Last weekend I saw Page One: Inside The New York Times, the documentary about the influential newspaper. The movie opens with a brief history of print and the sudden decline of print media in the Internet age. Bracing for the Internet fear-mongering that loving portraits of print media usually present, I was surprised by an…
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MediaStyle is proud to have helped produce a brand new podcast for our friends at Volunteer Canada. All four episodes are available now to download. MediaStyle Studio edited the episodes and produced the intros and outros for each. The bulk of credit goes to host of The Voice Graham Macachek. Graham handled recording, hosting, and…
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As my fiance and I have been planning our wedding we’ve noticed something funny. A lot of businesses just aren’t sure how to deal with same-sex couples. We bumped into it again at the Bay this weekend – the wedding registry asks for “bride’s name” and “groom’s name” with a kit that suggests “his &…
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Nick Taylor-Vaisey (@nonstopnicktv) is a prolific Ottawa freelancer and the editor of OpenFile Ottawa (@OpenFileOtt), the recent extension of the OpenFile news service. If you’re not already familiar with how OpenFile works, it’s a collaborative news site that allows citizens to open files and suggest stories for freelancers to cover. Files stay open after the…
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I can’t think of another time in history (in my whole 24 years of being aware of it) when so much transition was happening in human communication. Or when so much of the work was being done by one entity. In this case, it’s Google. Andrew Madden is a former tech journalist and currently the…
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I’ve reported on a number of municipal or provincial election campaigns in my previous life doing radio news, so it was a pleasure to be reporting again for #OttVote – albeit in much different way. In the olden days I’d show up at McGuinty or Charest HQ on election night lugging two XLR-hacked Sony mini-disc recorders;…
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Over the past few weeks I’ve been asked to contribute my opinion on how our local candidates in the Ottawa election are handling the digital shift in campaign communications: During this election Ottawa’s municipal political candidates are getting to know the digital world a little better — with mixed results. If you aren’t certain that what…
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Craig Silverman is part of a team, headed by Wilf Dinnick, that is creating the transparent, multimedia, open-sourced news website OpenFile. The first part of this interview can be found here. -Travis Boisvenue People talk about how social media, or new media, might replace traditional forms. It seems more that social media acts as a supplementary…
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Craig Silverman is the journalist behind Regret the Error, the co-author of Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet and Why It’s Still Broken, and the managing editor of PBS.org MediaShift. [Full disclosure: MediaStyle principal Ian Capstick is a contributor to the MediaShift blog] He’s also part of the team, headed by Wilf Dinnick, that is creating the…
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Rob Cottingham and Alexandra Samuel are early movers in the social media world. Their combined online presence leaves a big impact. Alex’s articles appear online for the Harvard Business Review and Oprah.com and Rob’s cartooning is a mainstay of several well read blogs. Most interesting to me is their commitment to the ideals of their…
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