Can the paywall save Canadian newspapers?
Editor’s Note
By John Macfarlane • Illustration by Adrienne Kammerer
The assassination of Osama bin Laden by United States Navy SEALs on May 1 was first reported on Twitter. At 9:45 p.m., White House communications director Daniel Pfeiffer alerted the media that Barack Obama would be addressing the nation at … Continued
Letters
By Readers • Illustration by Jennifer Spinner
LIBERAL APPLICATION I found Warren Kinsella’s harangue on the failings of Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal Party (“The Biggest Losers,” July/August) disappointingly superficial and painfully self-serving, hardly worthy of The Walrus, to which we look for thoughtful discussion of public … Continued
Boys
The trouble with female celebrity profiles and the men who write them
By Carly Lewis
The trouble with female celebrity profiles and the men who write them
Letters
By Readers • Illustration by Luc Melanson
MINISTER OF ED When Jean Chrétien formed his government in 1993, his cabinet included many inexperienced ministers (“Aid for Aides,” September). He asked the Institute on Governance, an Ottawa non-profit organization, to design and deliver training to the rookies and … Continued
Editor’s Note
A new bottom line for the press: enlighten up
By John Macfarlane • Illustration by Sandi Falconer
A new bottom line for the press: enlighten up
Letters
Time Out; Home at Last; Personal History; Surface Analysis; Post Haste; Say Cheese; Tusk-Tusk
By Readers • Illustration by Lauren Tamaki
Time Out; Home at Last; Personal History; Surface Analysis; Post Haste; Say Cheese; Tusk-Tusk
Audio: Embedded with the .01 Percent
In her new book, Plutocrats, journalist Chrystia Freeland reveals the troubling hegemony of the world’s most exclusive club: billionaires
By Accessible Media Inc.
In her new book, Plutocrats, journalist Chrystia Freeland reveals the troubling hegemony of the world’s most exclusive club: billionaires
Chalk It Up
Featuring newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford
By Jason Sherman • Illustration by David Parkins
Featuring newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford
The Observer, Observed
New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik is an aesthete of the ordinary, and this year’s Massey lecturer
By Daniel Baird • Photography by Jody Rogac
New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik is an aesthete of the ordinary, and this year’s Massey lecturer
Big Father Is Watching
Kazakhstan’s homegrown media baroness
By Julian Sher
Kazakhstan’s homegrown media baroness
Not the Six-O’clock News
In post-Communist Albania, teen reporters are redefining broadcast journalism
By Jeannie Marshall
In post-Communist Albania, teen reporters are redefining broadcast journalism
Generation WWW
By Ken Alexander
The new world order, as described in dispatches from the culture front, reveals itself as follows: so long as it is delivered in digestible chunks, is salacious, gossipy, and supported by illustrative pictures, Internet users generally don’t care where content … Continued
Editor’s Note
By John Macfarlane • Illustration by Miki Sato
I find radio and television advertising irritating. It’s intrusive and often insulting (are twentysomethings really as empty headed as they appear in Budweiser commercials?). Newspaper advertisements are less annoying—if you don’t want to read them, you don’t have to—but for … Continued