Media Monday Edmonton: Update #58

Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• Congratulations to Marty Forbes and Danny Hooper who were among the many worthy Edmontonians awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal on November 14. “The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal honours Her Majesty’s service to our country. It also honours significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.” Here’s the PSR thread.
• If you watch CTV Morning Live you’ll have noticed they made some changes last week. As mentioned here before, Stacey Brotzel joined the team, but so has Jesse Beyer, a graduate of NAIT who was most recently in Saskatoon. Also, Friday was Melissa Dominelli’s last day.
• There are some good TV stats in this Vancouver Sun article. For the week of November 5-11, the News Hour on Global Edmonton had 135,000 viewers compared to CTV Edmonton’s 96,000. And apparently 184,000 viewers in Edmonton watched the CFL Western semi-final.
• MODCITY Magazine will make its official debut on November 23. You can sign up to get the inaugural copy here. And here’s a sneak peek at the final proofs.
• The Edmonton Sun’s annual SOLD! auction is now open and runs until 9pm on Friday. Over $1.2 million in goods and services are available for bidding and opening bids are set at 50% of the retail value.
• Have you checked out The Wanderer? It launched on July 5, 2012 and is a student-driven online magazine.
• Don’t miss this feature on Mike Winters’ Wonderdick. “Edmonton has its own weird charm, and Mr. Winters admits he misses parts of it.”
• Want to be an intern at the Edmonton Journal this summer? The deadline to apply is December 5.
• WordCamp took place on Friday and Saturday and I think it was a big success! I have more to write later, but for now check out Sarah’s recap.
• A belated congratulations to Ryan Jespersen who received the 2nd annual Lynda Steele media award for supporting the fight against domestic violence.
• Mike McGuire is one of the newest faces at Leduc’s The ONE FM. He’s also the new in-game host for the Edmonton Rush. Congrats!
• It seems that Sean Burke was relieved of his duties as the morning man on CISN. He wrote on his Facebook page, “I’m going to be fine…and if I decide to stay in radio, you’ll be the first to find out!”
• Here’s a Relinked column all about the snow. “Over time, any weather stories have diminishing returns, and pretty rapid ones at that…”
• Did anyone catch The Fifth Estate’s episode about Lucy the Elephant?
• GIG CITY has a nice profile on local YouTube rapper Jo Thrillz. “He’s amassed more than 2.8 million views on his YouTube channel…”
• Edmonton’s Mosaic Entertainment has teamed up with Super Channel to create a new comedy series called Tiny Plastic Men. It will air Mondays beginning December 3rd on Super Channel. Check out the website here.
• Scope Printing & Publishing is looking for a reporter slash producer to be based here in Edmonton.
• Quebecor announced last week that it is cutting 500 jobs at Sun Media Corp. and is closing two printing plants. It also plans to expand the use of paywalls.
• The federal government has contributed $354,700 to the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) to support 168 hours of radio programming per week.
• Mashable has an infographic on paywalls.
• I haven’t done an update since the US Election, so I wanted to make sure I mentioned this link: The US election was a wake up call for data illiterate journalists. See also: Nate Silver wins, and data is vindicated.
• It’s that time of year: up! 99.3 and Lite 95.7 both switched to 100% Christmas music on November 17. Once again, up! got the jump on Lite.

You can follow Edmonton media news on Twitter using the hashtag #yegmedia. For a great overview of the global media landscape, check out Mediagazer.

So, what have I missed? What’s new and interesting in the world of Edmonton media? Let me know!

You can see past Media Monday Edmonton entries here.