BCE Inc. (Bell) announced its acquisition of leading Canadian left-wing news website rabble.ca.
media reform
Reimagining CBC during troubled times
The goal of the Reimagine CBC project is to spark a brainstorm on the future of public media in Canada.
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Bell Media acquires rabble.ca in bid to woo progressive audience
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BCE Inc. (Bell) Friday announced its acquisition of leading Canadian left-wing news website rabble.ca in order to access the "burgeoning Canadian progressive market."
BCE Inc., whose holdings include Bell Canada, CTVglobemedia and Astral media, outbid Rogers Communications to purchase Canada's most-read online source for progressive news and opinion in an undisclosed deal, which includes all of rabble's ancillary media brands, including rabbletv, rabble radio and babble, its online discussion board.
Reimagine CBC: Canadians come together to think big in troubled times
In late January, a small team gleaned from the ranks of Vancouver-based citizens' organizations OpenMedia.ca and Leadnow.ca took the wraps off an exciting new project called Reimagine CBC. The goal was simple, but ambitious: to spark a massive brainstorm on the future of public media in Canada by asking Canadians how the CBC, as a public broadcaster, could be reimagined as a leader in participatory, innovative and engaging media production.
Giving up on newspapers
I gave up on newspapers years ago. I haven't given up reading them, but I've packed in talking to them about the future.
I remember sitting in the boardroom of the Toronto Star in 2007 doing a presentation about social media, the lost opportunities of classifieds and the paper's unique position to create an open, electronic community hub. The people that could have made a difference in that room, the publisher included, weren't listening.
Canada's media under the lens
About Canada: Media
(Fernwood Publishing,
2011;
$17.95)
This weekend rabble.ca and other independent media in Vancouver will gather to celebrate Media Democracy Day. At the event, citizens, artists, activists, scholars, policy-makers, journalists, and community leaders will participate in a dialogue about the state of Canadian media.
At Media Democracy Day, author and film scholar, Dr. Peter Steven, will be featured on a plenary with rabble.ca founder, Judy Rebick and communication scholar, Dr. Sut Jhally.
Media mediocrity: How the television makes us stoopid!
Apr 16 2011 - 4:00pm
Apr 16 2011 - 6:00pm
Location
Another Story Bookshop
315 Roncesvalles Ave
Toronto, ON M6R 2M6Canada
Phone:
416-462-1104
43° 38' 54.8124" N, 79° 26' 59.226" W
See map: Google Maps
Meteorologist, TV/film producer, university lecturer, writer, broadcaster and general media expert, Richard Zurawski is coming to the store to lead a discussion about how the media is failing to keep us informed.
Why do so many people still deny the "hypothesis" of global climate change? All but a few rogue scientists agree that we have a crisis on our hands, but all we get from TV and news media are debates in the form of sound bites... Why are we denying the voices of those experts in favor of politicians and pundits?
So get up off the couch and let's have a discussion (with an expert) face to face!
Contact name:
Kara
Contact email:
Why we need public media
The aspen grove on Kebler Pass in Colorado is one of the largest organisms in the world. Thousands of aspen share the same, interconnected root system. Last weekend, I snowmobiled over the pass, 10,000 feet above sea level, between the towns of Paonia and Crested Butte. I was racing through Colorado to help community radio stations raise funds, squeezing in nine benefits in two days. The program director of public radio station KVNF in Paonia dropped us at the trailhead, where the program director of KBUT public radio in Crested Butte and a crew of station DJs picked us up on snowmobiles to whisk us 30 miles over the pass.
