Morning TV news market opens up in Regina
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- Created on Monday, 31 October 2011 15:28
by Jonathan Hamelin
The first episode of CTV Regina’s new morning show came out swinging, literally. Regina mayor Pat Fiacco appeared on the show with boxing gloves and knocked co-anchor Jonathan Glasgow to the floor.
Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver Rob Bagg also stopped by to share his favourite candy apple recipe. Show producer Meghan Duffy said viewers can expect more of the same from the program. CTV’s morning shows are scheduled to run Monday to Friday, 6-9 a.m., in Regina and Saskatoon, the first of at least two local TV stations to step into the morning news market.
Waking up with local morning shows
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- Created on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 22:26
Scott McLean, Rustie Dean and Heather Anderson smile on the new set of Global's Morning News. Photo by Kim Jay.
by Kim Jay
A month ago Regina had no morning TV news programming. Now, Global and CTV will be battling it out for an audience. On Nov 28, Global Regina will roll out their morning news program, shortly after their competitors at CTV Regina hit the air with a similar local morning show.
Global's three hour long program will provide news headlines every 30 minutes, along with a variety of weather reports, traffic updates, in-studio interviews and live hits from around the city.
Sunstroke: A look into Canada's newest all-news station
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- Created on Thursday, 10 March 2011 16:46
by Noah S. Wernikowski
Sun News Network, Canada’s third 24-hour news station, is set to launch in mid-April. The path leading up to its debut has been awry with speculation, fabrications, condemnation and, well, hysteria. First, there was a 2009 New York meeting between Roget Ailes, president of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, the station’s owner, our Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and the now Sun News front man Kory Teneycke. Next, a high-profile clash between Margaret Atwood and Teneycke, which saw the writer accused of putting her “political agenda ahead of principles and patriotism.” And then there were accusations of Harper bullying the CRTC to advance a licence proposal.
Dramatics aside, deceptive and partisan news not only devastates journalism but also pollutes public discourse, gravely crippling democracy. Although we are yet to see Sun News, its background suggests there is much to be weary of. Fox News has affected the States, and its echo is now threatening Canada.
Read more: Sunstroke: A look into Canada's newest all-news station
The death of print exaggerated
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- Created on Wednesday, 17 November 2010 08:45
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Alana Bergstrom
Standing at the front of the third year journalism class here at the University of Regina, I asked “Who thinks they can have a solid career in print?”
At first not many hands fly into the air. A look of deep thought crosses many faces, and from the back corner the question, “what do you mean by print?”
A question that seemed to merit a simple answer, yes or no, was actually difficult to answer.
Where future journalists see themselves in the print industry is unclear. It seems there is concern whether there will even be a print industry to work in.
A multicultural media?
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- Created on Friday, 21 October 2011 20:56
Seeing Red profiles the questionable coverage of aboriginal people in Canada's press. Photo by Christeen Jesse.
By Christeen Jesse
Eight years ago, academic Mark Anderson was asked to review a book on how newspapers in the United States had portrayed aboriginal people in the early 1800s. As he sifted through the research, a seed was planted in his head—one that took until this October to bloom.
Social media transforming election campaigns
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- Created on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 22:56
by Adriana Christianson
Tweets, blogs, Facebook and YouTube – these world-wide forums are fast, free, popular and now they are transforming election campaigns at the local level.
At 10 pm on Wednesday, a live feed on the Regina civic election website posted unofficial results reported by 53 out of 55 polling stations. This is only one example of how residents followed the 2009 civic election in more ways than ever before.
Bieberizing the news
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- Created on Wednesday, 03 November 2010 09:15
Photo: An INK reporter disguised as Justin Bieber.
by Amanda-Lynn Williams
Here in Regina, unless you lived under a rock, there was no way you missed the fact that Justin Bieber was playing a concert.
I stand corrected, unless you had earplugs and lived under a rock in an abandoned farmhouse, you might have gotten away with not hearing about it...but not likely.
Ever since the concert’s announcement back in early June, Bieber’s face was plastered all over the Queen’s City. The doors were wide open for an onslaught of promotional plugs featuring the doe-eyed, mop topped teen icon.