Archive
30 Jul

CTV report on mid-air helicopter crash

Following the mid-air helicopter collision that killed four news station employees in Phoenix on July 27, CTV.ca features a contextual AP story about the event and a video clip from Saturday’s national news broadcast that shows […]

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30 Jul

Global media reporting on HIV/AIDS: survey

To evaluate perceptions on how the news media reports on HIV/AIDS, Internews Network, with partners Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS and the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations […]

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30 Jul

Corrections we’d like to see

Norman Solomon at TomPaine.com has composed a series of mock corrections that describe the journalistic offenses many news organizations should really be regretting.

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30 Jul

J-blogs now a wiki at Cyberjournalist.net

In an effort to keep its journalism blogs list up-to-date, Cyberjournalist.net has transformed the list into a wiki, allowing users to edit the list themselves.

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30 Jul

How newspapers can thrive on the web

Robin Miller — owner of such high-profile sites as Slashdot, SourceForge and ThinkGeek — groups his ideas for local news online success under four sub-headings: Where’s the calendar?; Beat local TV at its […]

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29 Jul

Black was overdone by media, suggests poll

As a reader, my eyes started glazing over every time there was another headline about Conrad Black, and I turned off the radio or TV when the news turned to […]

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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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