In Postmedia Newspapers, HRC Argues Long-Term Peace Between Palestinians & Israelis Will Never Be Achieved Until Hamas Is Defeated honestreporting.ca/in-the-intel...

Save the Wyoming 8 #newspapers wyofile.com/longtime-wyo...

she solicited the comment with her post . . . now she has courageously blocked me from responding

NP: Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Tuesday he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act #C18 nationalpost.com/news/politic...

Rupert Murdoch's New York Post plans to launch a California Post in LA . . . it will look and feel similar to its NY counterpart, delivering journalism, entertainment and celebrity gossip, sports news, local news and opinion with an edgy voice #newspapers www.axios.com/2025/08/04/n...

"After a scorched-earth lobbying campaign, the DoJ walked back its own lawsuit blocking a $14 billion tech megamerger pursued by tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise just weeks before the case was set to go to trial." jacobin.com/2025/08/big-...

"The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley" www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is making so much money that it has authorized a new US$1 billion Stock Repurchase Program and it intends to accelerate the pace of its buyback newscorp.com/2025/07/15/n...

Straight Arrow News has more than doubled its audience by showing which news stories make the cut, which ones don't and why www.journalism.co.uk/news/-why-di...

the Hearst chain has bought the Dallas Morning News for $75 million to add to its dailies in Houston, San Antonio and Austin . . . Hearst bought the Austin American-Statesman for an estimated $70 million in February #newspapers www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Generative AI assisted in the writing of an article in The Hub today, it notes at the end . . . could that explain this whopper? "Readers recognize when [media] outlets use their platforms to advance their own self-interests rather than the public interest." thehub.ca/2025/07/03/r...

Andrew Coyne's list of complaints about our system of federal government adds up to less of a mountain than a series of molehills that fails to support his dire warning that "the very notion of Canadians as a self-governing people is dissolving before our eyes" canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

The Hub's feature today "It’s time to end the boom-and-bust cycle of Canadian shipbuilding" was made possible by Irving Shipbuilding because of course it was #cdnmedia thehub.ca/2025/06/26/d...

the Texas chapter of non-profit journalism funder Press Forward will focus its efforts on rural and local news in that state's South-Central area, where news deserts are rampant www.poynter.org/business-wor...

it must be like a dream come true for bank executives to place their own commentaries in our subsidized news media . . . I wonder if RBC or Mr. Stackhouse would care to disclose how much this cost them #cdnmedia thehub.ca/podcast/audi...

the Halifax Examiner, which practices radical transparency by posting its annual financials online, rebounded to a profit of $32k last year from a loss of $21k in 2023, thanks largely to an increase of $19k in donations #cdnmedia www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Four local journalists have joined forces with Unifor and the Union Cooperative Initiative to launch a Save Our Local News campaign aimed at creating a reliable news publication in the Vancouver suburbs of New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities #cdnmedia www.unifor.org/news/all-new...

The Ditch Weekly is a newspaper about Montauk, Long Island that is written and edited by locals ages 13 to 17 (free gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/s...

The Hub's mass emailing today admits that its Deep Dive is sponsored by Financial Planners Canada, yet the article online acknowledges FP Canada . . . is that because it is trying to disguise the source behind this paid content? thehub.ca/2025/05/29/d...

Bell made a 2024 profit of $10.6 billion, which was more than the GDP of many countries, at a profit margin of 43.3% . . . Rogers made $9.6 billion at a margin of 46.7% . . . but sure, go ahead and bail them out #cdnmedia www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/05/27/c...

a report titled "Universities versus the public" by the conservative Macdonald-Laurier Institute claims that "there’s growing public frustration over the blatant left-wing bias and politicization of our post-secondary institutions" in Canada macdonaldlaurier.ca/canada-at-a-...

Conservative media are grasping at straws to claim Liberal bias in news coverage Right-wing media are getting desperate for any evidence to prove the Tories’ election loss was the result of Liberal media bias #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

30 TVA layoffs in its television division bring its total elimination of jobs since 2023 to 650, or half of its workforce #cdnmedia broadcastdialogue.com/quebecors-tv...

a 2017 amendment in Alberta allowed municipalities to place public notices on social media and websites rather than in newspapers . . . publishers say they’ve seen a once stable revenue stream evaporate as a result and 30 community newspapers close theijf.org/advertising-...

ouch . . . the Chicago Sun-Times ran a special section on Sunday that licensed content from Hearst's King Features, including a summer reading list created using AI . . . unfortunately, it recommended books that do not exist #newspapers chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...

Peter Menzies is grasping at straws now . . . the Winnipeg Free Press is owned by a publicly-traded company which must alert investors to possible financial headwinds . . . including political uncertainty in its latest warning, he argues, shows favoritism thehub.ca/2025/05/20/p...

Richard Stursberg writes in the Globe that the CRTC has let U.S. streamers "operate unhindered. They remain completely unregulated, bearing none of the burdens of the Canadian-owned broadcasters to provide Canadian news and entertainment." #cdnmedia www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Alberta Views has devoted its May issue to the question of whether Canada should subsidize its news media . . . my contribution voices a minority position in the affirmative #cdnmedia albertaviews.ca

Swiss newspaper chain Ringier reports record annual profits up 12.6% . . . its profit margin was 14.8% www.ringier.com/successful-f...

bad news for non-profit journalism www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/nati...

Bell made $10.5 billion in profit last year by charging us through the nose for telecom services like phones and Internet access theindependent.ca/news/lji/bel...

Like most subjects, Canada’s ongoing trade dispute with the United States is best understood with the benefit of historical insight, which Laurent Carbonneau provides in abundance in his book At The Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada’s Corporate Welfare Bums. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Teen Vogue gives the lowdown on police propaganda a/k/a "copaganda" www.teenvogue.com/story/copaga...

Oregon legislators will vote Monday on their Journalism Protection Act, which like Canada's Online News Act seeks to force digital platforms to pay publishers for linking to news stories . . . it is called here a "Stone-Age Approach to Save Journalism" truthonthemarket.com/2025/05/01/o...

Canada has slipped again in the World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters sans frontières (to which I am a respondent) . . . we fell on all indicators, ie. economic, political, social, etc. . . . from 14th in the world last year, we now sit 21st #cdnmedia rsf.org/en/country/c...

of the $22.2 million in Google funding distributed to #cdnmedia so far in 2025, U.S. hedge fund owned Postmedia Network received $4,268,319.33, or more than double the next largest recipient, the Canadian-owned Globe and Mail, which got $2,062,409.41 cjc-ccj.ca/en/

Trump's assault on press freedom in the U.S. follows the blueprint of the highly successful program of media repression pioneered by a leading European authoritarian leader theconversation.com/trumps-first...

an interview I did recently with Pacifica Radio's Media & Democracy program will be broadcast on its network of more than 200 community radio stations next week, but the video and a written summary have now been posted on Wikiversity en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Canadia...

“an incredibly dense but approachable write up on modernized and constantly shifting media. It seems we are indeed in big trouble . . . it’s difficult to find news content you can trust” #cdnmedia thebcreview.ca/2025/04/26/2...

How the Online News Act came back to haunt the federal election Meta’s ban on posting links to real news has allowed hyper-partisan misinformation and disinformation to flourish #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

An FT analysis of more than 350,000 election posts on X "revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney." #cdnmedia www.ft.com/content/743c...

"In truth, J.D. Vance’s best friend really doesn’t want anyone to know he’s J.D. Vance’s best friend — not now that he’s running for Canadian parliament" #cdnmedia www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“bot-like” social media accounts targeted Liberal Leader Mark Carney in the lead-up to the federal election, according to an analysis . . . disinformation represent a “threat to Canada’s democracy and risk influencing the upcoming federal election” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...

"The Globe and Mail Foundation will seek to raise funding that will be used to hold events, create training programs and carry out research. It aims to ensure that Canadians continue to have access to quality journalism, and to strengthen public trust in media." nmc-mic.ca/2025/04/24/t...

I will be interviewing tomorrow with Radioactive, a locally produced program where activist groups in the Kansas City area present interviews, commentary, editorials, and other thought provoking content on a weekly basis. Here is their promo. kkfi.org/program-epis...

"Travel expenses for The Hub’s election coverage are made possible by the Public Policy Forum, the Rideau Hall Foundation, and the Michener Awards Foundation." thehub.ca/2025/04/23/i...

the Conservative election platform released today promises to introduce a Freedom of Speech Act to repeal Liberal "censorship laws" and restore Canadian news on Meta and other platforms #cdnmedia www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/04/22/c...

Paris-based press freedom watchdog Reporters sans frontières (RSF) is calling on federal candidates to make specific commitments to the long-term sustainability of quality, independent journalism #cdnmedia rsf.org/en/canada-rs...

NY Times: As Election Nears, Canadians Confront a News Void on Facebook and Instagram After Meta blocked news from its platforms in Canada, hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing Facebook pages such as Canada Proud has filled the gap #cdnmedia www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/t...

Rebel News again proves that it’s not doing journalism If Ezra Levant wants to play politics, he should do so as a politician and see how well his extreme views go over with voters #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...