CBC News is going to cut $7 million from its budget, eliminate 70 jobs -- and deliver more local news programming.

How will this be done, you might sensibly ask? Through the magic of reorganization!

YouTube is burning through an amazing amount of money as it provides a video record of all the world's cute cats. This Slate piece looks at the perhaps fatally flawed economics of Web 2.0.

Last week, Billy-Bob Thornton got huffy with CBC Radio's Jian Ghomeshi, who had the effrontery to note that Thornton has been an actor. Thorton claimed he wasn't to be asked about his acting career.

Russell Smith notes that Thornton ran into something that was once quaintly known as journalism.

Twitter, at its best, can show what people are thinking as they are thinking it. Not only people are using it to extend social communications, but machines are starting to get in on the act. This could be big -- if Twitter gets bigger.

NEWSPAPER advertising, already in its worst slump since the Depression, suffered by far the sharpest drop in generations during the first quarter of 2009, down 30 percent for some papers, industry executives and analysts say.

Three longtime media executives are building an automated system to allow newspapers and magazines to charge for online access, including an “all you can read” subscription that would allow access to multiple publications, the executives said on Tuesday.

The Boston Globe is facing an existential threat from the parent New York Times Co.: Either its unionized staff agrees to draconian cuts or all options are on the table, including closure.

For some, Boston without the Globe is unimaginable. Others couldn't care less.