-in-conversation/
As good as Piya Chattopadhyay is in hosting the show now rebranded as The Sunday Magazine and I am also aware that Mr. Enright and CBC have continuing plans for a future in partnership...well, I've missed hearing his voice on the radio.
I'll be in Zoom mode with that writing workshop being run by the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre in tandem with the Toronto Writers Collective in about half an hour after I post this. It fills a couple of hours with job-skills practice and mental health support. That has to be good.
https://friends.ca/campaigns/michael-enright-in-conversation/
As good as Piya Chattopadhyay is in hosting the show now rebranded as The Sunday Magazine and I am also aware that Mr. Enright and CBC have continuing plans for a future in partnership...well, I've missed hearing his voice on the radio.
I'll be in Zoom mode with that writing workshop being run by the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre in tandem with the Toronto Writers Collective in about half an hour after I post this. It fills a couple of hours with job-skills practice and mental health support. That has to be good.
Is this company strip-mining newspapers across two countries now?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/business/media/hedge-fund-chatham-mcclatchy-postmedia-newspapers.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/business/media/hedge-fund-chatham-mcclatchy-postmedia-newspapers.html
Bundoran Press, No More?
Jul. 15th, 2020 01:20 pmThat's the word I got this morning via Twitter. Hayden Trenholm bought that publishing company from Virginia O'Dine about a decade ago, built it up into one of Canada's independent SF&F powerhouses as far I could see. I have a few of the books put out by Bundoran across the years, and it's going to hurt in several ways to lose them as a company.
Among their titles that I own:
- Defining Diana by Hayden himself.
- Right to Know by Edward Willett
- Strange Bedfellows, an anthology about alternative versions of Canadian history.
Can-Con is going to hurt as well. Bundoran has been part of the core support of our little literary SF&F convention here since it re-started. As if anyone's going to cope with the Time of Pandemic unscathed.
At any rate, if there's any kind of good luck that can befall Bundoran between now and the announced October 30th shutdown date, this post is the start of my effort to invoke it. I hope I'm not alone, and I hope it works.
Among their titles that I own:
- Defining Diana by Hayden himself.
- Right to Know by Edward Willett
- Strange Bedfellows, an anthology about alternative versions of Canadian history.
Can-Con is going to hurt as well. Bundoran has been part of the core support of our little literary SF&F convention here since it re-started. As if anyone's going to cope with the Time of Pandemic unscathed.
At any rate, if there's any kind of good luck that can befall Bundoran between now and the announced October 30th shutdown date, this post is the start of my effort to invoke it. I hope I'm not alone, and I hope it works.
CBC: From Sunday Edition to...?
Jun. 28th, 2020 09:11 amToday is the last edition of The Sunday Edition under that branding with Michael Enright as host. Mr. Enright will be moving on to build something new for the Public Broadcaster.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-june-28-2020-1.5624927
After today, the series will rebrand with Piya Chattopadhyay as its host effective next weekend. She's been training up for this for over a decade, and now I think she'll really get to put all her skills and experience to work for however many years.
Twenty years...
(Meanwhile, I'm getting some laundry done here as I listen.)
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-june-28-2020-1.5624927
After today, the series will rebrand with Piya Chattopadhyay as its host effective next weekend. She's been training up for this for over a decade, and now I think she'll really get to put all her skills and experience to work for however many years.
Twenty years...
(Meanwhile, I'm getting some laundry done here as I listen.)
I wonder.
https://www.canadalandshow.com/political-donations-made-by-new-torstar-owners/
How long before the creeping editorial changes start happening?
https://www.canadalandshow.com/political-donations-made-by-new-torstar-owners/
How long before the creeping editorial changes start happening?
CBC: Change at the Sunday Edition
May. 24th, 2020 11:59 amMichael Enright just announced that he's stepping down as host of The Sunday Edition to close out this week's edition. Resignation to take effect in five weeks. The series will continue with a new host - as it should, since Enright is not the first host the series ever had - and Enright will continue in other work with and for CBC Radio.
I am still surprised. And, yet, not surprised. Pandemic or not, this change would have happened eventually anyway.
Twenty years...
I am still surprised. And, yet, not surprised. Pandemic or not, this change would have happened eventually anyway.
Twenty years...
Good morning!
In case anyone's interested, there's a couple of online boards that I'm keeping an eye on because jobs in the Canadian media business:
- Jeff Gaulin's Job Board,hosted by Gaulin Media
- Media Job Search Canada
Hoping that these are of help to anyone reading this!
In case anyone's interested, there's a couple of online boards that I'm keeping an eye on because jobs in the Canadian media business:
- Jeff Gaulin's Job Board,hosted by Gaulin Media
- Media Job Search Canada
Hoping that these are of help to anyone reading this!
CBC: News boss Jennifer McGuire leaving
Feb. 27th, 2020 03:28 pmDetails here:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-mcguire-leaving-1.5478034
I must admit to some surprise at this news. Opinions, anyone?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-mcguire-leaving-1.5478034
I must admit to some surprise at this news. Opinions, anyone?
This is a multi-purpose posting.
1) To promote myself as a writer, and show that I've done work that draws attention.
2) That I am still seeking to build expertise in Ottawa-Gatineau history.
3) To promote Spacing Media as a news/cultural/historical affairs organization. Matthew Blackett's team are doing good work, with or without my contributions, and I'd like to see that work continue and expand. I hope that if you're not already reading their blogs and hardcopy magazine, that you'll start as a result of this.
More on other stuff later in the day...
1) To promote myself as a writer, and show that I've done work that draws attention.
2) That I am still seeking to build expertise in Ottawa-Gatineau history.
3) To promote Spacing Media as a news/cultural/historical affairs organization. Matthew Blackett's team are doing good work, with or without my contributions, and I'd like to see that work continue and expand. I hope that if you're not already reading their blogs and hardcopy magazine, that you'll start as a result of this.
More on other stuff later in the day...
MEDIA/CANADA: Michael de Adder
Dec. 31st, 2019 02:31 pmYou might have heard of Mr. de Adder. He's the cartoonist who got blacklisted by every major newspaper in New Brunswick because every major newspaper in New Brunswick is owned by the Irving family oligarchy and they're falling in with the Trump.
Anyway, the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting decided to throw in with de Adder as a consequence of that. Here's their opinion of his best work for this year.
Guessing that he's not a fan of Facebook either, although it does help some of his fans connect with him.
Anyway, the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting decided to throw in with de Adder as a consequence of that. Here's their opinion of his best work for this year.
Guessing that he's not a fan of Facebook either, although it does help some of his fans connect with him.
From 2009: Market Mall Tower Mast
Jan. 20th, 2019 02:47 pm
The Market Mall used to actually be a shopping mall with a Pizza Hut, a fitness centre, a sheet music shop and a few other things in its two-story-tall confines. Then it got sold off to a company looking to house four of its radio stations. After that, our local CTV affiliate CJOH got added in when their studios at Clyde and Merivale burnt down. (We're not supposed to call it "CJOH" anymore, but never mind that.)
This is part of the antenna farm that got installed when the radio stations moved in.
