Wagmedia

A slow blog on Canada, media, and policy which is kept by Dr. Ira Wagman of the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. To contact me, send an e-mail to irawagman (at) gmail (dot) com.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Canadian Television's Two Solitudes

Another quick post -- more of a link, actually. Here's my article on Canadian TV just published in "The Mark". There is a longer post coming, as I will be taking my sabbatical very soon. It includes a sabbatical from my blog. Given the amount of posting recently, I trust this cause few shockwaves.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Link to pass along

Here's a link to my column, published in Carleton Now about the panic over "Wikipedia Kids" that was all over the Canadian media a few weeks ago.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Now I have seen everything....

Now CTV declares it is the champion of local television -- as long as Canadians agree to pay more for it.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Now in print....


Ira Wagman and Ezra Winton, "Canadian cultural policy in the age of media abundance: New Media, Old Challenges" in Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, 3rd edition. Edited by Leslie Regan Shade. Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2009, pp. 61-77.

This is the latest edition of an introductory textbook for students in Communication studies, but it contains an impressive range of articles by a number of scholars working on Canadian media matters. Check out the table of contents here.

This was my first attempt at co-writing with a graduate student, and it defnitely will not be my last. I enjoyed the process very much, and I think both of us got something out of it.

By the way, I love the cover.