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27 Feb

Americans prefer “junk” to “nutritional” news stories

Canadian journalist and blogger Deborah Jones laments the short attention spans of media organizations and their readers. She says the American public would rather read “junk” about the demise of […]

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26 Feb

CanWest takes over New Republic

CanWest has obtained majority control over the U.S.New Republic magazineand plans totransform it from a neo-conservative weekly into a beefier “centre-left”biweekly, the New York Times reports. The redesigned magazine debuts […]

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26 Feb

Todd heads to CTV

Paula Todd, who has become a fixture on TVO, is joining CTV News starting March 1, Broadcaster magazine reports. Todd, whowas host of Person 2 Person at TVO, is to […]

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26 Feb

Astral Media to buy Standard Broadcasting

A deal between Astral Media Inc. and Standard Broadcasting Corp. Ltd. that would create Canada’s largest network of commercial radio stations is imminent, reports the Globe and Mail. Astral would […]

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26 Feb

Chewing the Canadian Bacon

Chewing the Canadian Bacon is a community-based website that aims at providing Canadians with a medium for discussion, debate and the free exchange of ideas and opinions. It specifically caters […]

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21 Feb

The challenge of teaching business journalism

An article by a Mark Anderson, a teacher at Algonquin College in Ottawa, about the special challenges of making young journalism students see the value in learning business journalism. The […]

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21 Feb

CBC’s index of great interviews

The new CBC.ca inludes a page of links to a collection of interviews with great Canadians. The collection includes both radio and television interviews. A terrific resource.

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21 Feb

Loosening lips

Pulitzer-prize winning reporter, Eric Nalder, formerly of the Seattle Times, now with the San Jose Mercury News, has given workshops on interviewing to reporters for years. His tips for doing […]

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21 Feb

Online news terms

A helpful glossary of definitions from the Online Journalism Review about the common jargon used in Web journalism.

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21 Feb

Online storytelling forms

A great list of the variety of ways in which news can be presented online, taking advantage of the unique features of the Internet from Jonathan Dube, the editor of […]

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