Well, the cover certainly has a more distinct look than the Mon.-Sat. Star. That's because it's Canada's first maga-paper!

Toronto Star columnist Ellen Roseman kicks off a new Money 301 column by looking at how and why Canadians donate to charity.

An excerpt:

More on the mysterious disappearance of Florence Aubenas and her translator in Iraq. Here's a Jan.6 post on her case which has lots of links to material about working in Iraq as a journo.

A number of institutes associated with Hahvahd University are going to invite some presumably cool people to discuss  Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground.

This happens on Jan. 21-22, but you, presumably uninvited ...   more »

The casualty list of those who blog about the places they work just keeps growing. See a previous post for more on blogging about work.

This relatively brief NYT Magazine commentary by author and Einstein Forum director Susan Neiman looks at how we deal, intellectually and morally speaking, with the difference between natural and man-made disasters:

An excerpt:

That's the headline for an NYT story on whether Apple Computer's new iPod slogan and one from New Yorker writer Malcom Gladwell book have managed to catch (as the article says) a zeitgeist ripple.

Some excerpts:

A week ago Daniel Okrent, the NYT's public editor, wrote about the paper's choice of a front-page photo to represent the human toll of the tsunami disaster. It clearly showed dead children (see my blog posting on this).

This Sunday, his readers respond.