Aussie spat gets physical

The spat between News Corp and Mail Online over copyright in Australia has spilled over to the Cannes Lions advertising festival, with a late night altercation between website publisher Martin Clarke and a reporter from a Murdoch title. Darren Davidson, a media...

Worldwide ad spending grows

Ad execs in Cannes, awash in a sea of rosé this week, need not drink to drown any sorrows: The advertising industry, it turns out, is doing just fine. Global ad spending will top $516 billion this year, according to the latest forecast from Magna Global....

Dialing into smartphones

It almost seems unfair — a case of double jeopardy. Traditional news organizations have spent the past decade responding to an enormously disruptive piece of technology: the web browser. Their old monopolies, their old claims on the audience’s attention, were broken...

Unions and pipelines

If you want jobs, you need to pump and transport oil and gas, albeit as safely as humanly possible. That’s been the mantra from B.C. premier Christy Clark — a key, many would argue, to her surprise victory in the 2013 provincial election. It’s a...

New union proposal gets fleshed out

The Proposal Committee established by the CAW and the CEP to develop a plan for a new national union held its third meeting in Toronto May 14-17. This meeting focused on developing the potential structure of the new union. It also considered ideas for organizing new...