As a former journalist, I hate this trend, but as someone who teaches clients how to interact with the media, I have an obligation not to ignore it.
All in Writing and journalism
About that Matthew Raymond verdict
There’s a constant in communications – emotion beats facts ten times out of ten. In other words, if you are arguing facts and the other side is arguing emotion, you will not win. There’s that. Then there is social media, which, for too many people means no measure of restraint or decency.
wtf CBC?
Were they sitting around strategizing about how to best handle this major story and someone said “I know, we’ll close down the local supper hour news shows that our viewers are familiar with, and give them a show coordinated out of Toronto instead”?
Michael de Adder, the Irving Media, and collateral damage
While it (de Adder’s Trump cartoon) wasn’t the trigger for his contract being cancelled, details that have surfaced since have exposed a bigger picture of Brunswick News. And it’s not a pretty one.
Whatever the reason, with de Adder gone, Brunswick News readers lose
It is important social commentary, and the Irving papers will be all the poorer for depriving their readers of it. If Brunswick News was looking to give readers one more reason to cancel their subscriptions, this decision could be it.
Celebrating some exceptional journalism in New Brunswick
it is a tough time for journalism, but kudos for those on the front lines doing the best they can in a difficult situation, and oftentimes, excelling anyway
An idea for American media on the heels of the latest school shooting
We pretty much know American politicians aren't really going to do anything about gun violence in the U.S. so here's sometghing the media can do to force their hand.