1. Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
2. Canwest latest ‘media giant’ to exploit news operations
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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. The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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.
4. From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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.
5. Have new social media made ‘traditional’ media obsolete?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   New media provide additional channels for getting messages out, but they don't make older media obsolete. The task is of public relations is to reach people through the media they use. In an increasingly diverse and fragmented world, that means using as many different channels of communication as possible.
6. Journalism: Truth or Dare?
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
7. The Missing News
   Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
   Resource Type: Book
   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?
8. Spinwars
   Politics and New Media
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
9. Yesterday's News
   Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1998
   Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

Experts on Newspaper Readership in the Sources Directory

1. Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association