Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• More big changes in the world of local radio. Newcap has laid off seven people in Edmonton and more elsewhere in the province including Jonathan Best, Audie Lynds, Billy Williams, Jake Taylor, and Geoff Walker. As Cam Tait notes, Audie Lynds has been a fixture in Edmonton radio since 1981. I remember listening to him on Power 92! His last day at Capital FM was Wednesday.
• Episode 47 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features German Villegas, “a youth worker who conducts interviews about healthy masculinity on The Modern Manhood Podcast and jaws about hockey with his buddies on Your Team Sucks.”
• Here’s the latest update on Taproot Edmonton. “We’ve been working the soil over the past few weeks, and we’ve now got four stories at various stages of growth. We’ll be sharing the fruits of our storytellers’ labours soon.”
• From Vintage Edmonton, here’s a clip of CFRN-TV News from July 1992.
• Local comedian Sterling Scott will host a new dating game show on Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud network. “Just because we’re from Edmonton, and not from these big name cities, doesn’t mean we can’t create big name things,” he told CBC.
• Congratulations to Global Edmonton’s Margeaux Morin who is now Margeaux Maron! Looks like it was a beautiful wedding.
• Best wishes to Carole Anne Devaney who started her second maternity leave on August 5. She plans to blog during her leave here.
• Congratulations also to Jennifer Crosby who recently announced her second child is due in November!
• Here’s a peak at the Global Edmonton control room.
• A 25-year-old bartender from Edmonton named Seth will be one of the suitors on W Network’s first season of The Bachelorette Canada.
• The Sherwood Park News is still looking for a full-time reporter.
• If you like hockey and social media, this could be the job for you. “MLB Advanced Media, in partnership with the Oilers, is seeking a creative hockey enthusiast with a social media and editorial background to be our eyes and ears at Rogers Place during the 2016-17 season.” The deadline to apply is August 10.

Edmonton Folk Festival 2016, photo by Bo Lu

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while: John Oliver on Journalism. In that segment he said, “the media is a food chain which would fall apart without local newspapers,” and covered a range of familiar themes.
• Contrast that with the fascinating changes taking place at the New York Times. In short, they’re going to do less local reporting in order to better go after their “lofty international ambitions.” Public Editor Liz Spayd wrote, “You can’t have your reporters parked in courthouses and police stations all day — or chasing fires — and still deliver memorable, ambitious stories that take time to produce.” I realize that New York and the Times are a bit different than everywhere else, but still.
• In the Washington Post, Margaret Sullivan defended John Oliver’s 19-minute riff, saying “the whole Oliver piece was a pitch-perfect ode to how important newspapers are to their communities, and how troubling it is that they are fading.” The Newspaper Association of America was less than thrilled and accused Oliver of “petty insults.”
• Tweeting about the Olympics? Be careful! Here are the many, many ways your business can get in trouble for doing so.
• Should the government bail out the news business? That’s the topic of the latest Canadaland podcast.
• Joshua Topolsky’s new site The Outline has been called “a New Yorker for millennials.” Good luck figuring out what that means, but their target reader “lives in urban areas”, is “really tech-savvy”, and “eats farm-to-table food,” among other things.

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.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• The latest survey results from Vividata show that across Canada “readership of daily newspapers remains strong with eight out of 10 Canadian adults reading newspapers each week.” Here in Edmonton, the Journal leads the Sun which is followed closely by Metro (PDF). Now that the Journal and Sun are both Postmedia of course, they have a wide lead when combined. No longer are they reading different things though. Here’s essentially the same article in the Journal.
• Stephanie Dubois’ one-year contract with Alberta Primetime has come to an end. She is now pursuing freelancing full-time.
• Cam Tait has joined the Oilers Entertainment Group on a part-time basis as Community Content Co-ordinator (he’ll continue his Edmonton Sun column as well). Here’s his first piece for the Oilers: “We’re entering a new, exciting time in Edmonton, starting with the doors swinging open of the state-of-the-art Rogers Place.”
• Starting Tuesday morning, Lochlin Cross is bringing the Locker Room show back, this time to 95.7 CRUZ FM (he last did the show on The Bear). Co-hosts James White and Grant Johnson will join him from 100.3 The Bear and Hot 107, respectively.
• Here are the latest blog and podcast roundups from Seen and Heard in Edmonton. It may be summer, but there’s still lots of great stuff to read and listen to!
• I was a guest recently on Podcasts with Paul. We talked about blogging, podcasting, and of course, Taproot Edmonton.
• Global Edmonton is looking for a News Promotions, Writer/Producer. “This position is responsible for imaginative and effective news promotion for Edmonton’s #1 News station.”
• Rogers Media is looking for a Promotions Manager to work with SONiC, The Bounce, and World FM.
• The Sherwood Park News is looking for a full-time reporter.
• CFWE 98.5 FM Edmonton now has a sign up at its location on 13245 146 Street.
• Here’s a K97 flashback to 1992 of an Oilers fight song featuring John Sexsmith, Bruce Kenyon, and more.
• Here are 10 questions with Matt Cundill, who was at 100.3 The Bear for eight years from 1994-2002. He’s now consulting and hosting a podcast about radio!

92.5 Fresh FM and 630 CHED at the Heritage Festival

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• Here’s a feature on Vox Media’s new Storytelling Studio which aims to better use various digital tools and platforms to better tell large stories. “The Storytelling Studio is establishing that publications and media companies must continue to move beyond the idea of web-page-as-central-hub and instead apply product thinking at the story level to engage readers.”
• Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has filed for Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy protection to prevent Hulk Hogan (and Peter Thiel who is funding the lawsuit) from being able to seize his assets. In a tweet, Denton wrote: “On this bitter day for me, I am consoled by the fact that my colleagues will soon be freed from this tech billionaire’s vendetta.”
• This could be interesting: Joshua Topolsky has raised $5 million to start The Outline, a new digital publication. “The site’s content will focus on three areas: power, as it relates to subjects like politics and business; culture; and the future.”
• Here are 28+ apps that make your journalist’s life easier than ever.

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.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• From Harvard Broadcasting’s 95.7 CRUZ FM: “Gary James has announced that he is hanging up the headphones after 37 years on the airwaves. Gary came to Edmonton in 1996 and has been entertaining Edmonton’s listeners for the past twenty years.” As a result, “his co-host Shannon Medaglia, will be moving to weekends, and the weekend guy name Derek Allen, formerly with Fresh fm in the city, will become the new mid-day announcer.”
• Puget Sound Radio has also confirmed that Nicola Crosbie’s relationship with 95.7 CRUZ FM has ended. She posted about the news on Facebook: “Although I am sad that it didn’t work out, I am optimistic for the next opportunity that is somewhere out there!” She doesn’t have plans yet, but promises to keep her followers posted.
• Lochlin Cross is reportedly returning on August 2 with his Locker Room Show along with a co-host from The Bear.
• Congratulations to Ryan Jackson on the launch of his own video production company, Full Circle Visuals Inc. “I was fortunate to get six months of severance pay and I put that time to good use,” he wrote. “I used the severance as a gift of time to properly build the company and I’ve even hired my first employee, Sam Brooks.” Much respect.
• Ryan recently shared a photo of Lucinda Chodan letting him go from the Journal back on January 19. Pretty amazing story to go along with it (in the comments on the photo).
• And in other Ryan news, he was a guest along with video editor Chris Sikkenga at the last Edmonton Podcasting Meetup which you can listen to in Episode 46 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast. The next meetup is scheduled for September 18.
• Taylor Galvin has joined the morning show at CFWE Radio as of today. Bio coming soon!
• Reid Fiest notes that Vassy Kapelos, formerly of Global Edmonton, has been named Ottawa Bureau Chief for Global National. Congrats!
• From Vintage Edmonton, here’s CBC Edmonton’s coverage of the Black Friday tornado on July 31, 1987.
• In a new episode of the Jungle Talk Podcast, Terry Jones talks about his career covering sports.
• Omar reports that he is teaching a 4-week course at MacEwan in November “on tools that’ll make you a more productive writer.”
• Omar was featured in a recent episode of The Borchelli Brothers podcast. Also don’t miss the extended edition.
• The new Royal Alberta Museum will feature 14 videos on a wide range of subjects produced by Portland, Oregon-based North Shore Productions when it opens. Obviously the local industry is feeling a bit slighted. But others say the focus should be on embracing digital media.
• Postmedia is looking for a Content Editor to join the team here in Edmonton at Capital Ideas. The application deadline is tomorrow, July 26!
• Over at Taproot Edmonton, we have assigned our first stories! I’m very excited to see what our storytellers are able to do with some great questions from our members.

CTV Edmonton’s “So you want to be an anchor?” at K-Days

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• I meant to link to this last month: the crowdfunding campaign to launch The Calgarian ended with only a third of the pledges needed to continue. “Someone asked if I regretted starting this, since it cost me my job and failed in the end. I have to say I do not. It may have been a long-shot, but I believed it had a chance at success. If I hadn’t attempted this, I would have always wondered what might have been,” wrote Taylor Lambert, the man behind the project.
• Just in time for the Olympics, TELUS is launching 4K on Optik TV in BC and Alberta. “Customers will require a 4K TV, a 4K PVR, as well as a minimum of Internet 50 to support 4K streaming.” You can learn more here.
• Yahoo has agreed to sell its web businesses, including the purple brand and exclamation point, to Verizon for $4.8 billion. CEO Marissa Mayer is staying on for now. That means Verizon will own both AOL and Yahoo!
• The Washington Post is going to adapt some of its stories for Medium. “One of Medium’s big draws is its emphasis on getting users to engage with the posts they read,” notes NiemanLab.
• I guess we should prepare ourselves for more sponsored content: 75% of The Atlantic’s ad revenue and about 50% of Slate’s ad revenue come from the format, and others like the Times “have declared sponsored content to be an important part of their strategies.”

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.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• Kari Skelton has made a big announcement – she won’t be returning to Up! 99.3 FM. “When it came time to make a difficult decision, my little guy made it easy. My biggest honour and achievement is being a full-time mom. For now, that’s the job title I’m proud to keep.” Congrats!
• Megan Voss has decided to leave the Sherwood Park News after a little over two and a half years. Her goodbye column should be published here on Tuesday. Best of luck Megan!
• Check out 20 Questions with Stacey Brotzel. If she wasn’t in media she would be…”Marketing Mr. Brotzel’s hair gel.” Love it.
• I will definitely admit to playing the “Find Any Good Song” game in the car. From Gig City on Edmonton’s radio scene: “So many stations creates a flipper’s paradise.”
• It sounds like former Edmonton Journal reporter John MacKinnon is headed for Montreal. He was one of the folks let go when Postmedia merged the newsrooms back in January. I noticed he has been blogging on LinkedIn recently, so watch that space.
• In the latest episode of Monetizing Your Creativity, Marty Forbes talks about podcasting. “Do you have a great career ahead of you in radio, podcasting, or both? We have some excellent advice here from one of North America’s most respected radio executives … someone who walks the talk, tweets the truth and podcasts his point-of-view.”
• Here’s a great photo of the media folks that call City Hall their home away from home.
• Be sure to check out the latest blog and podcast roundups from Seen and Heard in Edmonton.
• Here’s a MIX 96 FM aircheck featuring Todd James.
• The old CityTV space in Enterprise Square will serve as the temporary home for the Stanley Milner Library while the current location on Churchill Square is redeveloped. It’ll be great to see that part of Jasper Avenue activated!
• Karen is teaching a workshop on August 4 about how podcasting can help get your word out at the new ATB Entrepeneur Centre. It’s free to register but space is limited.
• The polls are open for Vue Weekly’s Best of Edmonton 2016 and there are plenty of media categories on the ballot (and a few online ones too). Voting closes August 22.

Premier Rachel Notedly poses with actor R. Madhavan at the India Film Festival of Alberta, photo by Premier of Alberta

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• Rogers may be feeling the effects of having no Canadian teams in the NHL playoffs but TSN fared better without the NHL than expected. “TSN, for the most part, remains the network viewers turn to for NHL events outside of the games, such as the trade deadline and free agency.” Lots of good information in that article about both TSN and Sportsnet.
• According to a recent CRTC report, about 160,000 Canadians cancelled their TV subscription last year. But losses were offset by increased prices, of course.
• Netflix had forecasted it would add 2.5 million subscribers in Q2 but it only added 1.7 million and it blamed the miss on press about the price hike.
• This is so incredibly interesting to me: “When the Republican National Convention kicks off in Cleveland Monday, BuzzFeed will have a reporter in everyone’s pocket. On Sunday, BuzzFeed launched BuzzBot, an automated chatbot for Facebook’s Messenger app.” I’m very eager to see what comes of 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!

You can see past Media Monday Edmonton entries here.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• Here’s an update on where things are at with Taproot Edmonton. We have learned a lot from our members over the last few weeks and are continuing to march forward! “The next step will be to engage our storytellers to pick an idea, scope it out, and see if we can bring it to fruition.” You can help us by becoming a member.
• Congrats to The Movie Jerks podcast on 200 episodes! “Its Edmonton creators and hosts, JP Fournier and Shawn Gramiak, have marvelled at numbers as high as 50,000 downloads, usually coming in around 30,000.”
• Episode 45 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features “Jessica Cooreman and Katie Woodfine, the hardcore footy fans behind For Kicks, a podcast that follows the Canadian national women’s team on the road to Rio, as well as women’s soccer in general.”
• “We tend to hold the content published in mainstream newspapers higher than blogs and online content, for its supposed sense of professionalism and legitimacy – though certainly there are both good and bad critics in both spheres,” writes Mel Priestley in this feature on restaurant reviews. She interviewed Twyla Campbell, Liv Vors, and Phil Wilson for the piece. Then she joined Phil for an episode of the Off Menu Podcast discussing the topic.
• Rope for Hope, a fundraising challenge for Make-A-Wish in Northern Alberta, takes place on Wednesday at the Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel. But some members of the local media will get a crack at it tomorrow.
• Postmedia has an opening for a Reporter at the Journal/Sun “who will help drive and coverage of issues and events in Alberta’s capital and northern Alberta.” The deadline to apply is July 25.
• The Oilers Entertainment Group is looking for a Director of Live Events and New Ventures. In addition to the Oilers and Oil Kings, “OEG also owns and operates one of Canada’s most accomplished television, event, and brand-promotion companies and has recently added Silver Pictures Entertainment to its growing sports & entertainment business.”
• CBC Edmonton has five new job postings as of last week: Associate Producer (Digital), Digital Associate Producer, Executive Producer, Producer, and Senior Reporter (French Services).
• Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli has received intense criticism for some of his off-season moves, like trading Taylor Hall for Adam Larsson. But it sounds like he was ready for it. “It’s a tough business. Whatever you do social media is going to criticize you. Whatever you do. It’s like talk radio and it’s a really public forum — and you don’t look at it basically.”
• From CBC News, here are 5 independent Indigenous media sources to check out online, including Edmonton-based Windspeaker.
• Disney’s NEWSIES, based on the 1992 film “loosely based on the New York City Newsboys Strike of 1899”, is on stage at the Jubilee through Sunday.
• If you like Vintage Edmonton from Rev Recluse, you should check out his new project called News Obscure.

Rob Hislop shooting at the TrackTown Olympic Trials, photo by Don Voaklander

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• It’s all Pokemon Go these days in my social media feeds, how about you? Linda rounds up the news on that and more in her latest social media notes.
• Here’s the latest on Postmedia. The company has “proposed a recapitalization plan that would reduce its total debt obligation by about $307 million, putting the country’s largest newspaper publisher on sounder financial footing.” Sounds like a bunch of financial magic to prolong the inevitable.
• From Liz Spayd, the new Public Editor at the New York Times, on the importance of listening: “Had we been listening more carefully and sooner, we would have known that our readers were using their phones for news while we were focused on monitors.”
• Here is an interview with Re/code’s Peter Kafka on the digital trends that will most impact audio, online radio, radio, and podcasting. It’s 20 minutes long but he shares some interesting thoughts.
• BuzzFeed takes a look at the relationship between Twitter and Facebook when news breaks.

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.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• 630 CHED’s Ryan Jespersen has been named one of the most influential people in Alberta for 2016 by Alberta Venture. “By asking questions many others avoid (or don’t know to ask), and undeterred by his subjects’ fame or fortune, Jespersen has carved an important part of the media landscape out for himself,” the magazine wrote. Congrats Ryan!
• Capital Ideas Edmonton launched four years ago and this week released their Anniversary Report. They’ve had 4,090 attendees and 138 panelists in that time and today count more than 3,200 members. Congrats!
• Here are the latest blog and podcast roundups from Seen and Heard in Edmonton.
• Check out the full list of podcasts who have expressed interest in joining the Seen and Heard Podcast Network. If you want to be a sponsor, you can learn more here.
• The St. Albert Gazette is looking for a general assignment reporter. The deadline to apply is July 15.
• CTV Edmonton is looking for a writer/producer. The deadline to apply is July 8.
• Couple of other application deadlines coming up this week: Wednesday for Postmedia’s digital producer position and Friday for the Edmonton Examiner’s multimedia journalist summer internship.
• Nikita-Kiran Singh, outgoing editor of The Wanderer, has passed the torch on to Collins Maina, “an empathetic and reflective leader whose creativity, insight, and versatility will surely lead The Wanderer in a direction of dynamic growth.”
• After the House Lights has issued a call for media releases for the 2016 Fringe Festival. Jenna will preview every show that sends a media release, as she has done for the last two years.
• With a potential Canada Post strike looming, Postmedia has issued a statement on the possible disruption. If Canada Post currently delivers your paper, you might be stuck with the ePaper version for a while. “We will make every effort to hold copies in the meantime and mail them out after the labour dispute ends.”
• We have created a profile for Taproot Edmonton on Make Something Edmonton! It’s a natural fit: We’re makers, and we’re eager to work with our members to create a way to commission then promote curiosity-driven stories rooted in the place where we live. Speaking of our members, we’ve been busy prototyping the Story Garden with them, and we’d love for you to join us.

Photo by Premier of Alberta

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• BBC has announced plans for a news bureau in Toronto and the launch of a Canadian edition of BBC.com. The localized version will launch later this year. The announcement was made just days after BuzzFeed announced plans to scale back in Canada. There’s more on the news in this Financial Post article.
• Yesterday was the 20 year anniversary of the launch of CBCNews.ca. The site is currently being redesigned to be more responsive for mobile devices.
• Corus Entertainment has a new visual identity designed by Troika. The rebrand replaces the playful former logo with a much plainer new wordmark.
• In other Corus news, the investigative news program 16×9 has been cancelled, apparently in a bid to cut costs. Host Carolyn Jarvis (who local viewers will remember from Global Edmonton about ten years ago) “will remain at the network as its chief investigative correspondent.”
• There are changes taking place at News Talk 770 down in Calgary. Roger Kingkade has been let go while Danielle Smith is taking over the 9:30am-12:30pm timeslot starting tomorrow.
• Facebook made changes to its newsfeed this week, as noted by Linda. Here’s what Jay Rosen had to say: “Now that they’re publicly committed to certain values the next thing Facebook needs is a public editor to synthesize complaints and get answers when the company falls short.”
• Looking to see what’s new on Netflix in Canada this month? Jay has you covered.

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.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• Corus Entertainment and the Edmonton Eskimos have agreed to a multi-year deal that will keep the Eskimos on 630 CHED through 2021. “The 2016 season is CHED’s 23rd straight season as the Eskimos flagship.”
• A fundraising campaign to save Connect2Edmonton has raised more than $8,000 so it sounds like the site will live on. Metro has the story.
• The latest episode of Avry’s Sports Show features an interview with Gene Principe. “We chewed the fat on the Oilers, his career, the changing landscape in sports media and his encounters with Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky.”
• Episode 44 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features Marcia J. Hamm, the wine lover who explores her passion and makes educated but accessible recommendations on her blog, Joy of Wine.
• The Edmonton Journal/Edmonton Sun is looking for a digital editor “to help drive traffic and engagement on our website and mobile apps.” The deadline to apply is July 6.
• The Edmonton Examiner is looking for a multimedia journalist for a 12-week summer intern position.
• NAIT’s Radio and Television program has an opening for an instructor in the television stream. The opportunity is “a one-year temporary position with the possibility of extension.”
• Here’s a bit of CFRN-TV-Radio ephemera from 1957, courtesy of Vintage Edmonton.
• The July issue of Avenue Edmonton includes an advertorial feature on Global Edmonton’s Su-Ling Goh and Laurel Gregory.
• From The Journal: “The Alberta First Responders Radio Communications System (AFRRCS) will be activated July 1, allowing police, emergency medical services, fire departments and government agencies to access and communicate on the same network instead of the standalone systems they use now.”

Alberta First Responders Radio Communications System, photo by Premier of Alberta

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• It’s official: George Stroumboulopoulos is out and Ron MacLean is back at Hockey Night in Canada. But Strombo wasn’t the only one cut – Glenn Healy, P.J. Stock, and five others all lost their jobs too.
• In her latest social media notes, Linda highlights the focus on video from Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and of course YouTube. I love that Vine has expanded from a 6 second limit to 140 seconds.
• In his latest column, Marty Forbes shares some thoughts on the impact of digital on the media landscape.
• Canadians consider websites of major daily newspapers as the most prestigious media environments, according to the Context Matters Consumer Study, conducted by Rogers Insights in partnership with the Canadian Marketing Association (CMA), Marketing magazine and Globe Media Group.
• This is a pretty interesting read from CJR. Who owns the news consumer: Social media platforms or publishers?
• Brexit is one of those events that is perfectly suited to a roundup of newspaper front pages the day after.

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.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• After 10 years of providing a place for local discussions about our city, Connect2Edmonton is shutting down. The site launched on March 30, 2006 and was described as “the world’s first true online community exclusively dedicated to the global promotion of a geographic region.” It was originally supported by EEDC, Edmonton Airports, the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Edmonton and later became a non-profit with an independent board of directors and group of volunteers.
• Mel Priestley has resigned from Vue Weekly after six years at the paper. “It’s my sincere hope that something rises up soon to fill in the steadily increasing gaps in local community coverage and alternative news voices – and I’m going to work hard to contribute to that,” she wrote.
• Karen and I recorded a brief interview talking about Taproot Edmonton. Give it a listen to hear more about what we’re up to!
• The CRTC has announced it will hold a hearing in Edmonton on September 27 to consider 12 applications for new radio stations.
• Vue Weekly interviewed Gwynne Dyer on the state of news media.
• Kari Skelton and Ryan Jespersen were featured along with their son Wyatt in a recent article on what to do when your baby won’t sleep. “Now at 11 months, he goes to bed after a bath and story, and sleeps for 12 hours.” Nice!
• In last week’s column, Marty Forbes covers some recent media moves and notes that Terry Jones is releasing a new book this week called Epic Legacies of the Edmonton Eskimos.
• Here is some additional commentary on the latest radio ratings from Pat Holiday.
• ICYMI: Here’s the latest blog and podcast roundups from Seen and Heard in Edmonton!
• The new season of Amazing Race Canada starts on June 28 on CTV and it features two teams from Edmonton.
• CKUA’s Party in the Park took place on Friday and looked like a lot of fun. They had a ukelele choir!

Photo courtesy of CKUA

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• In her latest social media notes, Linda links to a new study that suggests 59% of links shared on social media have never been clicked on.
• The CRTC has issued its new regulatory framework for local and community programming, following a process that began in September 2015. “English-language stations will be required to broadcast at least seven hours of locally relevant programming (especially news) per week in non-metropolitan markets, and 14 hours per week in metropolitan markets (namely Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary).”
• This is mildly amusing: a graphic encouraging a boycott of “anti-conservative mainstream media” has been making the rounds. Ryan Jespersen made the list by name!
• From CJR: Why the news isn’t what it used to be.
• Here’s an update on the future of Gawker Media from founder Nick Denton. “Gawker will be just fine, both in business and in spirit.”
• The 13th annual Pew Research State of the News Media Report estimates that in 2015 the newspaper industry lost 7% of daily circulation and 8% of ad revenues.

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.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• The latest radio ratings are out. Now! 102.3 FM is once again on top, followed by 103.9 CISN Country and then 630 CHED. There’s some commentary at PSR and some additional breakdown and commentary from Bray & Partners Communications.
• The web show “To the Point” moderated by Councillor Mike Nickel has been on hiatus and won’t be coming back after someone posted a rape joke on the show’s Twitter account.
• From The Tyee: Fort Mac Fire Sparked Little Media Talk of Global Warming. “Mount Royal University journalism professor Sean Holman was so bothered by the scant climate coverage in the Fort Mac fire story that he stood up at a national journalism conference in Edmonton to ask reporters why.”
• Episode 43 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features Matt Mercer-Slingsby, one of the hosts of Drink This Podcast. The episode is sponsored by Taproot and includes a conversation between Karen and I about our project!
• Sahar Saifee wrote about the Journalist Interrupted panel that took place last month at MacEwan. There’s video too!
• Congratulations to Edmonton Journal reporter Nick Lees who was inducted into the Edmonton Hall of Fame for Community Service.
• Congratulations to the Edmonton Journal on picking up five awards and one honorable mention in the 28th annual Society for Features Journalism awards.
• Did you enjoy that small taste of Calgary in your Edmonton Journal on Saturday? Just kidding, every city gets the same thing no matter what the subheading says.
• Eighteen Bridges is looking for a part-time managing editor. The deadline to apply is Wednesday.
• The Local Good is looking for a social media coordinator.
• The Yards is launching its Summer 2016 issue on Thursday, June 16 at the Creative Practices Institute in Oliver. Admission is $5.00.
• The new X-Men movie Apocalypse features drone footage created by St. Albert-based Smart Drones. Nice!
• A proposed change to the Centre for Writers at the University of Alberta has been halted for now. “The university originally planned to change the C4W from an academic unit in the Faculty of Arts to a student service in the office of the Dean of Students by July 1,” wrote Jamie Sarkonak in The Gateway. “According to those in the C4W, removing its academic direction could substantially impact writing education at the University of Alberta, as the centre’s academic tutoring would no longer be guided by a professor specialized in writing centre theory.”

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• CBCNews.ca was named Digital Publication of the Year in the 2016 Digital Publishing Awards.
• Shaw is planning to raise its residential TV, internet, and phone plans this summer. “Customers can expect to see a rate adjustment of approximately $0-5 for television, approximately $2-3 for Internet and $1 for phone services depending on the services they subscribe to.” The new rates will take effect August 1.
• Neimen Lab takes a look at Mary Meeker’s annual state of the internet slide deck and says the scariest chart for newspapers has gotten even scarier.
• Microsoft announced today it has agreed to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. In an email to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that together the two companies can “reinvent ways to make professionals more productive while at the same time reinventing selling, marketing and talent management business processes.” We’ll have to see how this affects LinkedIn’s Pulse.
• Here are Linda’s latest social media notes. I like punctuation, but apparently many young people interpret that negatively!

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

I’m working with Karen on a new approach to local journalism and we’d love for you to join us by becoming a member of Taproot Edmonton.

You can see past Media Monday Edmonton entries here.

Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:

• As mentioned last week, NAIT has received a $400,000 donation from Sportsnet. The money “will fund scholarships as well as support multimedia and digital media training, development and production at NAIT.”
• Congratulations to CBC Edmonton on winning four RTDNA Awards on Saturday. Janice Johnston, Andrea Huncar, Marion Warnica, and Rod Kurtz all won awards. CTV Edmonton and Global Edmonton (and Bob Layton) also picked up one award each. You can see the full list here.
• Jordan Hertner is the newest member of the CTV Edmonton team – her first day was today. She was formerly with Shaw TV.
• Ryan Jespersen has featured a couple media folks recently. On Thursday he spoke with Global Edmonton’s Gord Steinke about the return to Fort McMurray and how Global tells the story, and today he spoke with Claire Martin.
• The Yards is currently running a reader survey. Let them know how they can serve you better!
• Episode 43 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features Jeff Samsonow of the edmontonian media co. talking about how to ask good questions.
• Also be sure to check out the latest podcast and blog roundups.
• Global Edmonton’s Carole Anne Devaney has had enough of trolls and blogged a response to them. “What those internet trolls seem to forget is that there’s much more to Carole Anne Devaney than what they see between 6 and 7 pm.”
• Former Edmonton Journal feature writer Elizabeth Withey won an Alberta Literary Award recently, one of six Edmontonians to do so. Congrats!
• Elise Campbell is the new community manager at Capital Ideas Edmonton. Congrats!
• Here’s a recap of a CAJ session on striking out on your own featuring Omar Mouallem, Caitlin Crawshaw, and Taylor Lambert.
• Wednesday is the deadline to apply for the Digital Content Editor position at CKUA.
• Leduc’s 93.1 The One FM is looking for a Program Director and On Air Personality.
• Edmontonians Ryan Stock and Amberlynn Walker were on America’s Got Talent recently and not only made it to the next round, but got a standing ovation from Simon Cowell! But beware, their stunt is disgusting and horrifying.
• Fort McMurray rock station 100.5 Cruz FM was off the air for two and a half days due to the wildfires but they’re back on the air now and were deemed an essential service. “The fire came perilously close to its transmitter near the airport, but caused no harm to it in the end.”
• We sent out the first newsletter last week for Taproot Edmonton! Still lots to be done, but it’s a start.

91.7 The Bounce in the Pride Parade, photo by Richard Le Sueur

And here is some slightly less local media stuff:

• In her latest social media notes, Linda points to the news that Facebook, Twitter, and some other big social networks have pledged to review requests for removing hateful content within 24 hours.
• The Winnipeg Free Press has been experimenting with micropayments and it sounds as though the experiment is going well. The organization has about 8,500 digital-only subscribers and sells about 1,000 articles per day. They’ve sold 265,000 articles since the model launched on July 1 last year.
• CTV’s Canada AM has ended after 43 years and will be replaced by new show “Your Morning” co-hosted by Ben Mulroney and former CBC News anchor Anne-Marie Mediwake.
• CBC is hoping to be seen as “editorial leaders” with new programming and other changes.
• According to a new comScore study, people prefer ads in podcasts over any other digital medium. “The study of 2,000 U.S. respondents ages 18 to 49 found that two-thirds of listeners have acted on ads they heard in a podcast either by researching a product or service or by actually purchasing something they first heard about in an episode.”
• From POLITICO: How Donald Trump Destroyed the Interview.
• From BuzzFeed: “BuzzFeed has terminated a deal with the Republican National Committee to run political advertisements in the fall, the company’s CEO, Jonah Peretti, informed employees Monday morning.”

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.