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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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13 Dec

Bad financial news can be good news for journalism

Jack Shafer argues in a Slate.com column that recent bad financial news at newspapers does not have to mean bad news for journalism. Shafer calls for newspapers to drop their […]

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13 Dec

New study says newsroom investment pays off

Reuters journalist, Robert MacMillan reports that a recent U.S. study shows that newspapers executives who have invested more money in editorial have made more money in the long term. MacMillan […]

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