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27 Oct

A Cautionary Tale for Old Media

In 1990, four years before the first web browser was released, the executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News wrote a remarkably prescient memo to his bosses at the […]

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26 Oct

Krugman, according to Alternet

Alternet has an interview with Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. The leader says it’s about how Krugman thinks “the right-wing media machine is destroying social progress.” […]

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26 Oct

The Irvings and the courts

A New Brunswick judge extended an injunction against a man trying to start up a community newspaper in New Brunswick, who is accused of stealing corporate secrets from the Irvings, […]

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26 Oct

Kill the messenger!

Al-Jazeera’s journalists have suffered bombings, expulsions, censorship, threats, beatings, routine jailings and controversial incarceration by U.S. forces. Now, says an Associated Press report, “Al-Qaida sympathizers have unleashed a torrent of […]

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26 Oct

Toronto Star series wins online journalism award

Congratulations to Toronto Star reporter Jim Rankin, who along with a team at the paper, won the Online Journalism Award for service journalism. The award was presented at the Online […]

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26 Oct

Multimedia reports of CJF events

The Canadian Journalism Foundation has posted multimedia reports of their two most recent events: the sold-out October 17 panel discussion “Charitable Sector and the Media: Accountability and Reporting” and the October […]

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26 Oct

FEMA workers play reporters

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, criticized for its response after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, was treated more gently at a hastily called news conference to talk about its […]

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25 Oct

Murdoch and the WSJ: a stumbling block?

Finally: WASHINGTON – A federal communications regulator on Thursday said News Corp.’s proposed $5 billion acquisition of The Wall Street Journal’s parent company raises competitive issues nationally and in New […]

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25 Oct

Charter should protect journalists

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be enough to protect journalists from being forced to give up their sources, lawyers for Montreal’s La Presse argued in Federal Court. […]

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25 Oct

Trina McQueen award

The Association of Electronic Journalists announced a new award for Best Television News Information Program, named after Trina McQueen. McQueen has been a reporter for Toronto’s CFTO; co-host of W5; […]

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