One of the more damning accusations, post-U.S. election, is that Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and vice-presidential candidate for the Republicans, didn't know that Africa was a continent.

She complained about being slagged by anonymous people, so one "McCain adviser" stepped forward -- "Martin Eisenstadt."

Did any media trout leap at that fly? You betcha!

CBC reporter Mellissa Fung made the following promises to herself as she lay in a literal hole in the ground: "I am not dying here. Dying is not an option. Help is coming."

From CP via CTV.ca:

Cost pressures and plunging share prices prompted Canadian publisher and broadcaster CanWest Global Communications Corp. to cut 560 jobs -- about five per cent of its workforce -- Wednesday as the company faces a rougher economy and more competition.

From j-source:

The newspaper and the web operations are moving to become one integrated newsroom, and the days of web only reporters are over. ...

The Globe is introducing organizational changes, in part, to ensure that when stories are assigned, decisions are made about what the total package will include for Globe readers both online and later in print. (Senior editor Jim Sheppard) said when the morning assignments are drawn up they will now include tasks for the web.

As well, he said there will be a new approach when the editors arrive in the morning.

“We are going to be asking the question ‘What’s the best way to tell this story?’ Do we actually need the reporter to go out and do something for us or should we use the reporter in a different way. For example, should we use a wire story on the actual breaking news event and should we have the reporter come online to do a Q and A after the fact? Do we need video to go with that story? Is that a story that has a lot of background to it that can be told best on the Web as a timeline instead of writing another two thousand words of text to go with it?.”