Media

ROTHENBURGER – The pandemic will either kill newspapers or save them

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN of the community newspaper industry has a name — COVID-19. Or, the virus might prove to be its salvation. It could go either way. Several [Continue]

MEDIA – TRU student presented with Armchair Mayor Journalism Award

November 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

Congratulations to Aidan Grether, the recipient of the 2019 Armchair Mayor Journalism Award. I had the pleasure of presenting Aidan with the award Thursday evening (Nov. 28, [Continue]

MEDIA – ‘People want truth, but not what the media are giving them’

September 26, 2019 // 1 Comment

By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD Canadians want the truth, but they want the truth about stories the media aren’t giving them, former CBC news anchor [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Canada’s media shouldn’t decide their own bailouts

May 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FEDERAL TAX SUBSIDIES to the media no doubt began with the best of intentions but they promise to end badly. Eight news organizations have [Continue]

KNOX – Well-known B.C. sports writer Jim Taylor was a childhood hero

January 13, 2019 // 1 Comment

“NOBODY WANTS to do funny anymore,” Jim Taylor would say, every time we talked. “They’re all so serious.” I would respond by furrowing my brow and nodding seriously [Continue]

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]

MEDIA – Legacy media is in a zombie state, so why waste public money on it?

December 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

Leave reporting to independent innovators who build the public trust honestly. Any government subsidy surely undermines that trust By PETER MENZIES Contributor, Troy Media A [Continue]

FORSETH – News media must remain free from political interference

November 26, 2018 // 9 Comments

LAST WEEK I received two emails, and coincidentally they were both on the same topic…. the News Media. The first was from Leah who said to me … PLEASE DO A BLOG ON [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]

JOURNALISM – ‘We’re in deep shit’ says veteran broadcaster Keith Morrison

October 30, 2018 // 2 Comments

“We’re in deep shit, folks, we really are.” That’s how veteran Canadian-born broadcaster Keith Morrison assessed the state of journalism as he addressed the annual [Continue]

MEDIA – No news is not good news as newspapers continue to struggle

July 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

Don’t blame the Internet, embrace it as a means to deliver quality reporting to a broader audience By LEE HARDING Research fellow Frontier Centre for Public Policy THE [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Throwing $50 million at newspapers is a waste of money

February 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

The question must be asked, why spend tax money trying to save something the taxpayers don’t want? An Armchairmayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. Tucked away behind [Continue]

MEDIA – The enduring legacy of maverick media baron Jim Shaw

January 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

By PETER MENZIES Contributor, Troy Media Few occasions better illustrated the cultural divide between the world of the western bottom-up entrepreneur and that of Ottawa’s [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]