Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• On Wednesday evening, Avenue Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2011 were unveiled at the Winspear Centre. Six members of the local media made the list: Tim Adams from CBC, Todd Babiak from the Edmonton Journal, Josh Classen from CTV, Jason Gregor from TEAM 1260, Kari Skelton from up! 99.3, and Ted Halabi publisher of SOS Children’s Safety Magazine. Congratulations to all! Check out the full profiles here.
• It was a big week for milestones at CTV. Daryl McIntyre celebrated 25 years at CFRN on Wednesday. Both Carrie Doll and Josh Classen had nice things to say on Twitter! Also celebrating was Dirk Machtans, who retired on Friday evening after 46 years at CFRN!
• The downtown arena has been front and centre for the last few weeks, with lots of coverage from all media organizations in the city. This has resulted in some interesting discussions about how it should be covered. Most of the mainstream media (Edmonton Journal, CTV, Global, CBC) used a liveblog on their own sites in addition to Twitter for coverage of the public hearing and Council meeting. I understand that not everyone uses Twitter, but I find the liveblogs annoying. I think they unnecessarily fragment discussion of the event. I much prefer the Storify approach taken by iNews880.
• Today the details on the land purchase were made public. I took issue with the way the news was first presented by the Journal and the City. I think the headlines they chose make the deal more confusing, not less. And yes I’m intentionally treating the City as “media” here because I don’t think it is uncommon for their news releases to be the first news people see.
• Another side-effect of the arena coverage – inside baseball. Karen does a good job of writing about the spat between David Staples and Dave Cournoyer in her latest Edmonton New Media Roundup. I’m really not a fan of blocking people on Twitter.
• The first issue of St. Albert’s newest paper went to press on October 19. The St. Albert Leader is edited by Glenn Cook, former editor of Saint City News, and will be published every Thursday. For more, check out MediaMag.
• We have posted the schedule for WordCamp, which takes place on November 18 and 19. Don’t miss it!
• I love that the Edmonton Oilers used Twitter to break the news about Ryan Nugent-Hopkins staying in the NHL. And yes, I’m using the term “news” lightly. I think Ryan Whitney said it best in this tweet: “The Nuge is staying in NHL huh? What a shocker. In other news, sky is blue, grass is green and it’s going to be cold in Edmonton in January.”
• Will we soon be paying for access to the Edmonton Journal online? Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey said that ultimately, paywalls “will be across the chain.”
• CBC announced last Monday that Winnipeg’s Rick Harp is coming to Edmonton to be the new host of Edmonton AM.
• Edmonton seems to be pretty good at stealing folks away from Winnipeg! Nancy Carlson left CTV in that city to become the new late night anchor at Global Edmonton beginning tonight!
• Tripp West, formerly of Calgary’s UP! morning show, is joining The Bounce here in Edmonton. He takes over the evening duties beginning November 7.
• I wish the local media took up the “image” fight for Edmonton more often. The last thing we need to do is trash ourselves when others are doing such a good job of it, like enRoute magazine while recognizing Corso 32: “That kind of determination comes in useful when launching a spunky start-up in the slowly rejuvenating downtown core, which after dark looks not unlike Night of the Living Dead.”
• The full list of winners in the 2011 Canadian Online Publishing Awards is up. The Edmonton Journal picked up a bunch of awards.
• Congratulations to Carol Ann Guay, who stepped into the co-anchor role alongside Gord Steinke tonight on Global.

• I was on CTV News at 5pm last week to discuss Twitter and the arena meetings, and I got to play with the SMART board in their new set:

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!

It has been a few weeks since my last update, so there’s a few older items in this week’s entry. Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• Today marked the start of CTV Morning Live here in Edmonton. It airs weekday mornings from 5:30am until 9:00am. Did you watch this morning? There’s a thread on C2E about it.
• Speaking of CTV Edmonton, you may have noticed that they have a new set! And unlike Global’s, it is not at all green.
• The Edmonton Journal has launched The Bridge, a new community newsroom section of the website where readers can share information. Every day there will be new assignments, and you can submit both content and ideas. There’s lots of work to be done yet – “it’s very much a work in progress, but we are eager to get started.” We’ll see how it goes, but I was hoping for something more akin to The Guardian’s Newslist.
• The Edmonton Sun’s Christmas Charity Auction kicks off at 9:00am tomorrow.
• CJSR’s annual FunDrive runs from October 26 through November 5. There’s a FunDrive concert taking place at Wunderbar on November 3. Here’s a great piece on “the Weirdest Radio Station in Edmonton” by Mike Ross.
• Well that didn’t take long – YegNews has ceased production. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s easy to produce quality content on a regular basis. I hope Alain and the others behind it move on to bigger and better things!
• Here is Karen’s latest Edmonton New Media Roundup. Among other gems, she points out Journal sports columnist John MacKinnon’s extremely rude comment on Zoe Todd’s post about the arena issue.
• Also: check out Karen’s post on the Journal’s Media Lab.
• I love it when people catch stuff like this. On October15, an article in the Edmonton Journal referred to Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins as “the brat pack”. Kind of like how this article in the Edmonton Journal back on September 30, 2007 referred to Andrew Cogliano, Sam Gagner, and Robert Nilsson as “the brat pack”. I think Scott Lepp said it best: “I look forward to the 2014 version.”
• Sharon and I were talking about this the other day while watching the Oilers on TV – “Dear CBC, it is time you updated your Edmonton footage.”
• A reminder that the Citizen Journalism Workshop for Writers is taking place on Saturday.
• Another upcoming event to be aware of: WordCamp Edmonton is happening on November 18 and 19. Tickets are just $40. “WordCamp is a gathering of all things WordPress…”
• If you have watched any Oilers games this year, you’ll know that Oil Change is back. The documentary series, produced by Aquila Productions, airs on both Citytv and Sportsnet.
• On October 5, the Lieutenant Governor’s Circle on Mental Health and Addiction was introduced. Among those in the Circle is longtime Edmonton Journal columnist Scott McKeen.
• Some sad news earlier this month – Bobby Ng, a local radio personality best known as drive-home host on CHQT, died after a battle with cancer. You can read more about Ng and his career on the Edmonton Broadcasters’ Colleagues Remembered page.
• Check out Mark Iocchelli’s new photo blog, featuring beautiful shots of Edmonton!
• Telus is among Microsoft’s launch partners for the roll out of TV on Xbox LIVE (they already had support for the Xbox 360). Will be interesting to see the evolution of that service.
• Looks like Adam McKale is more than just a radio guy – he’s now the Stella Artois Prairies Draughtmaster as well!
• After a relatively short stint at Global Edmonton, Christina Salvo has moved on to KABC in Los Angeles. MediaMag has a good roundup of other local media moves.
• According to the latest Edmonton Journal monthly newsletter, they reach 54% of the market. I wonder who they mean by this: “Edmonton’s other local daily paid newspaper…” #sarcasm
• We have moved the date for MediaCamp Edmonton 2 slightly – it will now take place on February 4.
• I think Sharon and I were the only new media types at The Harvest Room tonight for the Media Partners dinner to re-launch The Harvest Room. I wonder how many of these media dinners happen throughout the year? And if the restaurants actually get any value from them?

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!

Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• Meshwest is happening tomorrow! Stay tuned to #meshwest for updates.
• The biggest media news of the week was probably the PC Leadership vote. I was up late that night with a lot of other people, watching the results come in and enjoying the discussion on Twitter. I agree that it took a ridiculously long time for the results to be finalized, but it bothers me that some of the mainstream media keep complaining about it. In a different scenario they’d be jumping up and down about how these kinds of stories would not be covered if the mainstream media no longer existed or was diminished, because you can’t count on social media users to go and sit through the four or five hour process. To say nothing of the fact that the complaining reflects archaic distribution mechanisms more than it does any problem with the actual vote process.
• Metro Edmonton reports that it now reaches 71,600 readers daily and 205,100 weekly in the greater Edmonton area, an increase of 4% daily and 20% weekly over the 2009-2010 numbers.
• Congratulations to the Edmonton Journal, recognized with six nominations for the 2011 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The awards will be presented in Toronto on October 24. Maybe I should enter next year…
• OMNI is set to become Canada’s first national multi-language broadcaster to move beyond French and English. Stories filed from Edmonton and Calgary will “include national significance.”
• Ara Adonian will be taking over the PM Drive on The Bounce starting in November. Speculation has Jake Ryan moving to Virgin Radio.
• Gordon Klassen has been named Sales Manager for 105.9 Shine FM and AM 930 The Light here in Edmonton.
• Could local radio find its way back to Leduc? Mark Tamagi is behind the push to get Leduc One FM Radio approved.
• In Karen’s latest Edmonton New Media Roundup, she talks about how lots is happening in Edmonton. There’s so much going on, and we need a better way to tell everyone.
• As Karen pointed out, a new online magazine called KikkiPlanet launched this week. The launch party video features a number of familiar faces from Edmonton’s new media scene:

• I’m not sure how long these have been around, but I only just noticed the new Sum Media stands around town. This one, at the Italian Centre Shop in the southside, features the Examiner, 24 Hours, has Italian Centre branding, and has room for them to make other newspapers available as well. I like it. The newspaper area is cleaner, and Sun Media benefits with the prominent branding.

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!

Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• CTV Edmonton has announced that CTV Morning Live will debut on October 17. The new show will air weekday mornings from 5:30am until 9:00am, and features Rob Williams, Dez Melenka, Craig Larkins, and Melissa Dominelli.
• CBC announced “significant new initiatives” across the country today. In Edmonton, new weekend news programming will be introduced next year.
• Thanks to a national reorganization, Omni Television has closed its Edmonton studio as of September 15. Six employees were laid off, six are moving to Rogers Media in Toronto, and most the rest will shift to Citytv Edmonton.
• Sandra Sperounes reports that Arlo Maverick is signing off after 11 years as the host of CJSR’s The Urban Hang Suite. She also notes that Aaron Levin, another former CJSR alumnus and founder of weirdcanada.com, is heading east to Toronto.
• Here is Karen’s latest Edmonton New Media Roundup. She has a great update on West Edmonton Local, now that her class has taken over the site. Looking forward to its continued evolution!
• Jeff Samsonow is now blogging here, and I have to say he looked pretty good on Alberta Primetime’s This Week panel too.
• There are a number of interesting career opportunities listed at the CPRS Edmonton site, including a number of communications positions at the City of Edmonton.
• Not to be outdone by Global, the Edmonton Journal is hosting a PC Leadership Debate of its own, on September 27 (tomorrow).
• Interesting thread on Hot 107, which claims it is now “selected as a favourite by more 18-44 year-old adults than any other radio station” in Edmonton. As is pointed out in the thread, President & GM John Yerxa has opted out of participating in the PPMs that all other radio stations take part in, so the results are based on their own Leger survey.
• Hans Dys is the featured speaker at the Fall Luncheon of the Edmonton Broadcasters Club, taking place on October 19. He will focus on the Edmonton broadcasting enterprises of the late Dr. Charles Allard.
• I’m not sure when he started doing these, but I think Josh Classen’s WeatherBlast videos are smart. Here’s the update from today:

• CIRA, the organization responsible for looking after .ca, is considering implementing French characters in domains.
• Digital Alberta is launching a new website and new programs tomorrow at D’Lish.
• I really liked this “infographic” on EIA in the Edmonton Sun:

• Here is the Edmonton Journal’s Community Advisory Board. I’m in such great company! At our first meeting last week, Postmedia’s Director of Social Media Alex Blonski showed us The Bridge, the forthcoming community news site:

• Planning is well underway for MediaCamp Edmonton 2, but we need your input. Fill out our online survey to help us determine what the day should look like. Thanks in advance, and save the date – January 28, 2012!
• mesh west is making a stop in Edmonton next Tuesday, October 4. I’m on a panel about open data, and am looking forward to the other sessions as well. See you there!

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!

Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• Global Edmonton has a social media roundup of the PC Leadership candidates. And they’re hosting a debate between the three remaining candidates on September 28, starting at 6:30pm.
• Here is Karen’s latest Edmonton New Media Roundup. As she notes, Jeff is now blogging at his own site.
• Karen is leading a workshop on citizen journalism at the Edmonton Journal, scheduled for the morning of October 29.
• CBC Edmonton is holding an open house at its City Centre studios on October 1st from noon until 5pm.
• Also on October 1 – the Jerry Forbes Centre for Community Spirit is hosting fundraiser called the 2011 Mardi Gras Dinner & Auction.
• The 2011 University of Alberta Alumni Recognition Awards are coming up this week, and former Edmonton meteorologist Claire Martin is one of the five Distinguished Alumni Award recipients.
• In case you missed it: the City of Edmonton Book Prize has been renamed to honour Robert Kroetsch (PDF).
• Marilyn has a good roundup of local media moves. She points out that Merge Magazine’s comeback was short-lived.
• Rogers Radio is launching a new national countdown show called “HitStorm”. You can hear it on 91.7 The Bounce.
• Here’s a clip from CTV Edmonton explaining CKUA’s move down Jasper Avenue to the rebuilt Alberta Hotel:

• I thought Karen (pictured below with Clay Shirky in the background) did a fantastic job at Pecha Kucha Night 11, talking about what journalism needs now. She told journalists to “french kiss change” and to “hump change’s leg”. Here’s my recap, in case you missed it.

• Tonight was the opening reception for the 2011 GoMedia Canada Conference at the Art Gallery of Alberta. This is the first time Edmonton has hosted the event. More than 120 travel journalists are attending and will get the next few days to experience Edmonton and the capital region.

• Tomorrow is the first meeting for The Journal’s new Community Advisory Board. Looking forward to it! Members include myself, Tamara Stecyk, Andrew Otway, Dianne Allen, Valerie Spink, Karen Lynch, Todd Crawshaw, and Samuel Brooks. UPDATE: The full list of members is 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!

Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• CTV Edmonton launched its expanded local news coverage today with the addition of CTV News At Five and CTV News at 5:30. Carrie Doll anchors the 5pm newscast while Daryl McIntyre anchors the 5:30pm newscast.
• The St. Albert Gazette is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and they’ve posted a digital version of the first ever edition for you to check out.
• Also celebrating an anniversary is Avenue Edmonton – the September issue is the 5th anniversary edition (you can see the digital version here). They have a special section that looks at how Edmonton has evolved since 2006. Their list of the “five most entertaining battles of the last five years” contains three media-related battles: “Vue Weekly vs. See Magazine”, “Ed Stelmach vs. Dave Cournoyer”, and “Chris & Karleena Perry vs. Everyone Else” (they’re the couple that wrote a letter in the St. Albert Gazette arguing against a Habitat for Humanity project).
• Congratulations to Wade Sorochan – he’s the new host of Edmonton This Week. Christopher Webster at the City did a good interview with him.
• Too bad I missed this: Sonic 102.9 did a tour on Sunday for #yegmusicclub.
• Have you checked out Metro Edmonton’s new Live Wire? It’s “an opportunity for readers to contribute to the city’s #1 free daily news source and one of the fastest growing newspapers in Canada.” Basically they mention a few stories they’re working on, and you email any input you have to the managing editor.
• The Bear’s controversial “Win A Wife” contest attracted all sorts of coverage – even the Huffington Post wrote about it. I’ll give Gig City’s Mike Ross the last word on this one: “The real winner in all this is the Bear radio station, which has attracted a storm of attention over this contest – which is certainly in the running for the most outrageous and offensive local radio station stunt ever. Yay, Edmonton.”
• Here’s a nice write-up on Rawlco, which according to the latest PPM radio ratings has the second ranked station, Now! 102.3. Combined with Up! 99.3, the company’s share of the local market is 17.0, third to Corus’ four stations at 25.2 and Newcap’s three stations at 17.8.
• Here’s another media write-up in the Journal, on TSN’s Natasha Staniszewski. As the article notes, Edmonton is “fertile ground for TSN when it comes to talent,” with Bryan Mudryk, Gord Miller, Ryan Rishaug, and Darren Dutchyshen all spending time here early in their careers.
• In case you missed it: here’s my interview with Jeff & Sally on the end of the edmontonian, and here’s my look at the statistics the site accumulated over its run.
• CityTV’s new show Canada’s Got Talent will be in town starting on Wednesday for three days of auditions. The lineup starts at 6am at the Mayfield Inn & Suites.
• According to the Edmonton Journal’s September 2011 newsletter, QR codes in the paper have been scanned “close to 35,000 times” since the June 2010 launch, which I wrote about here.
• The presenters for Wednesday’s Pecha Kucha Night 11 have been announced. The lineup looks great, but I’m particularly looking forward to David Papp’s #BirdCam Social Media Experiment and Karen Unland’s talk titled “What Journalism Needs Now.” While you’re waiting, check out Karen’s latest Edmonton New Media Roundup.
• Congratulations to Edmonton’s own City and Baby, named to the top spot in Alberta’s Best Mama Bloggers! Edmonton blogs accounted for 7 of the top 10 blogs.
• Here’s a nice big write-up on Marty Forbes. He’s certainly a busy guy! Here is his latest column on our busy media landscape.
• On September 7, Barb Wilkinson wrote in the Journal about the new community newsroom, slated to launch next week. She wrote: “Later this month, we’ll announce the name, and tell you who will make up the local advisory board that will help us shape this project. We also expect to launch the community newsroom pilot site.” Too bad the name was actually announced the day before that article! It’ll be called The Bridge, and I am happy to have been selected to take part.
• Via Sharon, here is Arthur S. Brisbane’s interview with Jill Abramson, the first woman to serve as top editor of The New York Times since the paper’s founding in 1851.

Here’s a recap video of Pecha Kucha 10, courtesy of Telus TV:

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!

Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• The biggest media news of the week is also the saddest: Jeff & Sally have decided that September 9 will be the last day for the edmontonian. They wrote: “Our heads are bursting with ideas and schemes (seriously, call the head hospital!) and this will let us make space for new things to come our way.” In other words, we haven’t seen the last of Jeff & Sally (thankfully). Here’s their first “look back” post. I’ll have more on this next week, and I can’t wait to see all of the tributes that are created over the next while. The outpouring of support today has been great to see.
• Looking to get your feet wet with podcasting? The Unknown Studio is looking for contributors. Simply pitch your segment idea by September 30 and you could be a regular feature on the show!
• It’s that time of year! Karen looks at education in her latest Edmonton New Media Roundup.
• Erin Despas did an interview with Julie Matthews, Global Edmonton’s Trouble Shooter. “With sixteen years of experience in journalism, the thirty-five year old journalist has been with Global Edmonton for seven and a half years. Matthews has no plans currently to leave her job.”
• I discovered recently that Avenue Edmonton’s Omar Mouallem also contributes to the AOL Travel Canada blog! Cool to see him talking up Edmonton beyond our city’s borders.
• I quite like the Government of Alberta’s Newsroom page. Simple, but clear and with all the relevant links and information.
• If you’re a U of A student interested in media, swing by the Gateway offices in SUB – they’re looking for volunteers. They’re also looking for help with their weekly podcast.
• Oil Sands Truth is an interesting site from a media perspective. It both aggregates and curates recent news, data, maps, photos, audio, and video. Does anyone know of a good site that does the same thing with the opposite side of the story?
• This note about a new book called The Man in Blue Pajamas: Prison Memoir in the Form of a Novel came up in one of my searches: “Kurdish poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji endured imprisonment and torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein because of his outspoken writings. After emigrating to Canada in the 1990s, Barzanji, who was named Edmonton’s first writer-in-exile in 2007, finally tells his story.” Turns out Jalal is on Twitter!
• Nice shout out to “the social media rockstars of #yeg” from Jeremy Bibaud, who recently left the United Way after four and a half years. I think he did some great work to bring that organization up-to-speed with Twitter, Facebook, and all of the other tools they have started using, not to mention the new website! Best of luck Jeremy!
• Four members of the local media participated in a pizza eating contest on Sunday at the Viva Italia Viva Edmonton festival. Citytv’s Stacey Brotzel, the griff’s Jenny Feniak, OMNI’s Kit Koon, and SONiC 102.9’s Brandy Taylor all competed to see who could chow down the most pizza in five minutes. Brandy came away with the victory in a tiebreaker round against Kit, but no one left empty-handed: they got to take the pizza they didn’t eat with them!

Brandy Taylor, Kit Koon, Jenny Feniak, Stacey Brotzel

The media table outside the media room at City Hall.

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

Just a quick mention: we had a very productive MediaCamp Edmonton planning session tonight, and we expect to share more on that in the coming weeks!

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

Another week off! Can you tell it’s summer? Here is my latest update on local media stuff:

• Everyone was covering today’s sad news that NDP leader Jack Layton had died.
• As reported previously, ACCESS is being rebranded as CTV Two. The changeover is scheduled to take place on August 29.
• In Karen’s latest Edmonton New Media Roundup she takes a look at local podcasts. Let her know which are your favorites! I’m glad to see there are a few locals finding success with podcasting. Maybe of these days I’ll get back into it.
• Don’t miss The Unknown Studio’s episode on Festival City.
• Congrats to local men’s magazine Shave on scoring a partnership with Howzit MSN.
• Analog television broadcasting will officially be out of fashion on September 1, but Shaw says analog signals will be around in Edmonton for quite a while.
• The recipients of the inaugural CTV Citizen Of The Year Award are: Mr. Issa Kamara, and Mr. Amson Saintime. The award was created by CTV Edmonton in partnership with the Edmonton Heritage Festival Association.
• From the Edmonton Examiner: “Competition over young music fans is heating up on Edmonton’s FM radio dial.”
• Old news perhaps but I only mentioned part of it in my last update: The Edmonton Oilers and Corus Radio reached a new host broadcaster agreement that will last through the 2013/2014 season. Corus has broadcast every Oilers game since 1995.
• Speaking of local radio, Marty Forbes has the scene covered.
• Again, I’m late with this one but will mention it anyway – CJSR is looking for DJ’s, Reporters, Producers, & Designers!
• I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy this article at Slate. “According to media scholar Brendan R. Watson, bloggers writing about local public affairs do not rely primarily on established media for most of their source material.” I certainly try to link to as many original sources as possible.
• As I mentioned yesterday, the Edmonton Police Service recently launched a series of weekly videos called the Community Crime Update. Stay tuned for new episodes.
• I can’t seem to find anything online about this, but an ad in the Journal congratulated Marta Gold on winning the Excellence in Features Writing 2011 award from the Society for Features Journalism. The paper itself also received some kudos, as it was one of North America’s top 15 newspapers to earn “Best Features Section”.
• CTV’s Fall Preview Tour is travelling across Canada right now, and will be in Edmonton at City Centre Mall from September 15-17.
• In case you missed it: Sandra Sperounes wrote about the local edition of BalconyTV a few weeks ago. Hosted by Cheryl Wiwat and Jon McLellan, the concept was brought to Edmonton by Sean Martell.
• Here’s the latest edition of BalconyTV Edmonton:

I want to finish by highlighting a couple of posts from the edmontonian. If you don’t read their daily headlines, you’re missing out. Here’s a great discussion from August 10:

Newsrooms could also have mentioned to their audiences the Journal had a story about a late-night bus on Whyte, and worked on their own stories the rest of the day. Instead, they assigned reporters, editors, producers, video editors, and camera operators to produce the same story for Tuesday night and Wednesday.

One of the topics I love to rant about. Those same newsrooms will in the same breath complain to you about how times are tough and resources are stretched.

Here’s another great one from August 17:

The race to get the story into the news machine first damages everyone involved. It hurts the credibility of the media outlets who commonly treat factual inaccuracies as no big deal, and it fails the citizens who trust these outlets for information that shapes their reactions to the world around them. Reporting the news is a tremendous responsibility, and not just a game of  ‘who had what story first.’

Couldn’t have said it better myself. That’s why I linked!

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!