This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with Jaime Watt, the executive chairman of Navigator and a Toronto Star columnist, about his new book, What I Wish I Said: Confessions of a Columnist.
The Canadian government will suspend all advertising on Facebook and Instagram, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced on Tuesday.
The federal government’s attempts to become world leaders in rescuing journalism have not only collapsed but pushed the nation’s private sector news industry to the edge of an economic abyss.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses Google’s announcement this week that it will soon stop Canadian news links from appearing in Google News and search results. We also discuss Canada Day and the question of how to celebrate the nation’s birthday when our society feels so fractured and divided.
This episode of In Conversation with Amanda Lang features discussion of the federal government’s new “digital nomad” strategy including its plan to target U.S. visa holders for immigration. Plus, big changes in Canada’s media landscape.
By filling mainstream media with Twitter-level commentary from experts grasping beyond their expertise, journalists are making news reporting increasingly look and sound like social media. This isn’t reporting, it’s narrative building by proxy.
The government’s online news legislation became law this week likely setting off a summer-long staring contest between two tech titans and Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the government’s online news legislation that became law this week. Plus, the tourist submersible that imploded on a dive to visit the wreck of the Titanic this week.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Chuck Klosterman, a best-selling author and journalist, discussing his must-read book, The Nineties. He talks about the intricacies and the extraordinary lasting legacy of the consequential decade.
A Canadian Journalists Fund should be established by statute and sustained by a levy on advertising revenues earned in Canada by companies such as Meta/Facebook, Alphabet/Google, and others. The governance of the fund would be by the industry alone, transparent by law, and fire-walled from the government to ensure the maintenance of public trust.
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