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10 Aug

Le mépris non; le respect oui

La rédaction, MédiaMatin Mine de rien, l’équipe de MédiaMatinQuébec a distribué, hier matin, le trois millionième exemplaire du quotidien que les travailleurs offrent en cadeau à la population de Québec […]

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10 Aug

Quand Quebecor prend des airs de Big Brother

La rédaction, MédiaMatin Quebecor est-elle en train de dicter à la région de Québec quoi lire, quoi écouter, quoi regarder et, qui sait, veut-elle influencer suffisamment la population pour l’inciter […]

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9 Aug

Na, na, na: My way is BETTER!

A website is a website is a website, argues Steve Safran in this column: The more tools we keep giving journalism, the more journalists keep arguing over the tools. What […]

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9 Aug

Morin new CRTC commissioner

Former Radio-Canada journalist Michel Morin was appointed this week as commissioner with the Canadian radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. Morin retired from Radio-Canada two years ago, after 34 years as a […]

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9 Aug

Corporate control of information

A couple of interesting items this week about corporate control of public information: A major U.S. telco censored two lines in a telecast of the band Pearl Jam. The lines […]

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9 Aug

Yahoo grilled over role in Chinese jailing

The behaviour of Yahoo and Google in China has long been controversial, because of allegations that the companies comply with Chinese censorship. Now Yahoo is on the hot seat before […]

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8 Aug

Deadlines: it’s make or break for freelancers

by Lezlie Lowe Do you own a calendar and know where to locate it? Yes, you say? Then you’re already a step ahead of scads of freelance journalists out there […]

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7 Aug

Info-porn: enough already

From a report on the CBC web site: A survey conducted this July shows nearly nine out of 10 adult Americans believe there is too much coverage of celebrity scandals. […]

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7 Aug

Climate change: misreporting?

A story by Mike De Souza of CanWest concerns a report blaming mainstream U.S. media for “stalled international efforts to reach an agreement to fight climate change.” An excerpt of […]

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7 Aug

Media and Chinese Olympics

From the RSF news release in Canada:     MONTREAL, Aug. 7 /CNW Telbec/ – Reporters Without Borders staged events around the world to denounce the appalling human rights situation in […]

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