Death of a newspaperman: a tribute to Geoffrey Stevens

I have yet to meet anyone with a keener eye for politics or a sharper nose for news, but you’d never know it from how lightly he wore his accomplishments.
We must fight to keep integrity and experience at the forefront of journalism

Veteran reporters like Paul Workman, Daniele Hamamdjian, Tom Walters, and Joyce Napier offered something today’s youth need: a trusting face who cares about what’s going on around the world.
Bell Media job cuts, including seasoned Hill journos, spark worries from fellow reporters and editors

In an internal memo, Richard Gray, Bell Media’s vice-president of news, said it needs to significantly adapt to how it delivers news and will move to a single newsroom approach across brands. But some seasoned reporters got the axe.
Nothing funny about this year’s Press Gallery Dinner

The PM skipped a situation where he would not have been able to avoid addressing the most immediate question on everyone’s mind about David Johnston’s resignation.
From Ukraine, with love: Trudeau skips Press Gallery Dinner, Blanchet and Singh launch counteroffensive on humour

The Globe and Mail’s Steven Chase and Robert Fife receive the Charles Lynch Award for their reporting on foreign election interference; the gallery presents giant novelty cheque to fund emerging journalists.
Canadian news is in trouble: we can’t afford to let tech giants make its financial difficulties worse

We fail to understand how there can be any consideration of excluding certain news providers based solely on the underlying industry or the technology in which they have traditionally operated.
‘Great damage to our democratic system’: Senator Woo takes aim at media in wake of foreign election interference report

David Johnston’s report noted that ‘when viewed in full context with all of the relevant intelligence, several leaked materials that raised legitimate questions turn out to have been misconstrued in some media reports.’
Copyright is king in the battle for Canadian content

It is through their ownership of intellectual property that Canadians companies can prosper, grow, and take risks while funding new opportunities.
Canada’s writers need a functioning market, not endless promises

While our inflation rate steadily grew by 27.6 per cent, Canada’s authors were forced to absorb an 80 per cent decline in crucial income. How is anyone expected to survive that kind of fiscal collapse?
For Poilievre, the CBC is a hot-button issue

While many see the public broadcaster as a beloved national institution, for hardcore Canadian conservatives, the CBC is a biased, pro-Liberal, bastion of ‘woke’ leftism, a mortal enemy that must be battled at all costs, and Pierre Poilievre knows this.