Media Monday Edmonton: Update #337

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Nancy Carlson is the new producer and host of CBC Edmonton News at 6. “Joining the CBC Edmonton team is an exciting move for me,” she said. “I’m looking forward to new challenges and reaching milestones with the news team on all platforms.”
The latest radio ratings from Numeris, covering the period Nov. 26, 2018 to Feb. 24, 2019, place 96.3 The Breeze in first place with a 9.5% share. That’s encouraging news for CKRA-FM which adopted the Breeze format on Dec. 26, 2018 but may also reflect the fact that the station played Christmas Music for the first month of the ratings period.
Jamie Malbeuf has joined CBC Edmonton this month. She was previously at CBC North in Yellowknife.
Oliver Roeder, a data journalist at FiveThirtyEight, was in Edmonton last week to discuss data journalism. Here’s my Twitter thread from his talk.
The fifth season of APTN’s CAUTION: May Contain Nuts, which premiered on Friday, features 360-degree film technology to enable six virtual reality sketches.

Mayor Don Iveson speaks to the media at the Smart Cities Challenge event

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In a new podcast with Recode Media, Overtime CEO Dan Porter says the conventional wisdom in today’s media industry — that it’s too risky to build a new business on top of a platform like Instagram or Snapchat — is wrong.
Spirited Media, which had launched three city-centered news sites, is selling those sites and pivoting to consulting.
Apparently the average Netflix subscriber spends two hours a day on the service. Most people watch on TV and multiple devices, rather than on mobile devices only.
From Ken Jennings in the New York Times: “Carson and Cronkite are long gone, but Alex Trebek remains, the last of the old-school broadcasters who once visited us every night as a matter of ritual.”
CJR’s Alex Pareene goes behind the behind-the-story stories. “I came to learn that the genre has a few, easily categorized variations, each intended for a very specific audience.”

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Media Monday Edmonton: Update #336

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Jason Purcell and Matthew Stepanic are hoping to launch Glass Bookshop in November 2019 in The Quarters. “Glass Bookshop will be part bookstore, part wine bar, and all community space, where readers and writers can gather for readings, launches, and conversation,” reads the Indiegogo campaign.
Global Edmonton’s Quinn Ohler is the recipient of this year’s Rising Star aware from Lethbridge College. “I’m humbled. I thought maybe they called the wrong person when they told me,” Ohler said.
Mark Drelich, former with NOW! 102.3 FM, and Chelsea Bird, formerly with 104.9 Virgin Radio, are house guests on season 7 of Big Brother Canada which premieres on March 6.
Red Deer-based Todayville recently launched a Twitter account for Todayville Edmonton.
The Edmonton Public Library podcast Overdue Finds was named Outstanding Branded Series at the Canadian Podcast Awards.

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Luminary has launched with nearly $100 million in funding, a lineup of big stars, and a plan to build a subscription-based company like Netflix but for podcasts.
“Here’s the real problem: I could listen to podcasts, on double speed, for every waking minute of my week and still not come close to chipping away at the stack of all of the episodes piling up in my queue.” Mashable writer Marcus Gilmer says, “I’m giving up podcasts to save my brain and soul from overload.”
Last week I heard about the Momo hoax for the first time when a local TV journalist contacted me for comment. From Nieman Journalism Lab: How local TV news stations are playing a major (and enthusiastic) role in spreading the Momo hoax.
I enjoyed this interview with Brian McCullough of the Internet History Podcast. “The book may’ve been the final product, but the podcast turned into a force in its own right.”
From The New Yorker: The Making of the Fox News White House

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Media Monday Edmonton: Update #335

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The Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA) has announced the finalists for the 2018-19 Alberta Magazine Awards. The awards gala will be hosted by Todd Babiak at the 24th annual Alberta Magazines Conference on April 4 in Calgary.
Daze Magazine’s raised $4,230 in its Kickstarter campaign from 101 backers. Fish Griwkowsky featured the upstart publication recently. “The Daze staff is speaking with investors, and planning live fundraiser events that are already all but confirmed.”
Royal Bison has launched a podcast about makers in and around Edmonton called Makers Moment. The first episode features Molly McMahon of Stranger Design.
UrbanYEG presents InstaMeet 19 on March 2 at the Alberta Legislature.
The Misery Beat: The Ethics of Reporting on Crime and Human Suffering features Jana Pruden. It takes place on March 4 at the TELUS Centre.

Photo by Don Voaklander

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From Chartable: Here’s why we’re entering the Golden Age of Podcasts, in 10 graphs.
The Knight Foundation is committing $300 million over five years to organizations including the American Journalism Project, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and ProPublica.
Philanthropy is becoming a critical funding source for journalism. Last year alone, “57 percent of nonprofit news’ revenue came from foundations, a sizable chunk in a field with almost $350 million in total annual revenue among 200 organizations.”
According to eMarketer, digital ad spending in the US will surpass traditional ad spending this year. “Also for the first time, the combined share of the duopoly (Google and Facebook) will drop, even as their revenues grow.” That’s thanks to Amazon, “which continues to take share from just about everyone.”
We all know that media jobs are disappearing. “But new data from LinkedIn shows that the plight of journalists may not be that bad — if you’re willing to consider a broader definition of what constitutes “journalism” and its para-industries,” says Recode.

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Media Monday Edmonton: Update #334

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“It’s a blessing to be able to bring people the news over the airwaves,” tweeted Global News Radio 880 Edmonton host Adam Brilz on World Radio Day. “I also can’t forget thanking my dad for inspiring me to follow this career,” he added. CISN Country 103.9 FM’s Andrea Taylor shared a photo of her very first on-air shift from Dec. 24, 2001 with Power 92.
The Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters (ACWS) is calling on police to name victims of domestic homicide. Executive Director Jan Reimer “said that in the coming months, the ACWS will reach out to shelter directors, the police, survivors and the media to look at developing best practices when it comes to releasing names.”
In episode 3 of The Calgarian hosted by Taylor Lambert, Jason Markusoff talked about how he ended up at the Edmonton Journal in 2003. “I really enjoyed working at the Journal, it was a great newsroom,” he said. Markusoff worked there for five years and for a time shared a desk with former Journal columnist Paula Simons who he called “one of my top journalistic mentors.”
Calder Bateman shared an update on its merger with ZGM this week. “Over the past few months, our combined leadership team has been working on our integration—culminating yesterday with Calder Bateman fully merging under the ZGM banner.”
Here is the latest Alberta Podcast Network Roundup. “You’ll find lots of love in this week’s roundup, as befits a week that included Valentine’s Day.”

MP Randy Boissonnault speaking to CBC Edmonton

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A new independent report on the future of the British media recommends direct funding for public-interest news outlets and the creation of a new institute of public interest news.
OpenAI’s new algorithm GPT-2 can write articles with impressive results. “Give it a fake headline, and it’ll write the rest of the article, complete with fake quotations and statistics.”
“To subject the distribution of your work to the workings of the market is unreasonable — if you think your work matters, that is.” The Outlines argues that journalism should be free.
From New York magazine: Can Subscriptions Save All Media Companies, or Just the New York Times?
If you were hoping the 91st Academy Awards would be shorter, you’re out of luck. With just over a week to go, officials from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences told producer Donna Gigliotti “that they were bowing to pressure and abandoning their plan to shorten the ceremony by awarding four trophies during commercial breaks, with the winning moments being edited and aired later in the show.”

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Media Monday Edmonton: Update #333

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This year Boyle McCauley News is celebrating its 40th anniversary. In an interview with CBC Edmonton, editor Paula Kirman says the non-profit newspaper faces “increasing operational costs” and is looking at “all aspects” of how to raise funds. “You just have to be creative in today’s market.” A celebration gala & fundraiser on Saturday, March 9.
All of Great West Newspapers’ 19 Alberta titles, including Edmonton Prime Times, are now members of the National NewsMedia Council of Canada.
Tuesday, Feb. 6 was National Weatherperson’s Day, so Global Edmonton’s Phil Darlington spoke with Lesley MacDonald about what it was like to work with Bill Matheson.
Paper Leaf Design was ranked #12 in Canada in the Design category of Clutch.co’s list of the top agencies in the digital services sector. Other local firms on the list include Lift Interactive, Top Draw, ThinkTANK, and Pixel Army.
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here are some valentines for journalists.

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Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, has been accused of plagiarism in her new book Merchants of Truth. In an email to CJR’s Mathew Ingram, she said “the language is too close in some cases and should have been cited as quotations in the text. This, too, will be fixed. I wouldn’t want even a misplaced comma.”
Patch “may represent the future of local news” says Recode, now that the company is profitable.
From NiemanLab: Here’s where your new readers are going to come from in 2019
“As reporters and editors find themselves the victims of layoffs at digital publishers and traditional newspaper chains alike, journalism generated by machine is on the rise,” writes Jaclyn Peiser in the New York Times.
Joe Schlesinger, described by CBC as “one of Canada’s most beloved and respected journalists,” has died at the age of 90.

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Media Monday Edmonton: Update #332

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Dale McFee was sworn in as Edmonton’s 23rd police chief on Friday at City Hall. During his remarks, McFee said one of his first orders of business will be to launch an independent review into the EPS practice of not naming homicide victims.
“Every weekday morning at Kameyosek school in Edmonton, young students are bustling behind the scenes of their very own daily TV news show.” The broadcast club was started in 2015 by principal Hector Pothier.
With a little over two weeks to go, Daze Magazine has raised $1,500 of its $2,200 goal.
Bon VUEage: A celebreation of the run of Vue Weekly will take place on Feb. 8 at The Aviary.
IABC Edmonton and CPRS Edmonton present Communication Ethics in An Information Age on Feb. 13 at the Westin Edmonton.

Honourable Jim Prentice, Alberta’s 16th Premier, Recognized with Legislature Portrait, photo by Premier of Alberta

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The Washington Post aired a $5.2 million Super Bowl commercial “paying tribute to the importance of journalism and journalists throughout history and today.” Watch the ad narrated by Tom Hanks here.
Facebook turns 15 today and to celebrate NiemanLab has collected the 10 most important moments in Facebook’s not-so-great relationship with the news industry.
Newseum has announced it will close at the end of 2019 because “operating costs had proven to be unsustainable.” I visited the museum in 2009.
The Economist recently launched its new current affairs podcast called The Intelligence and is “taking a series of steps to bring more emotion to its brand after research revealed that it was seen as lacking in humanity and accessibility.”
The Associated Press says it is “enabling local news coverage on hard-hitting topics at a really massive scale.” Last year the AP saw 1,400 downloads from 300 local newsrooms on its data.world platform.

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Media Monday Edmonton: Update #331

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Canadian Journalism Innovators is a new initiative that is “focused on tackling three of the biggest challenges facing the industry: a lack of money, innovation and diversity.” Taproot Edmonton is proud to be participating in this effort.
A group of former Vue Weekly editors have launched a Kickstarter for Daze Magazine. They soft-launched the website earlier this month.
Marty Forbes is featured in Episode 60 of the City of Champions podcast.
IABC Edmonton presents Stories Well Told With Carrie Doll on Jan. 30 at 9910.
Let’s Find Out – How Nature Shapes Us, presented by Taproot Edmonton, takes place on Feb. 9.

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And here is some non-local media news that I found interesting this week:

A Swiss news startup called Republik, which raised $2.4 million back in 2017, has spent more than $6.5 million since inception. They admit that spending got out of control, but their willingness to experiment is still instructive.
From NiemanLab: BuzzFeed laid off its Director of Quizzes because lots of people are willing to make quizzes for free
Ten Years Ago, Almost Everyone in Media Got Fired. “In a strange way, it may actually have been worse to be gainfully employed, because while the rest of us actually knew where we stood, the working stiffs quickly became BFFs with fear itself.”
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism has published a report called Blockchain in Journalism. They outline three key use cases: auditable database solutions, cryptocurrency-based business models, and access to public data secured in blockchain-based file systems.
Subscriptions to the 25 largest American newspapers saw “more-than-substantial price hikes” between 2008 and 2016. “Seven-day home delivery price more than doubled, and weekday single-copy price tripled.”

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Media Monday Edmonton: Update #330

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The 20th annual Corus Radiothon took place last week raising a total of $1,564,455 for the Stollery Children’s Hospital, the highest two-day total since the event began in 1999. The annual radiothon has raised more than $23 million over the last 20 years.
Long-time Alberta broadcaster Peter Watts died in Calgary on Friday morning at the age of 68. In a statement, Watts’ family said he “peacefully passed away.” Watts began his career at CBC Edmonton in 1976.
After 21 seasons with the Edmonton Eskimos, PA announcer Al Stafford is leaving to become the PA announcer with the Edmonton Oilers. “Thanks for your years of service to the Edmonton Eskimos and all the best calling the @EdmontonOilers!” tweeted the Eskimos.
Here is the latest Alberta Podcast Network Roundup. They have added Shaw Business as a new sponsor.
Via Vintage Edmonton, here’s a 630 CHED Aircheck from 1977 featuring Wes Mongomery, Jerry Forbes, Stan Ravendahl, Eddie Keen, Randy Kilburn, Ken Conners, Barry Wall, Don Kennedy, Chuck Chandler, Bob Layton, C.R. Nichols and Clifford Oginski.

Premier speaks at Alberta Industrial Heartland Conference, photo by Premier of Alberta

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Facebook has announced it is spending $300 million over the next three years on news partnerships and programming, with an emphasis on local.
Phillip Smith, who has launched a series of journalism entrepreneurship bootcamps, argues that journalism innovation has a pipeline problem. “The same people getting support today are the people that have always had support, and those are typically people who are financially able to take a risk on a full-time academic program or a full-time startup attempt — basically, the status quo, just with smaller budgets.”
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has shared its 2019 Trends and Predictions report. They predict ongoing trends “are likely to lead to the biggest wave of journalistic lay-offs in years – weakening further the ability of publishers to hold populist politicians and powerful business leaders to account.”
Last year, someone gave the City of Calgary an advance copy of a column written by the Calgary Sun’s Rick Bell. But it wasn’t Bell or his editor.
BuzzFeed says its story about Donald Trump directing Michael Cohen to lie to Congress was reviewed by at least three editors and that they’re sticking by it, even though Robert Mueller’s office took the “extraordinary step” of issuing a statement challenging the story’s accuracy.

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Media Monday Edmonton: Update #329

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CJSR celebrated its 35th anniversay on Jan. 7. In a tweet marking the occasion, the station said “we’ve been challenging the radio status quo ever since.”
Canadian Journalists of Colour is “a supportive community of BIPOC folks working in the media industry across Canada.” It launched in late October, championed by Anita Li, Director of Communities at The Discourse. Anya Zoledziowski leads the local chapter.
Jonny Wakefield has taken over Postmedia’s local court bureau. “I’ll be covering interesting cases as well as justice issues more broadly,” he tweeted.
The Alberta Podcast Network has refreshed its website for the new year. Here is the latest roundup of local podcasts. APN president Karen Unland shared some tips on how to find a great podcast for New Trail.
Chelsea Klukas, a product design manager at Facebook, has been announced as the keynote speaker for iMEDIA 2019. Title Beyond Screens: Design and Marketing of the Future, the keynote “will explore formats that are already emerging and will become increasingly relevant in the future including voice, biometrics, and artificial intelligence.”

Photo by Don Voaklander

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WordPress.com and the News Revenue Hub have announced Newspack, a new toolkit for small and mid-sized publishers to streamline their tech.
From Motherboard: The Rise and Demise of RSS.
Editor Gabriel Snyder says journalism doesn’t fit well in a funnel. But: “I believe subscriptions and memberships are a glint of good news in an otherwise troubled media landscape.”
Stephen King complained on Twitter about The Portland Press Herald’s decision to stop publishing regional book reviews. The paper “promptly responded with a challenge: If Mr. King could get his followers to buy 100 digital subscriptions, it would bring back the local reviews.” It doubled that in 48 hours.
Another streaming service is coming in 2020: NBCUniversal is planning to launch its own standalone service.

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Media Monday Edmonton: Update #328

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CKRA-FM returned from its all-Christmas-music format on Dec. 26 with a new name: 96.3 The Breeze. The format is not unique to Edmonton, with Vancouver’s CHLG-FM making the switch to The Breeze last month.
Larry Donohue retired as CFCW’s Music Director on Dec. 21 after 50 years in radio, 35 of them with CFCW. “On Larry’s last day country’s shining star Brett Kissel came into the station and serenaded Larry with the song “The Cowboy Rides Away” and then shared with the staff how much Larry’s support propelled his career by playing his music on CFCW,” reports Marty Forbes. CFCW drive host AJ Keller has taken over the Music Director responsibilities.
A trailer has been released for Boyle McCauley News: 40 Years – The Little Community Newspaper That Could. The film will be released in March.
News from the Alberta Podcast Network: The Read-Along and OtherWise are the newest members and six member podcasts have been nominated for Canadian Podcast Awards. Here is the latest APN roundup.
Linda Hoang has shared some best practices for businesses looking to work with social media influencers. “When both sides treat influencer requests as a professional business exchange, the influencer marketing industry will be better.”

City Hall Media Room

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Tortoise is a new journalism startup from James Harding, former head of news at BBC. Emily Bell says in The Guardian that the venture “feels like an escape, not a solution, to journalism’s problems.”
From Wired: The ‘Future Book’ Is Here, but It’s Not What We Expected.
ICYMI, here are NiemanLab’s Predictions for Journalism 2019. I like what Celeste LeCompte shared: “Most people don’t consume news because they want to be more informed about the news; they want to be informed about the news that they’re likely to talk about.”
It’s super long, but I found some great media nuggets in this transcript of Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher talking about the future of journalism.
NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS and Fox will all “provide wall-to-wall coverage of President Donald Trump’s prime time address on border security on Tuesday,” according to CNN. CNN, Fox News and MSNBC will all carry the address live, as well.

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