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5 Apr

“I’m from Rolling Stone” fails to engage viewers

Tad Friend, feature reporter for The New Yorker, reviews the MTV reality show “I’m from Rolling Stone,”which failed to attract an audience.

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5 Apr

Corporate control and the media

Richard Silkos, media reporter for The New York Times, recounts a recent personal experience that depicts for him the continuing corporate control of the news media.

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5 Apr

Are TNR and the Sun close to extinction?

Toronto Star media columnist Antonia Zerbisias, who can’t help but notice the “smell of death” emanating from all those red Toronto Sun newspaper boxes, reports on hints of the Sun’s […]

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4 Apr

PR memo reveals opinions about journalist

Wiredreporter Fred Vogelstein is “tricky” and “sensational” according to a PR firm’s internal memo that mistakenly fell into the journalist’s hands. Originally sent by Microsoft’s PR firm Waggener Edstrom Worldwide […]

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4 Apr

Arts pathfinder

SEARCH ENGINES Artistshttp://www.ccca.ca/advancedSearch.html?languagePref=en&Search for Canadian artists and/or works in the Canadian Art Database by: name, category, title, materials, residence, collections, date made and other information. Artists by categoryhttp://www.ccca.ca/artists/s-media.html?languagePref=en& Search for […]

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4 Apr

Knight Citizen News Network

The Knight Citizen News Network is a self-help portal that guides both ordinary citizens and traditional journalists in launching and responsibly operating community news and information sites and that assembles […]

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3 Apr

Feedback, please

J-Source is a new project and will always be a work in progress. Please tell us what you think.

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3 Apr

April 10, 2007: Book Launch/Signing in Toronto

To mark the anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, Indigo Books will launch THE MEDIA AND THE RWANDA GENOCIDE edited by Allan Thompson.This will take place on Tuesday, April 10 at […]

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3 Apr

Billionaire buys Tribune Co.

Property tycoon Sam Zell has purchased the Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Cubs, for $8.2 billion. Zell’s purchase of the company also includes several […]

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2 Apr

Canadian non-profit agency that trained foreign journalists folds

The Institute for Media Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS), a non-profit organization that most recently ran a controversial program to train women in journalism and the law in Afghanistan, has […]

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