Saturday, August 20, 2005
CBC lockout VII: Lessons from history: The strike newspaper
What was being posted as tidbit and rumour, is now official, next week locked out Canadian Media Guild workers will launch their own, web-based, national news service.
Details were first on Todd Maffin's blog, I love radio.
Official statement from the Canadian Media Guild
Guild Media News Service
It seems a lot of people across the country had the same idea around the same time. It reminds me of the early days of the web at CBC, where again innovation came from the ground up, not from management. While there were a couple of experimental official websites, most of the action came from producers who set up their own sites. (That later proved to be a bit a headache when it all had to be integrated into the official site). But things have come together over the past couple of days.
Putting out a newspaper during a strike has been a long tradition in the business. This is however is something entirely new, a full fledged national news operation, and web based. It is something that J-profs will be using for Phd theses for years to come.
With that in mind I Googled to see if I could find a reliable account of a strike newspaper.
(Hey I am well aware we're locked out...but the traditional term is strike newpaper. Maybe we'll change that. Copy editors or writers out there, do you have any suggestions for a neutral term? Send me your suggestions and I will post them.)
There is a fragment of history on the Online Journalism Review....at least when I clicked it seemed that for some reason not all the pages have survived, sort of like being a web archaeologist. Keeping the pressure on . It's worth reading.
The Guild in Seattle wrapped the account of an Internet based strike newspaper with this article.
How the Internet Settled a Strike.
Another site gives the story of an earlier strike newspaper in Seattle, in 1936.
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11:15 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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What was being posted as tidbit and rumour, is now official, next week locked out Canadian Media Guild workers will launch their own, web-based, national news service.
Details were first on Todd Maffin's blog, I love radio.
Official statement from the Canadian Media Guild
Guild Media News Service
It seems a lot of people across the country had the same idea around the same time. It reminds me of the early days of the web at CBC, where again innovation came from the ground up, not from management. While there were a couple of experimental official websites, most of the action came from producers who set up their own sites. (That later proved to be a bit a headache when it all had to be integrated into the official site). But things have come together over the past couple of days.
Putting out a newspaper during a strike has been a long tradition in the business. This is however is something entirely new, a full fledged national news operation, and web based. It is something that J-profs will be using for Phd theses for years to come.
With that in mind I Googled to see if I could find a reliable account of a strike newspaper.
(Hey I am well aware we're locked out...but the traditional term is strike newpaper. Maybe we'll change that. Copy editors or writers out there, do you have any suggestions for a neutral term? Send me your suggestions and I will post them.)
There is a fragment of history on the Online Journalism Review....at least when I clicked it seemed that for some reason not all the pages have survived, sort of like being a web archaeologist. Keeping the pressure on . It's worth reading.
The Guild in Seattle wrapped the account of an Internet based strike newspaper with this article.
How the Internet Settled a Strike.
Another site gives the story of an earlier strike newspaper in Seattle, in 1936.
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writing, journalism, CBC,
Canada, blog, news, Seattle
11:15 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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