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29 Jul

Even the Internet needs editors

Gary Kamiya, a writer-at-large for Salon, sings the largely unsung praises of newspaper editors. And the former editor argues the one medium that has traditionally resisted editors the most — the […]

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29 Jul

Sicko whets public’s appetite for muckraking journalism

Steven Winn, a movie critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, finds that the success of Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Sicko, is due in part to its muckraking style of journalism […]

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29 Jul

Papers weigh in on Black legal saga

The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Times, and the Telegraph give their take on the ongoing Conrad Black legal saga. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat_canada0714jul14,0,2124790.story?coll=chi-business-hed http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/14/wblack314.xml http://business.guardian.co.uk/conradblacktrial/story/0,,2126333,00.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2072850.ece

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29 Jul

New media and the CRTC

Kelly Toughill, a journalism professor at King’s College, questions whether two upcoming reports commissioned by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on their policies and a series of hearings on […]

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29 Jul

Stop being a stenographer

John Kampfner, an editor at the New Statesman, calls on reporters to stop being “stenographers” for powerful politicians and to start doing more “intrepid reporting or digging,” in a recent […]

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27 Jul

Journalists and Facebook

To answer the questions “What’s in (Facebook) for journalists? For journalism? And for news organizations, at large?” editors at Poynter.org established a Facebook group called “Journalists and Facebook.” They invited about 25 […]

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27 Jul

Algues bleues: une crise qui n’en est pas une

François Cardinal, La PresseEt l’épidémie d’algues bleues? La saison touristique ruinée ? N’y a-t-il pas crise ?Eh bien ! non. Il y a certes problème, mais il n’y a pas […]

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27 Jul

Le Devoir banni des spectacles de The Police à Montréal

Julie Rheaume, AgenceNews Dans son édition d’aujourd’hui, le journal montréalais indépendant Le Devoir dénonce le fait qu’il ne puisse assister aux spectacles donnés par le groupe The Police à Montréal. […]

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27 Jul

Le mal du siècle

Roger Duval, Granby, La Voix de l’Est Les médias apportent avec eux leur lot de mauvaises nouvelles et on pourrait croire que tout va mal partout dans le monde. L’actualité […]

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27 Jul

Pourquoi Le Devoir n’ira pas voir The Police

Jean-François Nadeau, Le Devoir «You don’t have to put on the red light / Those days are over», chantait Sting dans Roxanne. C’était il y a plus de 20 ans. […]

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