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CBC Radio Number One

This morning, a big THANK YOU to our listeners. Once again, Daybreak North is the NUMBER ONE radio show in Prince George northern British Columbia, and CBC is the most-listened to radio station all day and all week. On any given morning nearly 1/3 of radios in cars, homes, offices are tuned in to us, and we’re honoured to wake up with you. We love the north, and we’re glad the north likes us back. Thanks for listening.

Posted on 29 May 2015 and filed under CBC, links, outbound

Hire local

Bill Phillips on the latest hire at city hall, Rob van Adrichem from UNBC: “Give them credit for hiring locally. That’s two in a row, as city manager Kathleen Soltis was named Beth James’ successor earlier this year. “Mayor Lyn Hall and the new council elected last fall, wasted no time in getting rid of […]

Posted on 28 May 2015 and filed under links, outbound, Prince George, small

City council takes the bus

Some of them had never been on it before.

Posted on 23 May 2015 and filed under articles, cities, links, main, outbound, Prince George

Tabatha Southey spells it out

“Hydro One has other employees to consider, people who might not feel comfortable working under or beside a man who has made it clear that sexually harassing women while they work is something fun that he’s entitled to do, and if they object they are failing in their duty to feel grateful they don’t have a vibrator in their ear.”

Posted on 17 May 2015 and filed under links, main, outbound, small

Prince George Free Press Shutting Down

It is truly a sad day for us here at the Prince George Free Press, and for the community of Prince George.
As of May 1, the Prince George Free Press will cease publishing.

Posted on 30 April 2015 and filed under journalism, links, media, outbound

Talkback App

This is really clever. From the “The Longest Shortest Time” podcast: “We ask a question; you answer it. We’ll feed our favorite answers back into the app for your listening pleasure. Some of your answers will wind up on our show (like here). And sometimes we’ll collect questions from *you* for a special podcast guest. […]

Posted on 29 April 2015 and filed under links, outbound, small

CBC eliminates 241 jobs

When I started at CBC, we had millions more in our budget and hundreds more people working for us. It was five years ago.

Posted on 16 April 2015 and filed under CBC, links, outbound, small

Bitch Bitch Bitch

“Recently surveyed Home Sweet Home customers would like less bitchiness from us at the store. This is problematic for us, since we are bitches.”

Posted on 8 April 2015 and filed under links, outbound, small

Of dictionaries, buttercups, and time

“So what do the recent changes to the Oxford Junior Dictionary mean? I think it’s fair to say that it means that school-aged children – the target audience of this dictionary – aren’t holding buttercups under chins. They aren’t catching amphibians. They aren’t listening to birds. They aren’t playing games among tangles of willows. They are, instead, being influenced toward corporatized indoor loneliness instead of towards a corporate outdoor solitude.”

Posted on 8 April 2015 and filed under links, outbound, small

Female Voices

“I very much fell into the trap of only being exposed to the voices of men. My blog subscriptions were all to male writers. Those I followed on Twitter were almost all male. I spoke at many conferences, and in every case, the speaker line-up was either almost completely or exclusively male. Those men then amplified other male voices, perpetuating the effect.
“It’s vital, for all our sakes, that we make an effort to change that.”

Posted on 8 April 2015 and filed under links, outbound, small, social media

Against beautiful journalism

Felix Salmon, in Reuters: “Today, when you read a story at the New Republic, or Medium, or any of a thousand other sites, it looks great; every story looks great. Even something as simple as a competition announcement comes with a full-page header and whiz-bang scrollkit graphics. The result is a cognitive disconnect: why is […]

Posted on 21 March 2015 and filed under journalism, links, outbound, small

Inside the search for the new host of Q

“Thursday marked 20 weeks since Ghomeshi had stepped out of the studio and into infamy, and everyone on staff was eager – some would say desperate – to begin a new chapter.”

Posted on 14 March 2015 and filed under CBC, links, outbound

Beyond Hope and proud of it

“Prince George residents in general and members of the area business community in particular are desperate – bordering on teenage girl obsessed with the captain of the football team – to be recognized by the denizens of Greater Vancouver.”

Posted on 26 February 2015 and filed under British Columbia, links, outbound, Prince George

The Tyranny of the Talking Point

Sean Holman: “I know that your role, as a so-called communications professional, is to put the best spin on what the government is or isn’t doing. “That means you often don’t respond the questions I ask, you help elected officials do the same thing and you won’t let me talk to those who actually have […]

Posted on 24 February 2015 and filed under links, outbound, politics

PG 100

Busy times. Next week, Prince George starts hosting the Canada Winter Games, one of the largest events in the country and the biggest to ever come to Prince George. At the same time, Prince Rupert is hosting the All-Native Basketball Tournament, an important event for the region. Our office is doing special coverage for both, […]

Posted on 6 February 2015 and filed under CBC, links, main, outbound, Prince George

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