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One dramatic White House expulsion might have gotten much of the attention on Thursday, November 8, 2018, but there's been another that free-speech advocates say must not be ignored: the banning of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.
Tim Fontaine launched the satirical Walking Eagle News site about a year ago after a lengthy career as a journalist covering Indigenous issues in Canada. Today, tongue firmly in cheek, he gives himself the titles Editor-in-Grand-Chief and Head Writer of "your finest source of Indigenous news, anywhere."
Under pressure over his no-prisoners, no-apologies style following the deadliest-ever anti-Semitic attack on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump sent his supporters on Monday, October 29, 2018, a familiar conservative comeback: it's all the media's fault.
A sign of the company’s fiscal crisis came in September when unionized journalists and sales staff at the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun voted 32 to 24 to accept a Postmedia contract that reduces sick pay, dental and other health benefits. The company had threatened to lock out the workers if they didn’t accept the deal.
At a cocktail party in Toronto last month, a fund manager challenged me with the following question: 'Do you believe in objective truth?' It got me thinking about the state of the fact in our crazy, mixed-up social media-driven world.
National Observer is a finalist for "Best Publication" at the upcoming Canadian Online Publishing Awards and columnist Sandy Garossino is up for "Best Column" for her deep dive into the Omar Khadr case. Sandy's brave, thorough analysis of the Omar Khadr situation rocked Canada and changed the way people saw this important issue.
David Pecker, the chairman and CEO of the company that owns National Enquirer, resigned from his board seats at Postmedia Network Canada Corp. and Postmedia Network Inc., the Canadian media company has announced.
A Toronto newspaper photographer said he opted to file a complaint with police about being attacked while covering a protest in order to raise awareness about the dangers of escalating anti-media sentiment.
National Observer joins The Boston Globe and some 350 American newspapers publishing editorials today denouncing Trump's dangerous and demeaning war on the news media.
