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14 Jun

Naked Lie vs. Naked Truth

“…It is the duty of the international community, as well as media watchdog organizations, to apply pressure on autocratic governments so that they do not abandon basic freedom and liberties,” […]

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13 Dec

Simile

Studies In Media & Information Literacy Education (SIMILE) provides a venue for scholarly articles that bridge the subject areas of media and information literacy. SIMILE is interested in publishing research […]

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13 Dec

Halberstam dies in car crash

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam, 73, died yesterday in a car accident in California. The New York Times reports that Halberstam was on his way to interview former football great […]

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13 Dec

Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

Published quarterly for the Broadcast Education Association, the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media contains timely articles about new developments, trends, and research in electronic media written by academicians, researchers, […]

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13 Dec

Teaching online journalism

This website provides a well organized list of useful resources and tip sheets for writing and producing journalism for presentation online. It’s put together by Mindy McAdams, who teaches online […]

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13 Dec

Narrative journalism comes of age

Narrative journalism in newspapers is the sensitive subject taken on by Mark Kramer in this essay from Nieman Reports. Declining readership and the search for more “remedies to widespread current […]

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13 Dec

<i>Toronto Sun</i> struggles

Globe media reporter Grant Robertson details the declining fortunes of the Toronto Sun, once one of the fastest growing newspapers in Canada. Today, under owner Quebecor Inc., the tab is […]

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13 Dec

Documentary director dies at 49

Lindalee Tracey is remembered in an obituary by Globe and Mail writer Sandra Martin.

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13 Dec

Gannett modernizing local newsrooms for 24-hour news world

Gannett newspapers are revamping their local newsrooms to accommodate a 24-hour news cycle in which reporters will file text, sound, and video to varioius media platforms including paper, the web […]

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13 Dec

Middle East news station to broadcast in English

The Canadian Journalist blogs on Al-Jazeera’s launch of a new English-language channel scheduled for Nov.15, and the CRTC’s history with the network. Al-Jazeera is an all-news satellite TV station based […]

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