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29 Mar

June 26-30, 2007: Great Lakes Environmental Journalism Training Institute

Learn environmental science from scientists and return home with a passel of story ideas before your boss even knows that you are gone. And have fun doing it: Participants in […]

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29 Mar

Afghan media’s hard-won rights threatened

After a five-year struggle tobuild up ademocratic society, Afghan mediaare starting to lose ground. New legislation expected to be debated in Parliament within weeks threatens to return power to the […]

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29 Mar

Magazine readership rankings released

Reader’s Digest is still the most widely read magazine in Canada, followed not so closely by Canadian Geographic, Canadian Living and Chatelaine (down two spots from last year). Media in […]

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28 Mar

The two key ingredients to a good piece of broadcast journalism

Ira Glass, longtime radio producer for National Public Radio talks on camera about the two most important elements in any good piece of journalism.

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28 Mar

Telling great radio stories

Ira Glass has built a reputation for being one of America’s great radio storytellers and is now the producer of National Public Radio’s This American Life. In this three part […]

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28 Mar

Dying columnist’s recantation a fake

A controversial right-wing columnist in the U.S., a supposed death-bed conversion to the Democratic way and a disgruntled one-time journalism teacher are all part ofa bizarre story from Fox News.

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28 Mar

Deep Throat notes published online

Bob Woodward’s typewritten notes from his famous parking ramp meetings with Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) have been published online. The University of Texas at Austin purchased the notes along […]

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27 Mar

News readers more plugged in, study says

People who frequently consume news are more involved in civic activity, according to a study reported in the online edition of the Globe and Mail today. The study was based […]

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26 Mar

The banality of spinning

By Kelly Toughill Ira Basen’s chilling new radio documentary, Spin Cycles, details with horrible clarity exactly how news is routinely manufactured and manipulated in this country and abroad. The show […]

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26 Mar

Freelancers vs. editors

On his blog Canadian Magazines, magazine industry observer and consultant D.B. Scott lists comments from both freelancers and editors on how they handle working with each other.

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