The News Biz

ROTHENBURGER – There will never be another like Angelo Iacobucci

December 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

ANGELO IACOBUCCI was good column fodder. I once wrote about watching in amazement as he sat in City council chambers during a meeting and ate French fries and clipped his toe [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – News media need a new business model, not handouts

November 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE NEWS MEDIA are about to get help from the taxpayer — it’s help they neither deserve nor need. Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau this week announced $600 million [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Will changes at Kamloops This Week prove to be winning formula?

December 1, 2017 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A SCANT four days after a massive swap-and-shutdown of daily and community papers by Canadian media giants Torstar and [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The horse-and-buggy days of the news media are over

November 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

ANY TIME there’s a tremor in a local media outlet, it rattles news junkies. Kamloops is full of news junkies. We worry about where our news is coming from. According to a [Continue]

MEDIA – Milewski’s answer to fake news: Buy a newspaper, hug a reporter

September 27, 2017 // 1 Comment

By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD Canadians need to start subscribing to newspapers again, support local news and hug a CBC reporter if they don’t want [Continue]

MEDIA – Community newspapers feel the pressure of staffing shortages

April 16, 2017 // 2 Comments

Editor’s note: The names of the editors quoted below have been changed and their publications not identified in order to protect them. By JOHN STEWART Troy Media LOCAL [Continue]

THE MEDIA – Community papers survive by staying true to their roots

April 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

IN THE MANY thousands of words that have been written about the collapse of Canadian daily newspapers, there is a parallel good news story that has been untold. There are [Continue]

ONE MILLION! – ArmchairMayor.ca website approaches a big milestone

March 11, 2017 // 4 Comments

ONE MILLION is such a nice, round number. As of today, ArmchairMayor.ca has attracted more than 955,000 views since its inception in 2008. It won’t be long before we hit [Continue]

THE MEDIA – Trump is wrong; the news media is #NotTheEnemy

February 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

By SHAUNA SNOW-CAPPARELLI Associate professor of journalism Mount Royal University IT WAS a swift, and effective blow that struck at the heart of the very belief system and [Continue]

Thanks to all who helped create new Journalism bursary

December 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

I had the pleasure of presenting the first Armchair Mayor News Journalism Bursary to Brittany Kapsha at the recent TRU awards day. Brittany is completing her Journalism [Continue]

Big changes in store for Armchair Mayor News as it joins NewsKamloops.com

August 2, 2015 // 10 Comments

Some big changes are coming for The Armchair Mayor News. This coming week, the blog will merge with a new website called NewsKamloops.com, an online newspaper I’m [Continue]

ROGERS — Newspaper errors have a way of living on for eternity

March 15, 2015 // 1 Comment

Mark Rogers writes a column about social media and hosts a blog at http://www.newsonaut.com. COLUMN — A newspaper mistake briefly made the rounds on Twitter last week — [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER — Don’t believe everything you read

March 7, 2015 // 1 Comment

COLUMN — Don’t believe everything you read in the newspapers. That’s a lesson every one of us has been taught since we were old enough to read. These days, of course, [Continue]

A town without a daily newspaper— it’s less about the news, more about the ritual

February 12, 2015 // 2 Comments

When Daily News shut, it deprived residents of their regular routine, but not of journalism To read this story in the Ryerson Review of Journalism, click here. By AIMEE [Continue]