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15 May

Media merger madness

This CNNMoney.com story provides an overview of the recent wheeling and dealing between News Corp./Dow Jones and Thomson/Reuters and suggests why there may be more mergers on the horizon.

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14 May

Ontario limits access to court documents

NewsOntario’s Ministry of the Attorney General is restricting access to court documents that reveal the name of an alleged victim of a sexual offence, citing a 2005 Criminal Code amendment […]

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14 May

Why the outrage over Murdoch’s WSJ bid?

The Toronto Star‘s David Olive claims that The Wall Street Journal would do better in the hands of business-savvy News Corp. than the stagnant Dow Jones.

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14 May

Gannett’s “Information Center” newsroom model

In this Editors Weblog entry– part of a series previewing the World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town from June 3-6, 2007 –John Burke looks at Gannett’s strategy for handling 24-h, […]

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14 May

Newspaper awards announced

The Globe and Mail was the big winner at this year’s National Newspaper Awards, announced at a gala event onMay 11 to cap off the Newspapers ’07 conference in Winnipeg. […]

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14 May

Newsosaur denounces online news

Alan Mutter, on his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur, denounces the 24-hour online news desk as “the worst idea for newspapers” in the last decade. Mutter argues that having reporters […]

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14 May

Terror suspects’ complaints banned

The use of a publication ban to protect the fair-trial rights of an accused person headed into weird territory when a group of men being held in solitary confinement tried […]

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12 May

The defence

Reese Cleghorn, a former president of the American Journalism Review and former dean of the College of Journalism of the University of Maryland, defends journalism school — 80 percent or […]

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12 May

Journalism education overview

The online education guide provides an overview of an education in journalism: why do it, what it gets you, trends, and skills.

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12 May

An open letter to journalism school grads

Greg Lindsay, a journalism school graduate, enlightens us as to what you get for your $30K+ J-school diploma — a set of unrealistic expectations and a view from one small […]

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