Just the facts? Don’t count on fact-checkers
Reading Time: 4 minutes A closer look at almost every fact-checking organization shows a great deal of politics and vested…
Media freedom doesn’t come free
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government funding is no magic bullet. Nor are crowdsourced and advertising-supported journalism perfect
Mainstream media glosses over Indigenous issues
Reading Time: 3 minutes Media need time and resources to understand the issues and seek a range of views within…
Troubled Postmedia reports $3-million quarterly loss
Reading Time: 2 minutes Print advertising continued to slide, but the company pointed to an increase in digital revenue of…
Alberta needs the ‘war room’ to challenge energy ignorance
Reading Time: 5 minutes Too many reporters have bought into poorly-conceived advocacy positions and fail to provide readers with balanced…
Donor-supported CBC is a model worth pursuing
Reading Time: 3 minutes CBC has become tediously missionary rather than journalistic. And the last thing Canada’s private media needs…
The man who brought down Alan Eagleson
Reading Time: 5 minutes Russ Conway was an old-school journalist: principled, detail-driven and thorough to a fault. His tenacity paid…
What can – and should – be done about CBC
Reading Time: 3 minutes Get CBC out of the advertising business on all of its platforms. And make its content…