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23 May

MIT among news challenge winners

MIT has been awarded $5 million by the Knight Foundation to create a centre focused on high-tech community news. That project earned the largest single award in a $25-million world-wide “news […]

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23 May

Ethiopia frees detained journalists

Three New York Times journalists, including Nairobi bureau chief Jeffrey Gettleman, have been freed after five days of detention in Ethiopia, the Times reports. The three, who were in Ethiopia […]

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23 May

Business reporting tutorials

This tutorials page at BusinessJournalism.org provides a series of lessons for business reporters prepared by journalism and business professors. Topics include: covering financial markets, using numbers effectively, understanding financial statements, […]

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23 May

Sports pathfinder

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Sport Canadahttp://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/sc/Part of the federal Department Of Canadian Heritage. DOCH mission is “Towards a More Cohesive and Creative Canada”. Sport Canada aims to improve amateur athletics by […]

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23 May

Landing a top editing job by 2010

Ed 2010 is a group of young j-school grads who’ve pooled their resources, knowledge and job gossip together to help reach their goals of landing a top editing job at […]

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23 May

Social networking resources

Social Networks have received a great deal of attention lately with the increasing popularity of websites such as MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn. But research using social network analysis (or what […]

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23 May

Press freedom eroded in ’06

Nearly two-thirds of the Earth’s population live in places where the press is not free or only partly free, according to the annual global survey of press freedom released by […]

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23 May

Dealing with evasive politicians

QUESTION: How do you get politicians to answer tough questions? Getting a politician to talk to you isn’t difficult but getting one to answer the questions you want answered often […]

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23 May

As the spirit moves them…

by Heather Rivers and Elliot Ferguson We both had noted the changing scene in the religious community for several months. Heather had noticed that mainstream Protestant and Catholic congregations were […]

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23 May

‘Public’ file anything but: Access denied in dog photo case

By Tracey TylerToronto Star Legal Affairs ReporterIt was only a picture of a dog. But it was guarded like a state secret. Somewhere in an Ontario court file there’s a […]

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