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22 Aug

Voyage au palais de justice

Isabelle Richer, Radio-CanadaLe monde judiciaire est complexe, intrigant, parfois rebutant, souvent hermétique. Ce carnet me semble être l’occasion idéale pour donner une perspective plus juste de la teneur des débats […]

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22 Aug

When blogs produce good journalism

If you are teaching a journalism course about blogs, or using blogs,  you may find this list by Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at NYU helpful. It is an initital list […]

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21 Aug

Lessons learned from teaching a first course in online journalism

An instructor who took on the challenge of teaching a senior workshop in online journalism at a university in Texas outlines how he tried to ensure the focus remained on […]

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21 Aug

Writing great headlines

If you are looking for exercises to help students learn to write effective headlines, you may find this site helpful. It’s an online interactive workshop for which copy editors have […]

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20 Aug

War coverage

Canadian media have consistently given priority to covering the deaths of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan; today’s Globe and Mail top-front page piece about the death of Simon Longtin of the […]

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20 Aug

Medill’s Dean defends his revolutionary new journalism curriculum

In this Chicago Magazine article, the Dean of the Medill School of Journalism, responds to critics who say his new curriculum sacrifices the principles of journalism for the principles of marketing. […]

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20 Aug

Using multimedia to bring statistics to life

In an interview with OJR’s Robert Niles, Amy Pyle at The Sacramento Bee answers questions about ‘Tackling Life,’ her paper’s multimedia examination of challenges facing local African American males. She […]

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20 Aug

Russia drops BBC

Is Russia cracking down on foreign media? The BBC was effectively kicked out of the country today. From a story in the Guardian:The BBC World Service has lost its last […]

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20 Aug

CBC “regrets” taking Harper out of context

After airing a story that sparked a number of complaints, the CBC offered an apology at the end of a National broadcast for quoting Stephen Harper out of context. The […]

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20 Aug

Canadian Space Agency’s media page

The Canadian Space Agency’s one-stop-shop for media.

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