Category Archives: Media
Just happy to be nominated
Maisonneuve landed ten National Magazine Award nominations yesterday. (Technically, we got eleven, although for some reason the final tally doesn’t include the nods for Best Student Writer.) All the nominations are for work that happened before I started at the … Continue reading
From the Department of Things I Should Have Read 24 Months Ago
So I’m two years behind the times on this one, but for those of you who have never read “Pat Dollard’s War on Hollywood,” do so now, please. I am currently reading The Best American Magazine Writing 2008, and “Pat … Continue reading
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iMedia
The Guardian’s Jemima Kiss has a good post that simultaneously shrugs off the whining about the decline of the traditional news media and dismisses the much-vaunted iTunes solution. Kiss points out that publishers still largely control media content, unlike record … Continue reading
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The future, soon enough
My goodbye to MediaScout, from the MS-Canada Blog: 2:05 pm EDT | Toronto | Drew Nelles reporting: On December 8th, the day MediaScout announced it would soon go on an indefinite hiatus, two other things happened. The administrators of the … Continue reading
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Skimping on substance
From the MS-Canada Blog: Skimping on substance 8:38 pm EDT | Montreal | Drew Nelles reporting: The public editor’s column in today’s New York Times is, unsurprisingly, about the paper’s coverage of the current US presidential election. And it’s not … Continue reading
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The lesser of two endorsements
From the MS-Canada Blog: The lesser of two endorsements 4:45 pm EDT | Montreal | Drew Nelles reporting: It goes without saying that the New Yorker is better than Esquire. One represents the standard against which all other magazine writing … Continue reading
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For sale: one national newspaper
In today’s Globe, Lawrence Martin discusses what the apparently-imminent sale of the National Post would mean both for the paper and the country’s media. What I like best is Martin’s frank acceptance that newspaper ownership shapes content. Not everyone shares … Continue reading
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African energy, European opportunity
An article from Wednesday’s Guardian outlines a European Union proposal that would see vast solar farms in North Africa power all of Europe with clean energy. From the article: The scientists are calling for the creation of a series of … Continue reading
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Boycotts beyond Beijing?
From the latest issue of the New Yorker, on the rise of conservative youth nationalism in China and one man’s take on the proposed boycotts of the Beijing Olympics: “Boycotting the Beijing Games in the name of Tibet seemed as … Continue reading
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So you’ve decided to give up on writing
Blogging, journalism’s younger and boring-er cousin, has never interested me. Even blogs that aren’t confessional-type online diaries hardly seem a step up from LiveJournal. They always have a strange odour of narcissism and desperation; just because you can blog doesnt … Continue reading
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