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25 Sep

Proposed U.S. shield law moves forward

INDIANAPOLIS (Aug. 1, 2007) – The Society of Professional Journalists, the nation’s most broad-based journalism advocacy organization, commends the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s decision to vote in favor […]

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24 Sep

Online, all the time

American journalist Seymour Hersh has much to say In a Q&A interview about the Internet’s impact on journalism: “There is an enormous change taking place in this country in journalism. […]

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24 Sep

Students challenged to be journalistic innovators and entreprenuers

An American journalism professor has just received a huge grant to provide seed funding to news start-ups developed by students in his entrepreneurial journalism class at City Univeristy of New […]

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24 Sep

Klein and the National Post

“Paying an Author and Putting Her Down” is a report in the New York Times about Naomi Klein’s odd appearance in the National Post. The Post paid for the rights […]

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24 Sep

Armstrong and the rabble-rousing journalist

His editor figured him for a “rabble-rouser and liberal,” but Larry Lubenow knew a good story when he heard one. And so he quoted Louis Armstrong when the jazz legend […]

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24 Sep

NYT says ad discount a mistake

MoveOn.org will pay an extra $77,000 for a controversial ad that was published at a discount in the New York Times, the Washington Post reports. The ad, which assails Gen. David Petraeus as […]

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24 Sep

FOI audit shows gov’t still keeping secrets

By Fred Vallance-JonesWhen I sat down to crunch the raw data from the third annual CNA FOI audit, I hoped against hope that I’d discover a marked improvement in performance […]

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24 Sep

Don’t forget the value of hyperlinking

“Hyperlinks not only can help provide informative context to information within a story, they also can help keep a story alive long after its original publication,” says Robert Niles at […]

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24 Sep

Sarkozy et les médias : l’information neutralisée par la communication politique

Politique.net Hyperprésidence, omniprésence médiatique, tels sont les qualificatifs qui reviennent le plus souvent à propos des premiers mois de Nicolas Sarkozy à l’Elysée. Le chef de l’Etat est partout, il […]

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24 Sep

Les supercheries d’un journaliste et expert sur le terrorisme

Alexis Debat, 35 ans, vient d’être démasqué. Le Français avait fabriqué de toute pièce des entrevues avec des personnalités comme Bill Clinton, Barack Obama et Bill Gates, parues dans la […]

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