The Gazetteer (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
SellingCanadiansDownTheirOwnPrivate CrazyRiverVille From the Big Willbowski: The story starts in 2008. Liberal MP Gerry Byrne prepared a motion calling on the government to introduce an airline passenger’s bill of rights. Travellers would be guaranteed remedies for lost bags, unreasonable delays or overbooked flights. The model was similar to protection in Europe... {snippety-doo-dah}...
Editor And Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... event which was called “The Audience: How America Uses its Media.” On the panel: Nielsen executive Gerry Byrne and media lawyer Dean Ringel, a partner at the New York law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel.Ringel advocated introducing compulsory licensing fees for Web-based agregators or re-distributors of news content. Under Ringel’s system, sites like Google would be required to share...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... to internal documents obtained by Canwest News Service. The motion by Newfoundland Liberal MP Gerry Byrne, calling on the government to bring forward a bill to entrench a passenger bill of rights into law, passed in the House of Commons unanimously last year, but only after a high-ranking political operative in then-transport minister Lawrence Cannon's office tried to scuttle the...
Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... to internal documents obtained by Canwest News Service. The motion by Newfoundland Liberal MP Gerry Byrne, calling on the government to bring forward a bill to entrench a passenger bill of rights into law, passed in the House of Commons unanimously last year, but only after a high-ranking political operative in then-transport minister Lawrence Cannon’s office tried to scuttle the...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... all have been struggling mightily in the past year - were to be sold. Asked to confirm the report, Gerry Byrne , who heads the entertainment division of Nielsen Business Media, wrote in an email that "(I) really have no comment off or on" the record. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media .
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... been struggling mightily in the past year – were to be sold. Asked to confirm the report, Gerry Byrne, who heads the entertainment division of Nielsen Business Media, wrote in an email that ”(I) really have no comment off or on” the record. It has been a brutal period in magazine publishing, and for business-to-business trades in general. The Hollywood Reporter in...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... a deal. The Wrap got a “no comment” by e-mail from Nielsen Business Media head Gerry Byrne. A couple of years ago, Finkelstein toyed with the idea of selling The Hill to Allbritton Communications but the talks never panned out—and Allbritton instead bankrolled Politico , now a major competitor. More as we know it.
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... where I crossed paths with my good pals -- and Michael's stalwarts -- Lisa Linden and Nielsen's Gerry Byrne . "I thought I'd get here early and beat the crowd," Lisa told me. Nothing doing as we inched our way into the packed dining room. A camera crew from LX New York was there as the man of the hour personally greeted each guest at the door with a slap on the back (for...
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Liberal Ms. Paule Brunelle (Trois-Rivières) Bloc Québécois Mr. Gerry Byrne (Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte) Liberal Mr. John Cannis (Scarborough Centre) Liberal Mr. Serge Cardin (Sherbrooke) Bloc Québécois Mr. Robert Carrier (Alfred-Pellan) Bloc Québécois Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain) NDP Ms. Olivia Chow (Trinity—Spadina)...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Rick Dykstra, Mario Silva, Gerry Byrne, Kirsty Duncan, Todd Russell, Shelly Glover, Rob Clarke, Scott Brison, Pablo Rodriguez, Leona Aglukkaq, Greg Rickford, Andrew Kania, Dominic LeBlanc, Randy Hoback, Lisa Raitt, Jason Kenney, Brian Masse, Blaine Calkins, Russ Hiebert, Helena Guergis, Rona Ambrose, John Baird, Bernard Bigras, Mike Lake, Scott Simms, Glenn Thibeault, Paul Calandra, Dean...
