- Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Alternative media
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Media (newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc.) which are alternatives to the business or government-owned mass media.
- Alternative Media
Introduction to the November 27, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
It's no wonder that the mainstream media are widely distrusted, and even held in contempt, by many people. They are seen, rightly, as part of the neoliberal system people are increasingly rejecting. On the other hand, the Internet has made it possible to launch a vast number of alternative media projects.
- And Then They Came For Me
Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
- Black Ink and the New Red Power: Native American Newspapers and Tribal Sovereignty
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- Canadian Newspaper Ownership in the Era of Convergence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An academic text aimed at scholars and students.
- The Canadian Public Relations Society, Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it's not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
- Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
- The Cultural Industries in Canada
Problems, Policies and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
- The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian
A Thought Police for the Internet Age
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Guardian includes some fine reporting and occasionally insightful commentary. Possibly because it is farther from the heart of empire, it is able to provide a partial antidote to the craven coverage of the corporate-owned media in the US. Nonetheless, it would be unwise to believe that the Guardian is therefore a free market in progressive or dissident ideas on the left. In fact, quite the contrary: the paper strictly polices what can be said and who can say it in its pages, for cynical reasons we shall come to.
- Don't forget to write
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
- Don't Forget to Write
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
- Double Fold
Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries' "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of irreplacable bound originals including 19th-century illustrated dailies. He chronicles the attempts to find ways of preserving books from both the ravages of time and the librairies' lack of shelf space. He also explains how librairies use the spectre of disintegrating books as part of their fundraising stategy. Baker offers aternative solutions to these problems. His ultimate and pesuasive plea is for librairies to stop "executing" the originals.
- Double Fold (Wikipedia article about the book by Nicholson Baker)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a non-fiction book by Nicholson Baker that was published in April, 2001.
- Focus on Newspaper Printing at World Publishing Expo
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is offering a series of short conferences at the World Publishing Expo to help participants maximize the value of their printing operations.
- The Form of News
A History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
A history of newspaper design in the USA, the ways of writing, how papers are organized, presentation values of typography, space and pictures, and the impact of changing technology
- From Politics to Profit
The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
- Getting the Whole Story
Reporting and Writing the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- Green Isle in the Sea; an informal history of the alternative press.
An Informal History of the Alternative Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Hanging On: Native media are surviving
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
Native media are struggling to survice.
- Have new social media made 'traditional' media obsolete?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
New media provide additional channels for getting messages out, but they don't make older media obsolete. The task is of public relations is to reach people through the media they use. In an increasingly diverse and fragmented world, that means using as many different channels of communication as possible.
- A History of News
From the Drum to the Satellite
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- How to do Leaflets, Newsletters and Newspapers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
- IFJ Condemns Bleak Manifesto of Newspaper Publishers in Face of Crisis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns a call from newspaper publishers for more job losses in journalism across the globe.
- An Illustrated Guide to Newspapers in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
- In The News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
- In the News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada - 2nd Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
An introduction of media relations in Canada, from both a practical and philosophical approach.
- International Multimedia News Lab Launched in Prague
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Representatives of World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and PPF Group have launched the International Multimedia News Lab in Prague. The training and educational centre, combined with the editorial house is called FUTUROOM - newsroom of the future.
- Islamic Peril
Media And Global Violence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Journalism of Outrage
Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Examines the myths and misconceptions of investigative journalism and presents empirical research to support a model that challenges the classical theory.
- Journalism: Truth or Dare?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
- A labour newspaper: Pipe dream or possibility?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Discusses the possibility of Canada's labour movement having its own newspaper. Support for the project from union leaders; concerns about the expense and resource requirements of an independent labour newspaper.
- Loaves and Fishes
The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement
Resource Type: Book
- Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
- Media Names & Numbers
Your Connection to the Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2009
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
- MediaSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
- Mobile and Emerging Platforms Are Focus of World Newspaper Congress
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Paid content and all access strategies have proven that readers will pay for digital access, but what do they get for their money? Publishers are going to need more sophisticated strategies to maintain digital growth.
- The Monthly Epic
A History of Canadian Magazines
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Moving 750 million pages of print archive to a new home
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
For 82 years, researchers have made the journey to Colindale in north London, the home of the British Newspaper Library, a vast collection of almost every British newspaper published in the last 300 years. Across six floors and 50 kilometres of shelving sit not only the well-known national papers, but also a vast collection of now obscure regional titles.
- Native advertising: What is it, and why now?
Call it a breakthrough or sellout, native advertising has ushered in a new era of customer-centric advertising defined by unlimited bandwidt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Native advertising is the act of placing ads in the middle of an article. It has become far more common these days. This article outlines why.
- New Website for International Association of Sports Newspapers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The International Association of Sports Newspapers (IASN) has launched a new website, www.press-iasn.org, to highlight its work in the promotion of the interests and freedom of the sports press.
- News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
- Newspaper
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
- Newspaper revenue experiment throwdown: Crowdfunding versus underwriting
Crowdfunded beats might not work, but there are good reasons for newspapers to give them a try
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Article weighing the pros and cons of acquiring funding through crowdfunding versus underwiting for newspapers.
- Newspapers and the Workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1916
The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.
- Newspapers in Canada versus USA
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Newspapers Canada has released a one-page Fact Sheet outlining some of the key differences between the Canadian and U.S. markets.
- No longer a real newspaper, new Globe betrays Canadians
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The new tarted-up, glossy, colour Globe and Mail is many things, but it is not a real “news paper.”
- The Organizer's Manual
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defense. Strategies for organizing high schools, universities, racial groups, women, the military, labor, the professions.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
Conflict of interest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
- Postmedia and Torstar deal results in "largest closure of newspapers on single day in Canadian History
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned by the deal between Canada's two largest newspaper publishers, Postmedia and Torstar, which have decided to swap more than forty local newspapers with each other, and subsequently shut down most of these newly acquired newspapers in regions where they compete with other existing publications.
- Problems of Everyday Life
And Other Writings On Culture & Science
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
The focus of this book is the impact of the Russian Revolution of the culture life of the country -- and conversely, the effect of the country's cultural backwardness on the course of the revolution. Among the topics discussed are religion, communications media, language, education, science, industry, cinema, marriage, the position of women, child care, "proletarian" literature, art, philoosphy, primitive rural conditions, the dangers of overspecialization and bureaucracy.
- Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
Resource Type: Article
A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
- Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
- Red Menace #4
Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Sources Newsstand
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
- Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
- Strategies for digital realities showcased at International Newsroom Summit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
World Editors Forum is teaming up with Online News Association for 13th International Newsroom Summit in Amsterdam in October, which will focus on synchronizing print and digital cultures to ensure growth in audience, engagement and loyalty
- Tabloids do not represent the working class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
It should come as little surprise that media owned and run by unscrupulous billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond should be more concerned with protecting the party of big business than it is with the wellbeing or interests of working class people. We need to call out the tabloid media for what it is – run by and for the elites.
- Uncovering the Sixties
Life and Times of the Undergound Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
- Underground Times
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
- Which is more important - what to sell or where to sell it?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Recent research sought to determine which variable determined the greatest circulation results: frequency, zip code, or offer price.
- World News, International Newspapers Online, International News
Resource Type: Website
A selection of links to the world's major Newspapers, News Services and Broadcasters with high level standards--international recognized and observed by millions of people around the world.
- The Yellow Journal
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
An independent non-profit newspaper for the people of Metropolitan Toronto funded by the Opportunities for Youth Program in 1974.
- Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
- Zeitung
Unser täglicher Hausgast
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1938
- Barrie Zwicker
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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