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New strategy for US climate news website: publish less, investigate more
A small independent American news website specializing in climate change issues plans to take a bold gamble in the world of online reporting.
How? By publishing less, doubling its news staff and committing to long, potentially costly, investigations. Read more…
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- Environment
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Are you watching the winter Olympics this year? Read the results of that poll here.
New UBC course takes on representation of Aboriginals in media
A new partnership between the UBC School of Journalism and five First Nations communities in the Lower Mainland aims to correct the omission of, and errors about, Aboriginal people in mainstream media. Read more…
'Humbler' Conrad Black tells Vanity Fair about Mafia, moguls and time in jail
TORONTO - Conrad Black hosed down shower stalls and earned the respect of "Mafia people" during his time in prison and is currently worth about $80 million, the disgraced media baron reveals in a forthcoming interview in Vanity Fair magazine. Read more…
Editor Beers explains success of Tyee 'long form' online journalism
In an interview published August 24, J-Source had Five Questions for David Beers. Here is how he answered one of them, about how long articles can succeed in a medium that encourages brevity. Read more…
Social media track fall of the House of Murdoch
The implosion of Rupert Murdoch's media empire has been closely followed by other media. Here are some links to help Tyee readers keep track of a fast-moving story. Read more…
Reader contributions to Tyee's Election Reporting Fund pass $13,000
With three days to go until the official close of The Tyee's provincial election-related reporting fundraiser, a surge of donations has pushed the total past the $10,000 goal. Read more…
Shaw Communications gives preferential treatment to Shaw movie service
A new online movie service offered by Shaw will be exempt from the typical bandwidth caps the telecom company applies to other internet use--including use of rival video services like Netflix. Read more…
CRTC looks at how telephone, cable companies charge independent Internet providers
Canada's big telecom players are back in front of the country's broadcast regulator today to talk about usage-based Internet billing. Read more…
CTV bureau chief quits job, blasts network news
"On a weekend where there was real news happening in Bangkok, Misrata, Athens, Washington, and around the world, what we saw instead was a breathless gaggle of normally credible journalists, gushing in live hit after live hit about how the prince is young and his wife is pretty," writes former CTV bureau chief Kai Nagata in a scathing blog post explaining his departure. Read more…
Bell penalized $10 million for false advertising
Bell Canada has agreed to pay a $10 million administrative penalty for advertisements that the Competition Bureau says misled consumers over telecommunication service prices. Read more…
Debating HST inside the left: CCPA's Klein versus SFU's Pendakur
Does being progressive mean opposing the HST? Krishna Pendakur, an SFU professor of economics whose web page says he supports "old lefty" principles, believes people with his politics "should love" the HST. But his opinion piece making that argument has drawn a rebutting online comment from Seth Klein, director of the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Read more…
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Video shows riot 'kissing couple' mowed down by police
A video circulating the internet and found by The Tyee on Alternet shows the moments leading up to the famous photo of Scott Jones and Alexa Thomas, widely assumed to have been kissing in the picture amidst the June 15 melee in downtown Vancouver. Read more…
BC Ferries spent $2 million on Olympic ship wrap project
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. spent $2 million on a promotion that included wrapping new vessels in Olympic logos, a project a spokesperson says was good value for the boost it gave BC Ferries and provincial tourism. Read more…
PR campaign gushes goodness about Vancouver after Stanley Cup riot
Tourism Vancouver is hoping to polish the city's tarnished reputation following the violent riot that erupted after the Stanley Cup final. Read more…
Media mulls post-defeat riot
Two days after the riot, news reporters and columnists are still struggling to make sense of what happened on Wednesday. Read more…
BC First Nations aren’t dupes of US green movement: Chiefs
First Nations groups oppose Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project because it poses real risks to their territories, five chiefs argue, not because they’re being duped by U.S. environmentalists. Read more…
BC government joins worldwide effort to save the Internet
To help pave the way for a new Internet address system that promises to solve an IP number shortage, the B.C. government joined digital heavy-weights Google, Facebook and Yahoo! and more than 400 other companies and organizations Wednesday to thwart the demise of the web. Read more…
Conrad Black cultivated prison minions
Two prison workers at the jail where Conrad Black spent more than two years say he wasn't the model inmate his defence team paints him to be in a filing to be heard at his resentencing later this month. Read more…
North Vancouver journalist describes her detention in Syria, Iran
North Vancouver journalist Dorothy Parvaz, safely back in Doha, has given an interview on Al Jazeera about her 19-day experience in detention -- first in Syria, then in Iran. Read more…
Province won't follow BC Ferries' lead on FOI responses
The provincial government has no plans to begin handling freedom of information requests the way BC Ferries does, the minister responsible said following a report today from the Information and Privacy Commissioner. Read more…
