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  1. And Then They Came For Me
    Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
  2. Canwest latest ‘media giant’ to exploit news operations
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they’ve deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it’s not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
  3. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News-And Why
    The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
  4. Connexions Selected Links & Resources: Media Links: Periodicals & Broadcast Media Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A selection of progressive media websites.
  5. The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States.
  6. Don't Forget to Write
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
  7. From Politics to Profit
    The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
  8. From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Every time a daily newspaper of the obsolete model lays off another round of reporters, more of them come to us to study and learn the craft anew from this very different and opposite angle: from below, as opposed to the top down model that encrusted around them and doomed the previous version of their careers. Truth is, there is a direct correlation between the space in the media sphere that gets freed up every time a daily newspaper loses circ or dies and the increased reach that we and others have as we replace them with a better more people-powered model. So don’t mourn the American daily newspaper. Anything you liked about it will continue but from a different set of new media. The time will come when one or more of those publications, or a new one yet to come in the US, will turn to the models that work for the daily Por Esto! or El Libertador or others South of the border, kissing their slavish dependence on advertisers goodbye and throwing their lot in, instead, with the larger multitudes of society.
  9. Guardian (Daily)
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    British daily newspaper.
  10. The Guardian Weekly
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    British weekly newspaper with good international news and analysis.
  11. Hanging On: Native media are surviving
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    Native media are struggling to survice.
  12. Hitler's Propaganda Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  13. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  14. Media Names & Numbers
    Your Connection to the Media
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2009
    A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
  15. The Missing News 
    Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
  16. Le Monde Diplomatique
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
  17. Le Monde Diplomatique - English edition
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    English-language edition of the French newspaper. Some articles free on the Web site; full access requires a subscription.
  18. News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
    Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
  19. Newspapers and the Workers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1916
    The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.
  20. The Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  21. Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
  22. Radical Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
  23. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
  24. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
  25. The Straight Goods
    Canadians Informing Canadians
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1999
    A daily Internet news and feature publication featuring investigative reports, columns, and a variety of features.
  26. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  27. Yesterday's News
    Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

Experts on Newspapers in the Sources Directory

  1. Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association
  2. The British Library
  3. The Canadian Public Relations Society, Inc.
  4. Deutsches Historisches Museum
  5. Media Names & Numbers
  6. National Print Museum
  7. Barrie Zwicker


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