Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• Big props to Tamara Stecyk for organizing another very successful Meet the Media Tweetup! In her recap post, Tamara said “it appears that a themed tweetup like Meet the Media is overwhelmingly popular and in demand.” Here are some photos from the event.
• Edmontonian Mark Marek has been in the news lately because of his website Best Gore, which features graphic video and images of murders, suicides, and more. He hosted a video allegedly showing the the murder of Jun Lin by Luka Rocco Magnotta, which was so popular he had to take it down because the site couldn’t keep up. Apparently it was viewed more than 300,000 times in a four hour span on Thursday. Global Edmonton has an interview with Marek here, and here’s the full transcript.
• Global Edmonton is expanding its news programming this summer. Starting August 27, the Early Morning News will air at 5am. The Sunday Morning News will also be extended by an hour, starting at 7am starting September 2.
• After fourteen years with the Edmonton Eskimos, media relations director Dave Jamieson has resigned. Terry Jones wrote: “There’s almost certainly a story in there somewhere but Jamieson is good enough at his job that he’s not going to go there. He intends to go out the door an Eskimo.”
• Here is the latest edition of the Unknown Studio’s Edmonton Blog Watch. I’ve really been enjoying this feature!
• In an update on the Edmonton Experiment, Karen clarified that they are focusing on “entrepreneurs”. Here’s an update from Brittney too.
• The St. Albert Leader is looking for an Advertising Sales Rep to join their team.
• In case you missed it last week, here is Linda Hoang’s first social media column in the Edmonton Sun. Her next column should be up tomorrow!
• I’m not really sure what to make of this Relinked column on the death of the Sunday edition. David Johnston writes: “Don’t think that because the announcement has been made, the conversation is over.” I can’t see the Edmonton Journal returning to printing on Sundays, but I suppose there could be other changes on tap.
• Speaking of the death of Sunday’s paper, check out this post by Maurice Tougas. “The Journal Sunday paper is a shadow of its former self. Oh, there’s still good stuff in it on a good Sunday, only a whole hell of a lot less.” Well said.
• Congratulations to the finalists in the 2012 Digital Alberta Awards.
• GIG CITY has an interview with Edmonton editor Peter Midgley, who was shortlisted for the $2000 Tom Fairley Award by the Editor’s Association of Canada.
• Don’t click this link. It links to a CBC article that includes an embedded 10.4 MB image. Internet connections are getting faster, but not that fast! You should never embed an image that big.
• I did like this CBC article though. The embedded Google Map features moose icons! Love it!
• CTV is now Canada’s most-watched network in total viewers and all three key adult demographics for a complete decade.
• I just came across this article in the Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune. “Maybe it’s because of Edmonton media over-exposure in our neck of the woods, but they’re always whining.” The rest of it is even worse. Someone sure doesn’t like Edmonton.

Filistix & The Act on BT Edmonton!

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 is my latest update on local media stuff:

• The big news today is that Postmedia is once again making significant cutbacks and this time Edmonton is affected. Effective July 1, the Journal will no longer be publishing a Sunday edition of the paper. They are also dropping TV Times in print, and are evaluating a paywall. Postmedia has also decided to move copy-editing out of its metropolitan newsrooms to a centralized facility in Hamilton, ON. Here’s a note to readers from Journal publisher John Connolly, complete with a FAQ on the changes.
• At the same time as these cutbacks are taking place, the Edmonton Experiment is charging ahead. That’s a good thing. Postmedia’s problem isn’t stemming costs, it is building revenues. And without something new and innovative, that’s not going to happen. As Karen wrote, “The only way out of this is to innovate.” Here’s a clue about what the Edmonton Experiment will focus on.
• A couple of weeks ago I broke the story about the City Market’s proposed bylaw changes. Here’s the right way to chime in, with attribution to the source both in the text and with a link. Here’s the wrong way to chime in, with no attribution whatsoever. Yes I would have preferred that the Edmonton Journal recognize my work – no one had the story until my entry. A simple link would have been more than sufficient. Actually I’d say that in 2012 a link is pretty much expected! I think the Journal did their readers a disservice by not linking, because my entry had a lot more detail that they could have pointed interested readers to. I understand that finding the source for a story is not always straightforward, but in this case I don’t think there was any question that my article was the source.
• Here’s an update from Linda Hoang on her first two weeks as a web reporter at CTV Edmonton. Sounds like she is having fun! Also some big news today from Linda: she’s taking over the Page 6 column in the Edmonton Sun vacated recently by Brittney Le Blanc. Congrats Linda!
• Check out The Unknown Studio’s Edmonton Blog Watch! Every week they’ll link to “some of the interesting, compelling or outstanding blog posts from members of the Edmonton online community.” Here’s the latest edition.
• Here’s a guest post by Richard Liebrecht discussing media coverage of the 2012 Alberta Election. Read the whole thing, but here’s an excerpt: “Had it not been for a blogger talking about conscience rights and the Wildrose, and a P.C.-connected tweeter highlighting gay-damning comments from a Wildrose candidate, the election may have been nothing but a bunch of rehashed press releases and horserace stories.”
• GIG CITY profiles Shine FM: “You have to listen to everything to get a true sense of the reality of any radio station. Shine announcers are uniformly chirpy, the little in-between sermonettes are inspirational without shoving anything down anyone’s throat, and a few of the songs don’t actually suck. This is the highest compliment one can pay any commercial radio station anywhere.”
• Reporter Jenna Bridges joined Global Edmonton last week. She was most recently with Citytv.
• I really like this from the Journal: Highway 63 accident database. Great stuff!
• If your dream is to become a reality TV star like the people on Jersey Shore or Big Brother, here’s your chance: “NORTHSIDERS is a wild, racy, and unpredictable ‘social experiment’, as we throw a group of bona-fide ‘northsiders’ into a run-down house, make them live together for 13 weeks, and see if anyone survives with any dignity intact.” Auditions will be held on Wednesday from 4-8pm. Yes it’s legit. This could be interesting!
• Older news but I wanted to capture it here: AOL Canada and the Huffington Post are expanding to Alberta. Will they end up in Edmonton?
• The Journal has launched an improved mobile website. They say the mobile site was viewed more than 2.8 million times in April.
• Congratulations to the winners of the 38th Annual Alberta Film & Television Awards! Edmonton’s Niobe Thompson won the most awards of the night with 5 for his documentary The Perfect Runner. Here are some photos from the event.
• Here are the finalists for the 30th annual Western Magazine Awards.
• The June edition of Boyle McCauley News is now online!

Breakfast Television Studios!

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 is my latest update on local media stuff:

• No idea where they are getting their metrics, but Global Edmonton sent out a tweet the day after the election thanking Edmontonians for making them the most watched election-night special in the city. Speaking of, Linda posted a photo of the web team that kept Global Edmonton’s online stuff updated throughout the night.
• You might be wondering how a non-profit like CKUA can afford to buy the new Alberta Hotel for $12 million. Turns out they sold their existing building for $2.6 million, received a $5 million grant from the City of Edmonton, and will be arranging a mortgage for the rest. It’ll be great to see the building come to life!
• Congratulations to CBC Edmonton’s Charles Rusnell and Grant Gelinas for picking up a couple of CAJ awards!
• The Journal’s Andrea Sands and Larry Wong were recognized last week in the Alberta Teachers’ Association’s annual Education News Writers & Photographers of Alberta awards.
• Sheila Pratt of the Edmonton Journal was a runner-up in the Politics category of the National Newspaper Awards. The paper itself was a runner-up in the Breaking News category for its coverage of the Slave Lake fires.
• Here’s a great tweet photo from Brittney – Bob Layton has upgraded to an iPhone!
• Michael Brechtel tackles the question of just who a citizen journalist is. Does everyone with a soapbox qualify?
• GigCity has your list of winners for the Edmonton Music Awards.
• Julianna Cummins is leaving the Edmonton Journal. Her colleague Stuart Thomson has written a great profile of Julianna and her work.
• Breakfast Television is looking for a freelance videographer to be on call. The deadline to apply is May 31 and the salary is $225/day.
• Metro Edmonton is looking for a reporter/photographer to join the team. The deadline to apply is May 6, see full details here.
• Principal photography for the third season of Come Dine with Me Canada begins this spring, and Edmonton is one of the locations. The episodes should air sometime in the fall.
• Ooh them’s fightin’ words! “Unsubstantiated rumor mongering” from the MSM? Say it ain’t so!
• With MacEwan consolidating its campuses downtown, plans for the big orange Centre for Arts & Communications building remain undecided.

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 is my latest update on local media stuff:

• I really like the new metronews.ca website. Powered by WordPress, I find the new Edmonton website much easier to read and navigate! What do you think?
• Despite some blog posts receiving thousands of likes and tweets, an online poll conducted by Metro found that 44.6% of participants still look to traditional media when making their voting decisions. Maybe that’s because the coverage is hard to avoid…
• This is awesome. Scott Lilwall has created The Canadian Access to Information Database, which lets you search through all federal access to information requests. Nice work Scott!
• Here’s the very long list of finalists for the 38th Annual Alberta Film & Television Awards. Edmonton organizations have done quite well: “Aquila Productions of Edmonton leads the nominations with 13 nods in various categories. The half-hour comedy series, “CAUTION: May Contain Nuts” from Edmonton-based Mosaic Entertainment had the most nominations for an individual production with 12.” I’m so happy to see Sally nominated for the edmontonian presents!
• Mike Ross at Gig City wrote an entire article on Mike Wellensiek, better known as Mike the Posterman. I love it.
• Also at Gig City: Garner Andrews, morning man of mystery. “In a land of tweet-reading nitwits, Garner Andrews stands alone.”
• Yay! The Unknown Studio has selected a location for their upcoming live show – it will be recorded at Happy Harbor downtown!
• Marty Forbes has highlighted a number of significant media anniversaries coming up this year. CISN FM will celebrate 30 years in June, and The Bear turns 20 this fall.
• Emily Mertz has joined the web team at Global Edmonton. Tuesday was her first day.
• Congratulations to Global Edmonton for picking up the RTDNA Murrow Award for their Slave Lake Fire coverage.
• The Edmonton Journal is looking to hire a full-time reporter to cover criminal justice issues as part of a three-member crime bureau.
• Bill MacLoughlin has started blogging with The MacLoughlin Report. He appropriately gave kudos to Daveberta in his opening post! We’ll see how long the blog lasts (the reality is most fail in short order, and I don’t have a lot of faith that anything created during an election will last beyond it).
• Here’s a pretty innovative project from Ryan Jackson at the Edmonton Journal: Ask the party leaders questions over coffee. Definitely worth a look if you haven’t already come across it!
• There is a lot of speculation that Alberta’s film & television producers are going to be hit hard by last month’s federal budget cuts.
• Edmonton Journal sports writer Evan Daum has been recognized by the Canada West Universities Athletics Association.
• It stings, Cory, it stings! In an interview with The Province, Vancouver Canucks goaltender Cory Schneider said: “Nobody cares about Edmonton so nobody hates them. It’s that simple.” Unsurprisingly, that got some local folks pretty upset. He later apologized.
• Here’s a great shot of the old CKUA building.
• Ugh. The Journal Goosecam is back.

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 is my latest update on local media stuff:

• For updated election projections, check out ThreeHundredHeight.com. Here’s their post from earlier today highlighting how well the Wildrose are doing in recent polls.
• If you haven’t already, check out Alberta Tweets. It’s a project of Armadillo Studios that is visualizing the election on Twitter – who is tweeting, what are the common topics, etc. Here’s the infographic for March 25 to April 1.
• Fil Fraser was among the deserving winners of the Diamond Jubilee Medal: “Fil Fraser is an Alberta and Canadian pioneer in the areas of broadcasting, film, television production, newspaper publishing and multiculturalism. He has written extensively on human rights and multiculturalism issues and served as Chairman of the Alberta Human Rights Commission. He also has been instrumental in developing the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards. Fil is a Member of the Order of Canada and the Alberta Order of Excellence.”
• There’s some great Edmonton representation in this list of Alberta’s top 10 style bloggers.
• Metro Edmonton has launched a bit of a redesign, and according to the latest NADbank figures, has grown its readership by 31%.
• According to those same figures, combined print & online weekday readership for the Edmonton Sun increased 2.9% in 2011 compared to an increase of 1.2% for the Edmonton Journal. In February, the Sun’s online traffic reached 350,000 unique visitors.
• Congratulations to @britl on posting 50,000 tweets!
• This is pretty amazing! Joy Roberts White, a former reporter who worked for Reuters and the BBC, recently celebrated her 102nd birthday at the Edmonton General! She was an Edmonton print and broadcast journalist for CTV, CBC and CKUA from the ’50s to the ’90s. Nice job Laurie on sharing that story!
• Journal photographer Larry Wong has been nominated for an award from the Canadian Association of Journalists for his work during the World Juniors, among other things.
• Marty has some updates on local radio news. SONIC’s Garner Andrews won Morning Show of the Year and Al Ford won Program Director of the Year at the Canadian Music Week awards.
• Check out Garage Shots, a new automobile magazine created by local photographer Darren Greenwood. The Journal wrote about it this week.
• I missed mentioning the launch of Phabrik, a new fashion, art, and design magazine from Sandra Sing Fernandes. As long as you’re on a device with Flash, check it out here.
• Congratulations to the winners of the Alberta Magazine Awards for 2012! The full list is here. Great to see Ruth Kelly recognized in the Achievement in Publishing category!
• Here’s more on the drive to save the old Edmonton Journal paper shacks. "If nobody wants it, it will eventually get demolished, like everything else."
• The First Alberta Campus Radio Association (FACRA) is holding its AGM on June 7 at the U of A, and they’re looking for board members too.
• Congrats to fusedlogic on closing a round of equity financing and the subsequent expansion! They’re hiring!
• The latest issue of Boyle McCauley News is online!
• Kelly Ripa is in Alberta this week, filming four episodes of her show in Banff. She was given the white cowboy hat. What’s the Edmonton equivalent for VIPs? Do we have one? Do we need one?

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 is my latest update on local media stuff:

• It’s official: Election Day in Alberta will be Monday, April 23. I love that Elections Alberta has embraced Twitter as a key communications tool. The candidates themselves think that social media is going to have a big impact on the election too. The hashtag to use is #abvote!
• Unsurprisingly, most of the local media have sections devoted to the election (let me know if I have missed any):
  • Battle for Alberta – Edmonton Sun
  • Election 2012 – Edmonton Journal
  • Decision Alberta – Global Edmonton
  • Alberta Votes 2012 – CBC
  • Alberta Election 2012 – daveberta.ca
  • Alberta Election – Metro Edmonton
• Here are a few more election-related links to check out: Election Almanac, Alberta Tweets, Get Out The Vote. Also, check out CBC’s Vote Compass. You can learn more about the application here.
• You undoubtedly heard about the unfortunate design of the Wildrose Alliance’s campaign bus last week. On Friday, they posted an updated design to Facebook with this message: “New and improved Wildrose campaign bus! We make mistakes, we fix them, we move on! Ready for the election! ~ Team Wildrose”. That photo has 717 likes, 199 comments, and 75 shares at the moment. Yes, I think social media is having an impact!

• The Edmonton Journal launched its redesign last Tuesday. The new masthead features the Caslon typeface in blue, the same one that was used in 1903 when the paper started. There are a number of layout and content changes as well. The online layout hasn’t changed too much, however.
• The third season of The Unknown Studio is now in the homestretch, and it’s going to go out in style. Adam and Scott are planning to record the finale in front of a live audience! They’re looking for input and ideas, so get in touch and tell them what you think. And be sure to check out S03E12.
• Paula Kirman has been posting photos of rallies and marches in our city for years, an important public service for Edmonton. As she wrote: “After a while, the website became one of the largest historical archives of citizen engagement in Edmonton at such events.” Now she’s taking the next step, and has relaunched her site with a new name – Radical Citizen Media.
• Garry McKenzie has been appointed Regional General Manager for Corus Radio Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, effective April 2. He was most recently the GM of Corus Radio Vancouver.
• Veronica Jubinville started at CTV Edmonton last week. She was previously at CTV Saskatoon, though she is no stranger to Edmonton having completed the Television Broadcast program at NAIT.
• Russell James is still heading to The Bounce, but won’t start until early May.
• Former Edmonton Journal reporter Steve Lillebuen was promoting his new book about Mark Twitchell in Edmonton today.
• And you thought you consumed a lot of news! Interesting profile of Rob Duerr, a CB and Ham radio repairman who is addicted to listening to police scanners.
• This new “Listener Driven Radio” service that Astral Media is deploying to Virgin Radio in April sounds pretty interesting. With it, you’ll be able to provide input and get alerts via SMS, instant messaging, email, and with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
• On Friday evening, Brittney is throwing a party to celebrate her 50,000th tweet! She will be just the 16th person in Edmonton to reach the milestone (at least four of those are bots, actually).

The race is on!

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 is my latest update on local media stuff:

• As I posted in an update to last week’s post, Brittney Le Blanc is the new page six columnist at the Edmonton Sun! Here’s her first column, on Twitter. Her latest takes a look at the politics of tweeting.
• Some very good news for Global in Alberta – Karen Unland is quarterbacking the upcoming provincial election coverage for both Global Edmonton and Global Calgary!
• Speaking of Global Edmonton, they’re looking for three “enthusiastic” Morning News viewers to join the political panel as part of their election coverage. The deadline to apply is Friday, March 23 at 4pm. Rules and regulations are here.
• Avenue Edmonton profiles Rick Harp, host of Edmonton AM on CBC. He has been a great addition to the local media scene!
• Have a passion for public affairs and news programming? CJSR is hiring a news coordinator! The deadline to apply is April 2.
• CTV Edmonton has received a RTDNA award for its coverage of the Slave Lake wildfires last May.
• Do you think we should save Edmonton’s paperboy shacks? I had no idea these existed: “The shacks were officially called “district offices” and were an essential part of The Journal’s home delivery system starting in 1913 with seven paperboys. The boys would go to the shacks right after school and wait for the delivery truck to arrive with that day’s edition.”
• I’m really liking the new clean design for The Unknown Studio!
• GigCity covers Story Engine, the new venture from Todd Babiak and Shawn Ohler.
• Recent tweets from some local sports journalists caught the eye of the Calgary Herald!
• For the last week, the Edmonton Journal has been featuring mastheads of the past, such as the big yellow box. Tomorrow they launch a redesigned look and content changes.
• The Edmonton Commons is looking for “official” commenters, people who are willing to take the time to comment with their real names.
• Mike Daisey has been making news around the world with his bold lies about the state of Apple’s factories in China. There has been some excellent discussion about journalism and truth as a result.
• Is anyone surprised by this anymore?  “In the poorest showing since 1984, advertising revenues at newspapers last year fell 7.3% to $23.9 billion, according to figures quietly published Wednesday by the Newspaper Association of America.”
• The big news here in Canada this week was Bell Canada’s decision to purchase Astral Media for $3.38 billion. The three local radio stations impacted are The Bear 100.3 FM, Virgin Radio 104.9 FM and Team 1260 AM.
• To finish off this week, here is Todd Babiak’s TEDxEdmonton talk on story:

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 is my latest update on local media stuff:

• I was very pleased to see some coverage in the Journal for the Prairie Belles Podcast! The duo behind the podcast, Daneel Irons and Lisa Nicole Grace, celebrated two years of recording this weekend – congrats!
• The Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards are coming up next week, and Edmonton is well-represented. Virgin’s Lochlin Cross and Sonic’s Adam Thompson are both nominated for Music Director of the Year, Sonic’s Garner Andrews is nominated for On Air Talent, and Sonic’s Al Ford and The Bear’s Rob Vavrek are nominated for Program Director of the Year. Also, Virgin, Now, K97, CISN, World FM, 630 CHED, The Bear, and Sonic are up for various Station of the Year awards.
• The Edmonton Journal has received two 2011 National Newspaper Award nominations. Sheila Pratt was recognized for “her investigation of the climate of fear and intimidation in Alberta’s public life” and a team of reporters, editors and photographers were recognized for their coverage of the devastating Slave Like wildfires.
• The Journal and the Calgary Herald are also up for a joint International Newsmedia Marketing Association (INMA) Award for the 2012 World Junior Hockey Championships.
• This is really cool, congratulations Karen! “After a successful pilot project that brought 235 students from nine different classes into the media lab over the past few months, The Journal is ready to create a full-fledged site-based school program for the 2012-13 school year.”
• Last night was the final broadcast at CTV Edmonton for Scott Roberts – he has accepted a position at CTV British Columbia. Best of luck!
• Purchasing a copy of The Journal got a bit more expensive this month. On March 1, the price of a single copy of The Journal rose by 25 cents for the Sunday through Thursday editions.
• I love this photo from Fish: two hearts beat as one.
• Here’s another photo, courtesy of Brittney: the “party” lights at CHED!
• Check out scenes from the March 5 celebration of Avenue’s annual food issue.
• Did anyone join West Edmonton Local in capturing a day in the life of west Edmonton today? I can’t wait to see what they came up with.
• The Journal has a new blog – Fight Game is a boxing blog written by Warren Tasker. Is boxing really that big of a deal in Edmonton?
• Ah, the joy of digging through your blog stats. Heeelloooooooooo Latvia!!!!
• Quick reminder that DemoCamp Edmonton 18 takes place next Wednesday – hope to see you there!
• Also, early heads up about the Best of Analytics conference on Big Data and the Cloud coming up at the end of April.

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.

UPDATE: Brittney is going to be writing a regular page six column in the Edmonton Sun! From her Tumblr: “I’m joining the likes of Graham Hicks, Danny Hooper, and Marty Forbes. I don’t know which one of us has the best hair – probably Marty.” Congrats Brit! Check out her first column here.

Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• The Corus Radio Group was able to raise $1.24 million in last week’s Stollery Children’s Hospital Radiothon. Marty Forbes has that plus a ton of other local radio news in his Sunday column. He notes the surprise announcement that Doug Rutherford is stepping down from Corus at the end of March.
• BlogWest kicks off on Thursday! More than 200 bloggers from across Western Canada are slated to attend. Follow along on Twitter using the hashtag #blogwest.
• Global Edmonton’s Julie Matthews was among the eight Albertans recognized as consumer champions for their work in protecting consumers in 2011. The story she won the Award of Merit for? Julie investigated online romance scams and posed as a potential love interest to expose a romance scam artist! Here is Global’s story about the news.
• Here is Alex Abboud’s latest post as blogger-in-residence at The Journal. He got to sit in on an editorial board meeting with Raj Sherman.
• Elise Stolte is looking for feedback on The Quarters project as she explores the topic. There’s a related assignment up on The Bridge too.
• Nominations for the 30th annual Western Magazine Awards have been extended until March 16. The awards ceremony will be held in Vancouver on June 15.
• To celebrate its 30th anniversary, FAVA is hosting FAVA Fest from March 20-24 and will holding an awards gala as well to recognize outstanding documentaries, music videos, and more. Five awards of excellence and three production grant awards will be presented on the 24th!
• The Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA) and Crossroads Television Systems (CTS) have launched a new mentorship program for individuals to receive hands-on training experience in film and television production. The deadline for applications for the new program is March 30.
• As I mentioned previously, Laurie Callsen will soon be joining Metro Edmonton. Here’s her farewell column for the Camrose Canadian.
• Calgary native Pat Kiernan, who was previously a reporter at CTV Edmonton, is apparently keen to replace Regis Philbin on Live with Regis and Kelly.
• Here’s a bit of history for you – 48 years ago today fish & chips were just 40 cents per order at A&W Drive Ins! There were also stories on the new downtown library, and the last remaining outhouses in the city.
• The March issue of Boyle McCauley News is now online!
• I haven’t found much use for Pinterest yet (mind you I haven’t given it a chance really) but dozens of other Edmontonians have (such as the City itself). I took a look, and it turns out there are a few media organizations on it as well! There’s a quarterly magazine called Urban Infant that has a page, Global Edmonton has a page, and both the Edmonton Journal (launched on January 26) and The Bridge have pages. There are a few journalists with their own pages as well, such as Liane Faulder. Will be interesting to see how use of Pinterest evolves locally!
• Avenue Edmonton celebrated the launch of its annual food issue this evening! In addition to the 25 Best Things to Eat they have a new list for 2012, Edmonton’s Best Restaurants. Corso 32 was named Best Restaurant, while Tres Carnales was named Best New Restaurant.

You can see the rest of my photos from the party here.

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.