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7 Jan

Year of the Muslim media

Charlie Beckett, on his Guardian blog Comment is Free . . . , discusses British media coverage of Muslims in 2006. Beckett writes the “year of the Muslim media began […]

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7 Jan

Media Mensch 2006

The New York Observer names former Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet its Media Mensch 2006 “for [r]efusing to [g]ut [n]ewsroom [p]roduct.” NYO says Baquet “spit into the eye of […]

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7 Jan

Wall Street Journal launches blogs, online commmunity

Editorial executives at the Wall Street Journal are now comfortable launching blogs on the paper’s website, reports journalist Mark Glaser on his PBS blog, MediaShift. Glaser interviews WSJ.com managing editor […]

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7 Jan

Casualties of Iraq war

The New York Times looks back at 2006 with an online package, “Casualties of War.” The three-part feature leads with a picture composite, “Faces of the Dead,” which consists of […]

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7 Jan

The art of science reporting

SciDev.net reporter Elmien Wolvaardt uncovers why overly simplistic science reporting is so pervasive, noting that the media narrowly focus on breakthroughs, which don’t tell the whole story of scientific steps […]

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6 Jan

Canadians are talking online: Journalists need to join the conversation

By: Paul Benedetti What’s the future of Canadian journalism? What will Canada’s media landscape look like 10 years from now? Beats me. Only a fool would try to guess. Frankly, […]

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5 Jan

Amiel was Black’s downfall say peers

Barbara Amiel steered Conrad Black away from journalism and into the celebrity world of the super-rich, which ultimately led to the fall of Black’s Hollinger media empire, according to Black’s […]

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5 Jan

Gladwell lauds WSJ in Enron case

In his blog, The Tipping Point, author Malcolm Gladwell offers kudos to the Wall Street Journal for breaking the Enron story (vs. other interested parties who stood much more to […]

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5 Jan

CanWest bids for Alliance Atlantic

Winnipeg-based CanWest Global Communications Corp. has teamed up with Goldman Sachs & Co. to make a bid for Alliance Atlantis Communications, the Globe and Mail reported today. Can West and […]

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4 Jan

NY Times “public editor” role under review

Tipped off by a New York Observer story earlier this week, Journalism.org investigates the New York Times‘ alleged plans to terminate its ombudsman position. The position — an independent editor […]

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