Archive
15 Oct

October 29, 2007: Using the web to boost your freelance business

In this two-hour seminar, freelance writer and trainer Paul Lima will talk about how you can use the Web to market your freelance writing and editing services (or training, web […]

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14 Oct

Washington Post reporter killed in Iraq

Salih Saif Aldin, a correspondent for The Washington Post, was fatally shot Oct. 14 while reporting on violence in the Bagdhad neighbourhood of Sadiyah, reported the Associated Press. Aldin, 32, […]

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14 Oct

Racial journalism in America: “retelling folk tales”

There have been many calls on blogs, journalism sites and various public speakers for more, not less, stories about the so-called Jena 6 (six Americans involved in an incident of […]

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13 Oct

China increasing Internet censorship: AP report

An Associated Press story takes a look at increased surveillance and censorship in China in the lead-up to the Communist Party Congress next week. “”For China’s 162 million web users, […]

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13 Oct

Michel Audet poursuit Stéphane Gendron, Richard Desmarais et TQS

Christiane Desjardins, La PresseEstimant avoir été la cible de propos diffamatoires lors de l’émission L’avocat et le diable du 25 octobre 2006, l’ex-ministre des Finances du Québec, Michel Audet, réclame […]

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13 Oct

Les médias indépendants ont le vent dans les voiles

Jooneed Khan, La Presse«Pendant la guerre froide, les médias occidentaux ont misé sur le pluralisme et la liberté d’expression pour se démarquer des médias totalitaires des pays de l’Est. C’était […]

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13 Oct

Project Censored Media Accountability Conference

Get ready to hear what a US panel considers to be the most important and under-reported stories of the past year. The conference announcement states: Project Censored holds its annual […]

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12 Oct

U.S. has detained AP Pulitzer winning photog for 18 months

American authorities have now detained Iraqi news photographer Bilal Hussein, who worked for the Associated Press and is a Pulitzer Prize winner, for 18 months. The AP’s web site today […]

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12 Oct

China’s Big Brother techniques

Reporters Without Borders and “Chinese Human Rights Defenders” says their new joint study “reveals how that country’s government censors the Internet and how the Internet Information Administrative Bureau controls the […]

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12 Oct

Media concentration: the Irvings versus an upstart

Irving family companies control most of the media in New Brunswick. Now, they’re in court trying to stop an upstart from setting up a competing newspaper. CBC has a story […]

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