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1. THE VIEW FROM HERE.

Author

Gasher, Mike

Subjects
*JOURNALISM research, *NEWSPAPERS, *GEOGRAPHY, *INTERNET
Abstract

This paper posits journalists as cartographers who, through their reporting, produce a news geography which maps the world and sketches the contours and connections of their communities within that world. Employing a methodology adapted to the analysis of newspaper sites on the World Wide Web, this paper reports on an intensive news-flow study of the on-line editions of Canada's three national newspapers - the Globe and Mail, the National Post and Le Devoir - to determine whether these newspapers are taking advantage of the Internet's technological capacity to expand their news geographies beyond conventional borders. We argue that not only do these newspapers portray a highly circumscribed world, but they fail to exploit fully even the national space of Canada, thus reinforcing the conventional news value of proximity - physical, cultural or emotional closeness - as a strongly determinant factor in mapping their news worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007
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2. Increasing circulation? a comparative news-flow study of the Montreal Gazette 's hard-copy and on-line editions.

Author

Gasher, Mike and Gabriele, Sandra

Subjects
*PERIODICALS, *NEWSPAPERS, *ELECTRONIC publications, *ONLINE journalism, *DIGITAL media, *JOURNALISM
Abstract

International news-flow research has repeatedly identified significant imbalances in the global exchange of news among regions of the world. With the emergence of thousands of news sites on the World Wide Web, and the corresponding ability of news audiences to access these sites, the Internet offers the technological capacity to globalize media content. This paper seeks to test that possibility by exploring the way one Canadian daily newspaper, the Montreal Gazette , occupies the geography of the Internet with its on-line news operation. The paper reports on an exploratory comparative news-flow study of the Gazette 's hard-copy and on-line editions to determine whether on-line publishing has prompted the Gazette to alter the boundaries of its news coverage. While the paper concludes that, indeed, the Gazette 's website consistently carried far more international news items than its hard-copy edition, it also notes that this distinction is largely explained by the website's very heavy reliance on wire-service copy and its emphasis on sports news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2004
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3. A History of Suicide Reporting in Canadian Newspapers, 1844-1990.

Author

Richardson, Gemma

Subjects
*SUICIDE, *NEWSPAPERS, *HISTORY of communication, *PRINT culture, *JOURNALISM
Abstract

This paper explores Canadian reporting on suicide and the ways it changed over 150 years. Archival research on the reporting practices of two long-standing newspapers presented here shows that suicide was not always taboo in the media. In fact, the silencing and tip-toeing around reporting on suicide only began in the mid-twentieth century. Early newspaper accounts frequently included reports on suicides, both local and far removed, including details on the exact manner of death. As public perceptions of suicide, and the laws surrounding it, gradually shifted from considering the act a crime to an aspect of psychiatric malady, reporting on suicide changed. Once suicide became an untouchable subject in newsrooms the stigma became entrenched, making it hard to address in any meaningful way for decades [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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4. Why the daily papers `pick up the rear' rather than set the national agenda.

Author

Byfield, Ted

Subjects
*JOURNALISM, *NEWSPAPERS
Abstract

Opinion. Investigates the failure of daily newspapers in Canada to take the forefront in news gathering and agenda setting. Possible causes for the poor performance of newspapers, including the rise of the electronic media and the focus on journalistic objectivity; Reference to a story related in the book `Alberta Was My Beat: Memoirs of a Western Newspaperman,' by Fred Kennedy.

Published
1997

5. Pipped at the Post, fiscal realities intrude.

Subjects
*NEWSPAPERS, *JOURNALISTS, *JOURNALISM, *NEWSPAPER publishing, *REPORTERS & reporting
Abstract

The changes have been anything but conservative at Canada's unabashedly right-wing national daily. After months of speculation that CanWest Global Communications Corp. was set to fold its perennially money-losing National Post, the paper was granted a reprieve. Ken Whyte, editor-in-chief, and Martin Newland, his deputy--the duo behind the Post's cheeky mixture of agenda-driven news, pointed commentary and unapologetic fluff, have left to pursue unspecified "opportunities." Leonard Asper, CanWest chief executive, announced a three-year plan to make the paper profitable and appointed his older brother David to oversee the flagship. Matthew Fraser, a media commentator and journalism professor with no previous management experience, was named editor-in-chief. More and more Post reporters have been showing up on TV screens, and the content of the chain's daily papers across the country has become increasingly standardized--a trend that seems sure to intensify as the company struggles to get out from under a $3.6-billion debt load.

Published
2003

6. Ya win some, ya lose some.

Author

Steele, W. Scott

Subjects
*NEWSPAPERS, *JOURNALISM
Abstract

Comments on the sale of Canada's 'National Post' newspaper by founder Conrad Black. Opinion that, through the paper, Black did a service to Canadian journalism; Speculation regarding the future of the paper under liberal owners.

Published
2001

7. NORTHERN EXPOSURE.

Author

Butler, Kiera

Subjects
*NEWSPAPERS, *PERIODICALS, *GLOBAL warming, *AIR pollution, *ENVIRONMENTAL degradation, *GREENHOUSE effect, *JOURNALISM, *AMERICAN air bases
Abstract

This article focuses on Nunatsiaq News, an English-Inuktitut bilingual weekly that serves the province of Nunavut and northern Quebec, which has moved beyond the debate over the urgency of global warming searching out stories that give readers a sense of why their homeland is changing and what the future might bring, as of March 2006. The paper's offices are in Iqaluit, Nunavut's capital city, which was built on a former U.S. Air Force base in the shadows of the low hills on the southern tip of Baffin Island, about 1,300 miles north of Ottawa. Jim Bell, editor-in-chief of Nunatsiaq, said they do not have to tell the story of the hunter who has trouble hunting because of the thin ice, their readers already know that. But what their readers want to know is the scientific projections of where the Arctic is going to be fifty years from now.

Published
2006

8. The first casualty of political war.

Author

Cosh, Colby

Subjects
*PHYSICIANS, *NEWSPAPERS, *JOURNALISM, *SMOG
Abstract

Presents the opinion that the Kyoto accord will not reduce deaths from smog-related illnesses in Canada. Newspaper headlines which asserted that physicians claimed the treaty would reduce illness; Role of Dr. David Suzuki in promoting the treaty; Way that a newspaper reader discovered the false statement in the paper.

Published
2002

9. The first 'swing to the right' has already occurred, and the next is on the way.

Author

Bunner, Paul

Subjects
*JOURNALISM, *CONSERVATISM, *JOURNALISTS, *NEWSPAPERS
Abstract

Discusses the nature of and relationship between politics and newspapers in Canada. Annual national conference of the Canadian Association of Journalists; Shift among print media staff towards conservatism; Conrad Black, who has complete control of the Southam papers; Significance of Black's 'National Post' which was founded in 1998; Why there has been a lessening of forbidden topics.

Published
2000