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13 Aug

TorStar for sale?

Will the Toronto Star, Canada’s biggest newspaper, be in play on the stock market? The Globe and Mail’s Grant Robertson and Gordon Pitts examine that question in a piece about […]

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13 Aug

Media have tribes?

The latest Pew Research Center study on how Americans regard their news media will be a downer for many professional journalism: distrust, division and the emergence of media tribes. I […]

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13 Aug

Climate change beat guide

This guide to “information and disinformation” prepared by the Society of Environmental Journalists helps reporters navigate the issue. It includes links to backgrounders and various organizations who both support and […]

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13 Aug

“Fake cardboard buns” journalist sentenced to 1 year in jail

A Chinese journalist who faked a story about steamed buns filled with cardboard was sentenced to to a year in jail and a fine of 1,000 yuan (C$97), according to […]

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12 Aug

CP reporters win justice award

Jim Bronskill and Sue Bailey, both Canadian Press reporters, won the Justicia Award for excellence in print journalism, for a five-part series about mentally ill people within Canada’s justice system. […]

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11 Aug

Canadian-Somalian journalists killed

A report by the CBC  says two journalists killed in Somalia today had lived in Ottawa before returning to Somalia in 1999 to help build an independent press. There are […]

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11 Aug

Ethics in the age of digital photography

“One of the major problems we face as photojournalists is that the public is losing faith in us,” writes John Long, co-chair of the U.S. National Press Photographers Association ethics […]

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11 Aug

Fake or photo? Take the challenge

Do you think you know what’s real? The Fake or Photo website offers a test of your ability to tell digital creations apart from reality. A sobering experience for photo […]

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10 Aug

Reuters’ “sinking feeling”

Busted by a 13-year old. Ouch. After a boy in Finland noticed pictures carried by Reuters looked like subs in the movie Titanic, the news agency was forced to admit […]

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10 Aug

L’ancien journaliste de Radio Canada Michel Morin est nommé au CRTC

Showbizz.net / Presse canadienne Le journaliste à la retraite Michel Morin mettra dorénavant son expérience au service du Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC). M. Morin, ancien […]

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