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1. Newspaper Coverage of Early Professional Ice Hockey: the discourses of class and control.

Author

MASON, DANIEL S. and DUQUETTE, GREGORY H.

Subjects
*NEWSPAPERS, *MASS media, *HOCKEY teams, *SPORTS teams, *NEWSPAPER publishing
Abstract

This paper explores the manner through which the International Hockey League (IHL) and its operations were portrayed in newspaper coverage in the larger urban centers of eastern Canada, where hockey had its developmental and organizational roots within the middle- and upper-middle-class community, and compares it to coverage that appeared in newspapers in the communities that hosted IHL teams, which were communities driven by industry and had large working-class populations. To do so, a comparison of newspaper coverage of the IHL in local IHL newspapers with reports published in newspapers in major Canadian cities strongly associated with the origins, development, and organizational control of ice hockey, is undertaken. The development of the sport of ice hockey in both Canada and the USA, and newspaper coverage generally, and hockey specifically, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is reviewed. Representative examples of the coverage of IHL games and operations over the course of its three-year operations are then provided. Having compared the coverage of games and operations of the IHL between IHL and Canadian-based newspapers, the paper concludes with a discussion of how business competition, competing ideologies toward high-level sport, and class-based perceptions regarding violence, aggression, and masculinity can affect the newspaper coverage of sporting events.

Published
2004
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2. Southamizing the Whig.

Author

Swift, Jamie

Subjects
*NEWSPAPER publishing, *NEWSPAPERS
Abstract

Focuses on the management of the Canadian newspaper the `Whig Standard.' Restructuring of editorial and reporting staff; Implication of acquisition by Southam Newspaper Group from owner Michael Davies; Reputation of independent news writing; Supplements; Southam top management; Relaunching as a morning paper; Comments by former Whig Standard editor David Barber. INSETS: Harrowing tales..;One view fits all. (book reviews from readers).;Vox populi? (response of media unions)..

Published
1994

3. 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