The date set for announcing winners of Tyee Fellowships, originally set for November 30, has been pushed back a month so that the independent panel making the decision can give the large number of quality entries the attention they deserve. Read more…

Canadian Press is no longer a media co-operative thanks to financial investments from Canadian media giants Torstar Corporation, CTVglobemedia Inc., and Square Victoria Communications Group. Read more…

If the results of a poll in cabinet minister Ida Chong's Victoria area constituency are used by one of the sides in a recall campaign, the expense for the survey will have to be declared to Elections British Columbia. Read more…

A Montreal company is conducting a survey in cabinet minister Ida Chong's Victoria area constituency asking questions related to the recall campaign targeting her. Read more…

The New Democratic Party's candidate would defeat Liberal cabinet minister Ida Chong if a byelection were held in Oak Bay-Gordon Head. Read more…

Ezra Levant, conservative blogger and author of Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands has been ordered by a judge to pay $25,000 for libelous statements he made about a Canadian Human Rights Commission lawyer. Read more…

Tony Burman, managing director of Al Jazeera English, urged a pluralistic, international approach to news reporting in Canada at a Media Democracy Day speech in Vancouver Saturday. “Canada is a prisoner of stereotypes, like other countries with access to only limited coverage of events from abroad,” said Burman, former chief news editor for CBC Television. Read more…

Friend of West Vancouver freelance journalist Beverley Giesbrecht, who was kidnapped in Pakistan two years ago, fears reports from an Indian newspaper than she is dead are true—either at the hands of her captors or due to her failing health. Read more…

Vancouver-based HootSuite Media, Inc., is helping Twitter conduct an unpopular experiment: sprinkling ads between the tweets users are reading. And as a result, @HootSuite is catching as much flak as @Twitter for subjecting users to unwanted advertising. Read more…

PBS News Hour is launching their first online-only live broadcast and blogging of the U.S. mid-term elections and they're inviting Tyee readers to join in! Read more…

With Glen Beck and Jon Stewart leading rallies, is the U.S. heading toward personality media? This weekend’s Rally to Restore Sanity left some journalists scratching their heads about how to cover the event. Read more…

When researcher Mark Weiler made freedom of information requests to British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., he expected to receive records. Instead he got a personal email from president and CEO David Hahn.

Weiler said he found the response strange, considering the identify of individual FOI requesters is supposed to be kept confidential from executives in the public body they're targeting. “In my view there's no basis for David Hahn the executive to know who I am or why I'm ordering it,” he said. Read more…

The Globe and Mail is considering changes to its online polls after people noticed strange voting patterns in a poll on the Prosperity Mine proposal that would destroy Fish Lake.

While communities editor Jennifer MacMillan stops short of saying the 'yes' side may have cheated in the poll, she acknowledges in a blog post that the Globe and Mail's online voting system can be easily manipulated. Read more…

A Globe and Mail editor responded to questions about an online poll being manipulated by saying the national newspaper never claimed the results were scientific. Read more…

Supporters of the Tsilhqot'in National Government say their opponents hijacked an online Globe and Mail poll last week about a mine proposal near Williams Lake.

“It appears someone hacked the system to dump thousands of votes in at a time,” wrote Susan Smitten a filmmaker and executive director of the group Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs in an email to supporters. Read more…

A nation wide survey of employee compensation and standards in some Canadian artist-run centres illustrates a compromised position for those in British Columbia. Read more…

Mexico City based journalist Carlos Fazio is asking Vancouverites to consider the wider context in Mexico if they're planning to travel south this winter. Read more…

As a supporter of literacy, British Columbia New Democratic Party finance critic Bruce Ralston said he would have liked to hand out newspapers and solicit donations for Postmedia's Raise-a-Reader campaign last week, but opposition MLAs weren't invited.

“Certainly I wasn't invited,” he said, noting he's participated in past years. Read more…

Chuck Davis last week announced he is dying of cancer and asked for the public’s support to pay for the writer selected to complete his last book. Read more…

Several participants on a ferry discussion website say British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. has used their photos of vessels without asking, paying or even providing credit. Read more…