Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• The University of Alberta launched Folio.ca last week, a new website that “offers news and information in five areas: science and tech, health and wellness, society and culture, business and commentary.” The site is “an additional communication tool for the university” and isn’t meant to replace traditional methods like media relations.
• The summer radio ratings are out, with 102.3 Now! Radio (CKNO-FM) returning to the top spot just ahead of 630 CHED. Here is Broadcast Dialogue’s take on the numbers.
• “Where’s Alberta’s Legislature Press Gallery when you actually need it? Nowhere to be found,” says David Climenhaga in his latest post on the relationship between the media and the government.
• Carole Anne Devaney returned to the anchor desk alongside Gord Steinke on September 5 on Global Edmonton.
• Broadcast Dialogue has a look at the talent lineup for CityNews Edmonton, which started airing its newscasts on September 4.
• Douglas Hildebrand has been named Director and Publisher of the University of Alberta Press, effective October 10, 2017.
• Local writer Tim Querengesser has a Patreon page for Walkcast, “a podcast that goes walking in cities.” Here is Episode 2, which features a discussion with Dr. Darren Markland on the topic of drivers who hit and kill pedestrians. We talked to Dr. Markland back in December for Taproot’s story on how to stop discounting pedestrian deaths.
• Episode 74 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features Sylvia Schneider, “co-host of the Equinely-Inclined podcast for Canada’s horse community, and a pioneer of Alberta podcasting”. She’s been doing it since 2007!
• The Bonnyville Nouvelle is looking for a General Assignment Reporter. The deadline to apply is September 26.
• Linda and Brittney are hosting another Instagrammable Walls of Edmonton Photo Walk on Saturday, September 16. It’s free to attend!
• A follow-up on one of last week’s news items courtesy of Jeff – the new “Life by Design” section you’ll find in the Journal is indeed Postmedia-wide and is most definitely not local.

Helping more Albertans get good jobs, photo by Premier of Alberta

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• From Politico: The Rise of the Twitter Thread, “The compelling, incendiary literary form of the Trump era.”
• With all the hurricane news on TV right now, the debate about dangerous stand-ups is raging. “Some critics wondered whether they are unnecessary and overly sensational spectacles” but others “insist that the visuals from the storms are essential in persuading people to take hurricane threats seriously and getting them to leave the area.” I’m not so sure.
• Plenty of video coverage of Hurricane Irma came not from cable news, but from sites like the Washington Post. They’re staffing up and expanding their video capabilities.
• The Guardian has a feature on The Wall Street Journal’s Trump problem. “Dozens have left the paper in the past year and interviews with current and ex-staffers show outrage over pressure from management to normalize Trump.”

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!

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Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• CityNews Edmonton launched tonight at 6pm. Here is the new website.
• Global Edmonton’s Tim Spelliscy officially retired on Thursday last week after 38 years. Here’s a farewell interview with Nancy Carlson. He was even serenaded by Kevin Dabbs and Gord Steinke!
• Sportsnet’s coverage of the 2017-2018 Oilers season will start on October 4. The broadcast team will include Drew Remenda, who “is a bit of a lightning rod,” writes Kurt Leavins. Here’s more on the reaction fans shared on Twitter from David Staples.
• Tickets are now on sale for The Yards Fall Salon which is taking place on September 21 at CKUA.
• Grant Ainsley wrote about Con Boland’s death and the impact of social media on how such new spreads.
• Jeff offers some commentary on the media’s coverage of the turning lane at Jasper Avenue and 109 Street, saying “it’s a bit of ‘bothsideism’ that equates the issues of people driving and people walking as equal.”
• Great to see that the Edmonton Community Foundation has become a sponsor of the Alberta Podcast Network! The ECF has its own podcast too – The Well-Endowed Podcast.
• I can’t seem to find anything about this online yet, but an insert in the Edmonton Journal this weekend says a new monthly section called “Life by Design” will be launching on September 8. It will feature “curated content from top Canadian magazines” including Chatelaine, Today’s Parent, Flare, and MoneySense, which leads me to believe this is a Postmedia-wide section and will not contain any local content.
• Avenue Edmonton has a feature on Ruth B, the musical success story who was able to convert her large following on social media into offers for record deals.
• The World Press Photo Montreal 2017 Exposition is taking place until October 1 and among those featured is Edmonton’s own Amber Bracken.

Inside the Edmonton Bulletin building at Fort Edmonton Park

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• Marc Edge, author of The News We Deserve: The Transformation of Canada’s Media Landscape, wrote in The Tyee that the “Netflix tax” is a misnomer used to smear a great idea.
• Also in The Tyee, Peter Menzies writes that “an ad-free, better-funded CBC that shares its reporting could help keep local journalism alive” here in Canada.
• ProPublica has created a Facebook Messenger bot to collect stories from readers about hate speech. They hope it might also double as “another form of storytelling.”‘
• Jack Shafer writes in Politico that the op-ed pages in the New York Times have returned to their roots, when “the whole idea was to trigger reader insurrections with outrageous views.”

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!

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Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• Raffy Boudjikanian is making the move from CBC Calgary to CBC Edmonton next week. He tweeted that he’ll “have to work hard to fill the spot vacated” by Briar Stewart.
• Jay Stone will be the new Program Director for up! 99.3 FM here in Edmonton. He was previously at 980 CJME in Regina where his last day will be September 8.
• Local filmmaker Randy Brososky has been selected by TELUS STORYHIVE to receive funding to produce the first six episodes of his “darkly comedic” web series, Necessary Evil. The episodes will be available on TELUS Optik TV On Demand next summer. Congrats Randy!
• The launch party for the fall issue of The Yards will take place on September 21 at CKUA Radio. Save the date!
• Episode 73 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features Jeff MacCallum, “one-half of the team behind two Edmonton podcasts that focus on independent music on the prairies: Cups N Cakes and Inside the Artist’s Studio.”
• CBC Edmonton published a feature on EPS Sgt. David Jones who uses Twitter to “humanize the badge a little bit.”
• Stump Kitchen, a video series about cooking by local Alexis Hillyard, has amassed 221 patrons already on Patreon. Congrats!
• A fire at City Centre Mall on Thursday evening caused an evacuation of the CBC Edmonton newsroom. Staff started to return on Friday after air quality concerns were lifted though power remained limited.
• Rogers Communications is looking for a CHR Imaging Producer here in Edmonton. In case you’re wondering, CHR is contemporary hit radio and the role would be focused largely on Kiss 91.7 FM.
• The latest Edmonton Quotient feature is about Edmonton’s Indigenous Tech Opportunity. The story focuses on Jacquelyn Cardinal, a graduate of the Digital Media Production program at Edmonton Digital Arts College, and her brother Hunter who launched Naheyawin, an Edmonton communications and engagement agency “that is firmly grounded in traditional teachings from their heritage at the Sucker Creek Cree First Nation”.
• Heads up: The Banff Centre is hosting a journalism summit from October 20-22. The Democracy Project: Journalism in the Age of Alt-Facts will “discuss practical next steps in the critical conversation around media and democracy.”
• A reminder that if you’re looking for the latest news about the Municipal Election you should join Taproot!

RCMP Police Dog Services demonstration for media, photo by Premier of Alberta

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• A new monthly print paper called The West End Phoenix is launching in Toronto this fall. “The Phoenix is planning to publish longform profiles and features, investigative stories, and photo essays, along with some of the more traditional elements of local news.”
• Country Music Television (CMT) Canada is going to stop playing music videos as it launches its fall programming and will instead feature “funny, light-hearted comedies.”
• The Tow Center for Digital Journalism has published A Definitive Timeline of Platforms and Publishers. It covers everything from the launch of Google AdWords on October 23, 2000 to now. I wish the entries had hyperlinks to source material.
• Facebook has hired former New York Times public editor Liz Spayd to help manage the company’s transparency efforts. “Spayd’s role will be as an outsider who is inside, one who pushes boundaries at Facebook.”
• Quartz is planning to unveil a suite of Slack-based tools to help create bots that assist journalists. “Quartz is building the tools, which it teased last year, thanks to the $250,000 grant it got from the Knight Foundation in late 2016.”

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!

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You can see past Media Monday Edmonton entries here.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• Daniel Kaszor, a former editor-in-chief at The Gateway who has been at the National Post since 2008, is returning to Edmonton to work at EEDC starting September 11. “I am going to be working with the EEDC as content manager highlighting all of the very cool stuff that’s happening in #yeg,” he tweeted.
• Marty Forbes wrote last week about how technology is changing the world of media. “Things are changing so rapidly it’s literally impossible to catch up as new apps and companies evolve or dissolve in the World Wide Web.”
• Karen Unland was interviewed about the Alberta Podcast Network this week on Northern Nerd Network’s Nerdcast. You can learn more about the network that promotes and supports Alberta-made podcasts here.
• Congratulations to Paula Simons and her husband on their 25th wedding anniversary!
• Looking to support independent local journalism? Edmonton Quotient has an updated list of “Edmonton-focused media organizations where your money creates local stories and conversations.”
• Episode 72 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features Erika Ensign of Verity! “and many, many other podcasts.” Audio was recorded at the July podcasting meetup.
• We’re producing a daily Fringe Festival newsletter at Taproot Edmonton which you can sign up for here. Check out past issues or read on the web here.
• FilmLocal is a community site that launched earlier this summer with a goal of “bringing together filmmakers, clients, and people wanting to break into the industry into a single, one-stop-shop type of community – all with the collective goal of making films.”
• CBC Edmonton is looking for a Senior Producer for TV news.
• Aberdeen Publishing is looking for a Multimedia Features Reporter in Jasper. The deadline to apply is September 1.
• So on Wednesday last week, a bat got into the CBC Edmonton newsroom. It was not a planned guest. After about 30 minutes, the bat, christened #cbcbat by that point, was finally captured. Rival newsrooms poked fun, accusing CBC of one-upsmanship. Can you tell it’s summer?!

Cropping the Truth Panel on Fake News

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• Ezra Levant was interviewed by Ryan Jespersen today about The Rebel’s coverage of the events in Charlottesville. Levant had sent a memo to staff about the alt-right rally. “Also Monday, Rebel Media co-founder Brian Lilley announced he had parted ways with the group, concerned with its increasingly harsh tone on issues like immigration and Islam.” There’s more on the news at CBC and daveberta.
• Here’s Jeff Jarvis on how he’d try to save a newspaper if he ran one. “Rather than merely creating a product called content and attracting an audience to sell to advertisers — our old model — we can now reconceive of journalism as a service to our communities, convening them into informed, civil, and productive conversation and helping them improve their lives. Nothing less.”
• TuneIn Inc. has raised $50 million to fund its growth at a valuation of about $500 million. TuneIn was founded in 2002 and “offers thousands of radio stations on demand for free to more than 75 million users.”
• Postmedia is selling its west-end Toronto printing plant for $30.5 million to help pay down its debt.
• Netflix has lured Shonda Rhimes way from ABC Studios and has signed her to a multi-year production deal. Last week, Disney announced it would end its deal with Netflix to launch its own streaming service.

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!

Want to read great stories about Edmonton? Or maybe you’d like to write them? Join Taproot Edmonton and help us ensure that local journalism has a future in our city.

You can see past Media Monday Edmonton entries here.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• Charles Adler interviewed 630 CHED’s Bob Layton. “Layton the Legend”, he tweeted.
• Jason Roberts, formerly of up! 99.3 FM, has announced he is joining 100.3 The Bear FM. His first day on-air will be August 14.
• We’re writing an election roundup at Taproot Edmonton regularly from now until the election in October. Here’s the last edition, and we’ll send a new one this week. You can sign up for our mailing list here to get it delivered to your inbox.
• Happy birthday to Grant Ainsley! He used the opportunity to reflect on local media growing up in the 1960s and 1970s.
• The latest Seen and Heard in Edmonton newsletter clarifies how the popular blog and podcast fits in with the new Alberta Podcast Network. “I’ve been the public face of both Seen and Heard in Edmonton and the Alberta Podcast Network, and it might be helpful to understand what each is for and where they differ and converge,” Karen wrote.
• Here’s a tip from Tom Braid: former Edmonton Sun editor Gary Poignant has released a self-published book called 11-21-83 which explores the unsolved deaths of Murray Sparrow and Kathy Gilligan. He wrote about the case in the Sun back in 2014.
• Congratulations to Colleen Murray on being named one of the top 100 genealogy blogs by Feedspot!
• InHouse, an infill division of the Beaverbrook Group of Companies, is looking for a Social Media and Marketing Coordinator.

Shaw was promoting its new Blue Sky TV at the Heritage Festival

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• Tweet of the year contender from The Beaverton in commenting on the new hosts of The National: “CBC splits single white man’s salary between two women, two minorities”. Here’s the story.
• Here’s a great feature on Patreon, a platform that allows you to support independent creators.
• Netflix has made its first acquisition, buying comic publisher Millarworld, the company founded by Mark Millar.
• BuzzFeed News is launching a new morning show on Twitter later this year. It’s a bit of an experiment for both BuzzFeed and Twitter.
• Columbia Journalism School is launching a new master of science degree in data journalism. It will be aimed at students who want “practical, hands-on training essential to producing deeply reported data-driven stories.”

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!

Want to read great stories about Edmonton? Or maybe you’d like to write them? Join Taproot Edmonton and help us ensure that local journalism has a future in our city.

You can see past Media Monday Edmonton entries here.

I was in London a couple of weeks ago and then last week the jetlag wiped me out so it has been a little while since my last media update! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening throughout July:

• After 42 years in the news business, Global Edmonton’s station manager Tim Spelliscy is retiring. “Spelliscy was presented with an RTNDA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. In April 2017, he was placed on the Media Wall of Honour at Rogers Place.”
• The first members of the Alberta Podcast Network have been announced! There are ten podcasts to start, with more to be added in the coming weeks. One of the new members, Local Company of the River Valley Podcast, blogged about being in the network.
• CTV Edmonton parted ways with Dan Kobe this month. He had been the news director since January 2012.
• Today marked the 30th anniversary of the deadly “Black Friday” tornado that ripped through east Edmonton. From 630 CHED, here’s how broadcasters remember covering the news that day, and here’s how Edmonton Journal photographer Steve Simon remembers it. Weather forecasting has changed a great deal since 1987, as CTV Edmonton explored in its look back.
• Jeremy Simes’ last day at Metro was Friday, July 28. He’s moving on to cover the Edmonton region at The Western Producer.
• Episode 71 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features Sydney Lancaster, “the visual artist and advocate who extends the reach of her work through her blog and helps artists learn how to look after the business side of their work through Visual Arts Alberta-CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens).”
• And in case you missed it, Episode 70 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast featured audio from our Taproot Live event on urban planning wishes!
• Here’s an interview with CKUA’s Allison Brock, host of the show Wide Cut Country.
• Metro Edmonton is looking for a Reporter/Photographer.
• Former journalist and Edmonton-Griesbach MP Kerry Diotte made headlines recently for a threatening tweet in which he called Progress Alberta “fake news”.
• It is being reported that the Oilers and Leafs will appear three times each on NBC or NBCSN next season.
• Wild TV is looking for a General Manager here in Edmonton.
• Congratulations to the winners of CJSR’s Volunteer Awards which “recognize the outstanding achievements of the many volunteers who keep CJSR on the air with high quality programming that challenges the status quo.”
• Happy 90th birthday to Jack Hagerman who retired from CKUA in 1982 and re-joined in 1997 to act as operations manager.
• Congratulations to Global Edmonton’s Quinn Ohler on her recent wedding!
• The new Edmonton Screen Industries Office is looking for its first CEO. “The ESIO will serve all screen industries which encompass fiction and nonfiction content, inclusive of live action, animation and interactive video games.”

Premiers meet with National Indigenous Organization leaders, photo by Premier of Alberta

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• Andree Lau, who wrote the very popular food blog are you gonna eat that?, is the new editor-in-chief at Huffington Post Canada. Congrats!
• Here’s a glimpse of what’ll be possible in the very near future. Gives a whole new meaning to the term “fake news”.
• The Conversation Canada published its first POINT/COUNTERPOINT articles recently, and they chose the issue of “fake news” and licensing journalists. Here are the arguments for and against.
• Now that TV networks are expanding their local news offers in response to CRTC requirements, the question remains, will they be successful? “It’s a good thing, I just don’t understand how it makes money,” said Richard Stursberg, a former CBC executive who heads the writers’ group Pen Canada.
• Speaking of the CRTC, Ian Scott will take over as chair of the regulator starting in September.
• “The Mooch” was in and out of the White House faster than I could blog about it!

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!

Want to read great stories about Edmonton? Or maybe you’d like to write them? Join Taproot Edmonton and help us ensure that local journalism has a future in our city.

You can see past Media Monday Edmonton entries here.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• Tim Querengesser has been announced as the new editor of The Yards Magazine. “Tim takes over for founding Editor Omar Mouallem, and guest editor Tracy Hyatt.”
• The AGA is hosting a panel discussion on Wednesday evening on “fake news” with Dr. Jason M. Harley, Paula Simons, and Jana Pruden. Edmonton Journal editor-in-chief Mark Iype is moderating the event.
• Cam Tait has a nice tribute to Jay Hamilton who is battling Huntington’s disease. “The genetic brain disorder that, bluntly, causes brain cells to die forced Jay to flick the microphone off for the last time in 2013 while working weekends for 96.3 Capital FM.”
• Dan Barnes has joined Postmedia’s national sports team and will be responsible for amateur sports.
• Kim Smith is back in Edmonton and is now at Global Edmonton. She worked at CTV Edmonton a couple of years ago and was most recently down at Global Calgary.
• Gruff Gushnowski has joined the team at CISN Country 103.9 doing “vacation relief & casual shows over the summer.” He was previously at The One in Leduc.
• Here are the latest blog and podcast roundups from Seen and Heard in Edmonton. That’ll be the last podcast roundup for a bit as Karen is focusing now on building the Alberta Podcast Network.
• CJSR is hosting its annual volunteer appreciation party on Friday evening at SUB on the U of A campus. The event is “free for FACRA Members, and $10 for non-members (bring cash at the door).”
• Congrats to Glass Buffalo on five years since publishing its first issue!
• Voting is now open for Vue Weekly’s Best of Edmonton 2017. Vote for your favorite radio hosts, TV anchors, tweeters, bloggers, and more.
• Remember Spider-Mable? Back in 2015 the young superhero was trending on social media, and now U of A researcher Matty Flores is looking at why the story grew so quickly.
• Here’s the latest Taproot Edmonton newsletter. You can see all of our past issues here.

Canada Day 2017, photo by IQRemix

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• After 25 years at the station, Gord Gillies is moving from Global Calgary to News Talk 770 to host a new show launching on August 14. “A new co-anchor for Global News Hour at 6 will be announced in the coming weeks.” Imagine if Gord Steinke moved over to 630 CHED.
• Postmedia reported its 3rd quarter results last week. “Revenue for the quarter was $194.0 million as compared to $218.3 million in the prior year, a decrease of $24.3 million (11.1%).” The company will “continue to identify and undertake ongoing cost reduction initiatives in an effort to address revenue declination in the legacy print business.”
• Here’s a tweetstorm from ProPublica demonstrating how community participation led to a big story about Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump.
• The Atlantic is making a bigger bet on niche media with a revamped CityLab. The new site is “designed to better reflect CityLab’s increased understanding of its core audience of urban decision makers and influencers.”
• The New York Times interviewed Jay Leno about The Tonight Show and the “challenges of being a political joke-teller in a polarized environment.”

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!

Want to read great stories about Edmonton? Or maybe you’d like to write them? Join Taproot Edmonton and help us ensure that local journalism has a future in our city.

You can see past Media Monday Edmonton entries here.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• The Worst Show Ever is 100.3 The Bear FM’s new morning show featuring Scott McCord and Yukon Jack. It launches Tuesday, July 4 at 5:30am and Gig City has a preview.
• Here’s a recap of Part 1 of our Taproot Live event that focused on urban planning wishes! We’re aiming to publish part 2 this week.
• Edmonton Journal editor-in-chief Mark Iype shared his family’s Canadian story to help mark Canada 150.
• Episode 69 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features Scott and Amy Fralick, “the smart and creative couple who are chronicling their adventure with pregnancy later in life on their new podcast, 40 & Knocked Up!” Scott is a broadcast journalist at CITY-TV.
• Steve Faguy reports that the CRTC has approved Bell Media’s request to shutdown CFRN-TV-11 in Jasper, a transmitter for CTV Edmonton.
• The 26th annual Kevin Karius Easter Seals Celebrity Golf Classic is coming up on Wednesday in support of the Easter Seals of Alberta and features a number of local media personalities. “To date, almost $1.5 million dollars has been raised through this event and the fundraising continues for people living with a disability.”
• Someone stole Smokehouse BBQ’s food truck but thanks to social media it was found and returned early Sunday! The thieves stole food, drinks, and the debit card machine from the truck.
• The Sherwood Park News is looking for a multimedia journalist. The deadline to apply is July 7.
• Rogers is looking for a video journalist as it gears up to expand Citytv news programming across the country.
• Watch out for birds in the newsroom!
• Maybe find-and-replace doesn’t work so well when there are line-breaks?
• I enjoyed listening to Jeff Samsonow and Karen Unland at the ATB Entrepreneur Centre’s Speakeasy last week! They shared their journeys as media entrepreneurs, and agreed that a story should be widely seen in order to do the most good possible.

Jeff Samsonow & Karen Unland

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• Shannon Rupp tackles the idea of supporting newspapers in Canada with public funds in a new essay at The Tyee. “Surprisingly, the public seems largely unconcerned about subsidizing the rich,” she wrote.
• Was the social media reaction to Prime Minister Trudeau’s gaffe in forgetting to mention Alberta in his speech a bit over the top?
• Shaw said on Wednesday that it added 13,000 cable subscribers from March through May, the first net increase since the end of its fiscal year in 2010. “Shaw also attracted 21,000 new Internet customers in the third quarter,” the Globe and Mail reported.
• Bruce Buffalo is taking matters into his own hands in Maskwacis, Alberta and has setup two rooftop antennas to help make internet access for the community more affordable.

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!

Want to read great stories about Edmonton? Or maybe you’d like to write them? Join Taproot Edmonton and help us ensure that local journalism has a future in our city.

You can see past Media Monday Edmonton entries here.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• Marty Forbes notes that Bell Media raised $200,000 for the Stollery Children’s Hospital last week with another successful Stollery Radiothon! He also shared the news that NewCap GM Neil Cunningham has retired.
• See you at the ATB Entrepreneur Centre on Wednesday evening for the Entrepreneur Speakeasy with Jeff and Karen!
• Global Edmonton celebrated on June 19 a decade since the Global 1 news helicopter made its inaugural flight.
• I was sad to miss The Writing Stick: Sharing Indigenous Stories at the University of Alberta earlier this month but I am glad to hear it was so successful!
• The Examiner asked Alberta’s political parties about their social media practices and found they try to “toe the line between legitimate, if heated, political discourse and trolling, hateful speech and ad hominem attacks” noting that “there always seemed to be a bit of a grey area in this field.”
• A GoFundMe campaign has been created to “assist the family with funeral and memorial expenses for our beloved friend Ruth Kelly” with a goal of raising $10,000. Nearly $8,000 has been raised in the last five days.
• Joel Gotlib is back on-the-air at CTV Edmonton “after a brief time away.” Welcome back!
• Here is the latest podcast roundup from Seen and Heard in Edmonton.
• Want to know more about the new Alberta Podcast Network? Join their mailing list to be in the know.
• The Edmonton Screen Industries Office Society is “up and running” and is working to “help lead Edmonton in becoming a national and international centre for media production excellence,” Chair Carman McNary said in a news release.
• A new film called The Black is filming near Barrhead with some local cast and crew.
• The Wild TV Network, “Canada’s #1 Outdoor Lifestyle channel”, is looking for an Executive Assistant to the CEO. They’re based in Edmonton, but the job posting says the location is Vancouver, so you might want to check on that if you’re interested.

Solar panel rebate program launch, photo by Premier of Alberta

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• Peter Mansbridge started his career at CBC in 1968 as a radio host and will sign off from his final broadcast as host of The National on Canada Day. “When Mansbridge signs off from his final broadcast on Canada Day, it will mark not just the end of his role as chief correspondent for CBC News, but also the capstone of an era of TV news.” He is the longest-serving current anchor of a network newscast in North America at 29 years.
• Professors Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida of the University of British Columbia are the co-founders of The Conversation Canada, a new site that aims to “contribute to the quality of explanatory journalism in this country.” I see that the University of Alberta is one of the site’s founding partners.
• Canadaland has tackled The Great Newspaper Bailout in its latest episode.
• Postmedia is selling Infomart to Meltwater News Canada Inc. for $38.25 million. Meltwater said its clients “will enjoy access to an unparalleled level of local Canadian media intelligence” as a result of the deal.
• NPR has announced plans to roll out a regional hub system to make it easier for local stations to share expertise and resources with one another.
• The White House banned cameras at its press briefings a few times last week, so CNN sent their Supreme Court sketch artist to document Friday’s briefing.

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!

Want to read great stories about Edmonton? Or maybe you’d like to write them? Join Taproot Edmonton and help us ensure that local journalism has a future in our city.

You can see past Media Monday Edmonton entries here.