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11 Oct

Northumberland View

While citizen journalism sites like NowPublic are gaining popularity and media attention, there are some hyper-local examples of the same kind of collaborative journalism. Northumberland View is a new community […]

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11 Oct

Axiom News

A Peterborough-based news service is hoping to develop a new form of journalism. Axiom News describes its operation as stakeholder journalism, working with community groups and non-government organizations. Journalists work […]

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11 Oct

Lockout highlights danger of media concentration

In this opinion piece for rabble.ca, Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, links the April 2007 lockout of le Journal staff to policies stemming from Sun Media newsroom consolidations.

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11 Oct

Who speaks for a website?

Online communities often operate as a news medium, rather than a traditionally staffed news publication. Other news reports about these sites, to be fully accurate, should reflect that fact by […]

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11 Oct

Torstar CEO criticizes Tyee story

This dust-up with the Tyee and writer Robert Pritchard and subsequent comments is really pretty interesting stuff and speaks volumes on the issue of media concentration and the strange and […]

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11 Oct

Bienvenue au ProjetJ!

Observatoire indépendant des médias, nous avons pour mission d’encourager la réflexion sur la pratique journalistique au Québec, au Canada et dans la Francophonie. Résistez avec nous à l’emprise du quotidien, […]

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11 Oct

Star ends PDF edition

The Toronto Star has stopped offering a free downloadable PDF edition of the paper, Editor & Publisher reports. The Star’s editor-in-chief, Fred Kuntz, says the paper wants to focus more […]

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11 Oct

Canadian charities: the good, the bad and the ugly

by Kevin Donovan With 82,000 charities in Canada and billions of dollars in revenues, philanthropy cannot help but make news. A well-run charity serves those in need and uplifts the […]

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10 Oct

The writer’s challenge and the publisher’s prerogative

by Diane Walsh On the heels of the Winnipeg Anglican Synod Assembly vote that narrowly defeated a call for acceptance of same sex marriage, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, who […]

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10 Oct

Bourse AJIQ – Le Devoir

Montréal, le 10 octobre 2007 L’Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec (AJIQ) est heureuse d’annoncer l’ouverture des candidatures pour la quatrième édition de la bourse AJIQ-Le Devoir, qui permettra à […]

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