Archive
26 Aug

Our new look

A note to those who have been following the blog at CanadianJournalist.ca: You’ve probably noticed recent changes in the look and feel of the blog. We have now fully integrated […]

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25 Aug

UWO paper loses independence over spoof issue

Maclean’s on the Board of Governors at the University of Western Ontario decision in May to prevent on-campus distribution and withhold student fees from their student paper, the Gazette. 

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24 Aug

ABC Gum

“On many days the newsprint front page tastes of already chewed gum,” says Jack Shafer, in a Slate column reflecting on how his news consumption has shifted to the Internet. […]

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24 Aug

August 24 & 25: Memorial service for slain Canadian journalists

A memorial service is being held the evening of August 24 in Ottawa and the following night in Toronto for two Canadian journalists killed in Somalia on August 11.

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24 Aug

The Daily Mail Diet

In this seven-minute documentary commissioned by CurrentTV, we follow Nick Angel on his journey of discovery as he reads nothing but UK tabloid Daily Mail for a month. After about […]

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24 Aug

L’expérience MédiaMatinQuébec

Sylvio Le Blanc, Montréal J’espère que des étudiants en journalisme seront bientôt à pied d’oeuvre, car il serait intéressant de comparer la production des journalistes du Journal de Québec (qui […]

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24 Aug

Canadian media will continue to send journalists to Afghanistan

Despite the injuries sustained by two Radio-Canada journalists in a roadside bomb attack on Wednesday, news directors at Global National, CTV News, CBC News, Canwest News Service, the Toronto Star, […]

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23 Aug

Video tutorials about new online tools

This website includes links to a few short, effective tutorials about such things as using RSS readers, DIGG basics, blogging and alerts that online journalism students are bound to find useful […]

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23 Aug

OJR piece explores issue of “rewriting history”

In this piece for OJR.org, Elizabeth Zwerling, an associate professor of journalism at the University of La Verne in Los Angeles County, attempts to answer the question: Should editors delete […]

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23 Aug

Two CBC journalists injured in Afghanistan

Two Canadian journalists were injured in a road-side bomb attack near Kandahar, Afghanistan yesterday. Two Canadian soldiers were killed in the attack on the light-armoured vehicle in which the two […]

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