Honderich slams Postmedia election editorials

Never before in a federal election, in my memory, have newspaper endorsements become so controversial. Topping the list unquestionably was Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey’s dramatic order to all 16 major Postmedia papers across Canada to support Stephen Harper. Each paper...

Guild offers to buy Philadelphia Daily News

Lawyers representing the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia on Thursday expressed interest in buying the Philadelphia Daily News from its parent company in a gambit to forestall layoffs, a move that was quickly rejected by owner Gerry Lenfest. The letter, which...

The power of original illustrations

We’ve been mocking stock photos since at least 2011, when Edith Zimmerman published the now-Internet classic “Women Laughing Alone with Salad” on The Hairpin. Four years later, stock images are still easy to spot, even if they’re not outright cheesy. They’re not the...

Vice Canada ready to fight RCMP order

Vice News national security reporter and associate editor Ben Makuch was in Russia working on a story when he got a cryptic message from his colleagues in Toronto. It wasn’t until he arrived back in the city in late February 2015 that he found out what had...