This is the official Globe and Mail story about John Stackhouse's ascension to the position of editor-in-chief. I collected the good stuff.

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John Stackhouse, the new editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail, appears in a 52-second video on the newspaper's website.

I also clip some of his quotes from an interview he gave to The Canadian Press. Note the musings about charging for online content.

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This post tracks changes at the top levels of Toronto newspaper newsrooms since the National Post came into the picture in the fall of 2008. It could use some fleshing out with respects to the details. Any help would be appreciated.

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Huge management shakeup at The Globe and Mail newsroom.

Ed Greenspon is out as editor-in-chief.

John Stackhouse, the Report On Business editor, is in.

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A top FBI official told a Timesman about the events swirling behind what came to be known as the Watergate scandal well before the Washington Post got into the act. And he told an editor ... and the whole thing went nowhere.

And as a result, the Washington Post sailed off into journalistic history.

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NYT public editor Clark Hoyt had to review the firefighting and preventative measures on three ethical flare-ups at his employer's newspaper.

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From the subhead to an essay by U.S. j-prof and social critic Todd Gitlin: "Circulation, revenue, attention, authority, and deference: a host of troubles force the diminishing of news in the United States."

He argues that a public model, guided by non-profit boards, might be the way of the futue.

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Some t-dotters have tried to start up a wonkish version of the Huffington Post, the Mark.

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The Globe and Mail won six.

But for deets, go to this Fagstein post -- he did all kinds of heavy lifting (links to the winning stories and everything!).

The Crown attorneys in the confidential sources case revolving around documents given to National Post reporter Andrew McIntosh seem to be suggesting that journalists could suppress crimes if journalists could protect the identity of confidential sources.

Worse, they seem to have a sympathetic ear from the judges on the Supreme Court of Canada panel hearing the case.

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Toronto Star public editor Kathy English on her conference for an increasingly endangered species -- the newsroom ombudsperson.

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The Globe and Mail editorial board goes to bat for the right of journalists to protect the identity of confidential sources.

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The Globe and Mail's Kirk Makin on a number of press freedom cases that loom on the Supreme Court of Canada's docket in the coming months.

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According to one expert quoted by CP about his fraud conviction, pretty good. But a former prosecutor in the case said Conrad Black is not going to wiggle out from under the obstruction of justice charge.

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A Harris-Decima poll asked Canadians how their media consumption patterns have changed. The answers shouldn't surprise you.

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Speaking on CBC Radio's The Current on Tuesday, historian Michael Bliss said he thinks the news media in Canada have too often given politicians an easy ride when covering corruption issues.

"The Oliphant inquiry in Canada is a nice example of this. We're having this inquiry so long after the fact because in Canada, we don't do enough investigative journalism," he said.

Bliss credited the CBC, particularly the investigative TV show The Fifth Estate, for continuing to pursue the story, but he should have given some credit to The Globe and Mail as well.

"My sense is that the more investigation the media does -- the more active and more critical the media is-- the better. The danger is that as the media weakens in the current Internet age, we'll see less and less of it," he said.

You can find the interview here. The passage I cite above is about 15 minutes in.

Michael Calderone, blogging at the Politico, had some reaction from the Grey Lady on the ethics oopsie by a marquee columnist.

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Wolfram|Apha, a new online tool, goes a step further than Wikipedia. It seems to want to become a computational Google, if I can put it that way.

From its intro:

Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.

Here's a link to some Twitter chatter.

Heard this T Rex classic the other night and have decided to disseminate it to my audience of millions:

For minor amusement purposes, you might also want to check out the first 14 seconds of this version (it's for a German Top of the Pops program).