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25 Sep

How to be a good journalism student

Instead of the usual tips for writing a great lead or landing a great interview, a British journalism professor has come up with rules for how to be journalism students. He […]

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25 Sep

The upside of Harper’s press restrictions

NewsOttawa (July 30, 2007) — One year after relations between the Parliamentary Press Gallery and the Harper government hit rock bottom, some observers see signs that restrictions on media access […]

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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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