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14 Aug

Weekly World News will be missed

Cate Doty, a writer for The New York Times, discusses the demise and influence of the mock tabloid Weekly World News, which folded in July after almost three decades of […]

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14 Aug

Bloggers good for journalism?

In a column for the Toronto Star, David Eave and Taylor Owen, both bloggers, take a look back at the influence the blogosphere has had on journalism since bloggers first […]

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14 Aug

AbitibiBowater merger bad news for papers

Konrad Yakabuski, a Globe and Mail columnist, reveals what the recent friendly merger of Montreal-based Abitibi Consolidated Inc. and its U.S. rival Bowater Inc. says about the state of the […]

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14 Aug

Canadians want media variety

Steve Anderson, a Vancouver-based journalist, comments on the possible impact of several recent media mergers in Canada in a recent edition of The Tyee.

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14 Aug

Why youth are tuning CBC out

In a recent edition of The Tyee Elaine Corden, a freelance writer, comments on the success (or failure) of CBC’s latest ventures aimed at attracting a new fresh-faced audience to […]

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14 Aug

Paper redesigns fit for the blue bin

Bill Reynolds, a Ryerson University journalism professor and editor of the Ideas section of J-Source, rails against the latest redesigns of The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star in […]

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14 Aug

Writing and using effective links in online stories

Poynter’s Chip Scanlan has started a new series called the ABC’s of Online Journalism. In this, his first column, he describes his views about when and how links should be used […]

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14 Aug

Bye Bye la menace Internet?

Clothilde Le Coz, blogmedias.com Fini le temps où Internet annonçait la fin de la télévision et mettait la presse au bord du gouffre… Non seulement Internet « complète » mais […]

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14 Aug

Journalism schools out-of-date

An article from Insidehighered.com about how journalism schools are falling behind and failing to adapt to the new media world. As a result, students are not learning the skills they […]

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14 Aug

Criminal charges in India for writer

Author Taslima Nasreen, whose writing about women’s lives so offends conservative Muslims there’s a bounty (fatwa) on her head and she’s banished in her native Bangladesh, is reportedly charged in […]

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