Toronto Star

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:13pm on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Toronto Star Entertainment Reporter Ashante Infantry Offers Faint Praise for Mariah Carey

On February 10, 2010, Infantry wrote:

"Given the so-so reviews of her current album and inability to sell out even half of the arena she once filled, you'd think Mariah Carey would be quick on the mark for last night's Air Canada Centre concert."

The full story:
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/musicreview/article/763143--a-classy-grown-up-mariah-carey-hides-her-diva-label?bn=1

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 12:39pm on Monday, December 7th, 2009

New Study Says Standard Unclear For Maintaining Online News Archives, the Columbia Journalism Review reported on December 4, 2009:

"Of all the requests she’s received to erase information contained in online articles, Kathy English, the public editor of the Toronto Star, says one in particular stands out.

The reason? It came from a fellow journalist, on behalf of a friend who wanted some embarrassing and outdated information scrubbed from the Star’s Web site. English couldn’t believe a journalist would endorse that kind of request.

“That’s when I knew that I was on top of something in terms of the industry not having consistency [when it comes to this issue],” English says."

The full story:
http://www.cjr.org/regret_the_error/archival_research.php

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 3:11pm on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

The Toronto Star will eliminate one-fifth of its newsroom staff and outsource its copy editing to Pagemasters North America, Editor & Publisher reported on November 25, 2009:

"The reductions, amounting to about one-fifth of the staff, were outlined in a memo to employees by Star Editor in Chief Michael Cooke that was first reported by Joe Schneider of Bloomberg.

"At a time of unprecedented business nightmares facing the Star and our industry, and despite the many operational challenges associated with outsourcing, we believe there are sound business reasons for this proposal," Cooke wrote in the memo.

News of the outsourcing comes as the Star is offering buyouts and early retirement packages to all employees.

The union representing newsroom employees, the Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild, has 30 days to propose alternatives to the outsourcing, Cooke said.

"I realize what deskers especially, and all of you, want and need most is clarity," Cooke said in the memo. "This note is to share with you information about what has happened and what might happen." He added no layoffs will occur until January at the earliest."

John    Toronto

Posted at 5:07pm on Friday, November 20th, 2009

The Toronto Star is a very liberal paper although it is more loyal to the Liberal Party than to leftist causes. The far left NDP is often attacked, though most of the negative sentiment in the paper is reserved for the ruling Conservative Party of Canada and the current Conservative PM, Stephen Harper. The Toronto Star runs at leat one negative story about the ruling party every single day and any casual observer will see about 3 or 4 news stories with a negative tone and about 3 or 4 negative opinion pieces about the Conservatives every week. The least biased writers are Jim Travers and Chantel Herbert. Virtually every other opinion writer is fiercly anti conservative and often anti-american as well. Figures about the Iraq war are also simply made up by some writers. One common muslim apologist in the paper condemns America and Israel once per month and asserts that 1 million Iraqi civilians died in the Iraq war. The real number is about 65,000. Still horrible, but 1 million sounds better to the Star.