For reporters it seems that getting media access to senior government officials is becoming more difficult with an increased emphasis on controlling the messaging. Stephen Harper’s cold war with the Parliamentary Press Gallery is legendary complete with limiting questions, requiring reporters to sign into press conferences, trying to remove a cameraman from a flight after…
Student unions and the campus press are two things that go together like a spark to gasoline. When it’s done right you can take the energy and use it to propel the best interests of students as far as possible. When it’s done wrong it can lead to everybody getting badly burned. By Mick Sweetman…
By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor This week has seen the campus press making the news and much as covering it. The Gazette at Western University is in a hot dispute with the University Students’ Council (USC) over plans to move the paper into a space about half the size of its current office, reportedly to…
