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28 Jun

Cross-dressing at the first Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education

Read our round-up for the highlight presentation and discussion on journalism and academic cross-dressing; what banned U.S. academic Bill Ayers had to say; plus what happens when academic research hits […]

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28 Jun

Beam me up Scotty: The struggle to cover health and science in daily news

CTV Health Reporter Karen Owen shares the challenges of covering highly complicated health and science stories within the confines of television news.After a recent assignment I couldn’t help but marvel […]

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28 Jun

A riot just broke out. Now what?

When the Canucks lost the cup, reporters covering the game found themselves in the middle of a riot. Dana Lacey tells us how two Vancouver newsrooms, The Province and Global […]

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28 Jun

War Torn

When foreign lands fall into chaos. In this memoir, Ryerson Review of Journalism reporter Vesna Plazacic asks why her younger self blamed Canadian media for failing to fully expose what […]

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28 Jun

Big, Brash & Bold: report says to drop all telecom-media foreign ownership limits

The CD Howe Institute’s most recent report is brash, writes Dwayne Winseck, and some might dress it up as bold, but it definitely ain’t right. Why the institute’s three-page report […]

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28 Jun

Being Frank: Inside the newsroom firings, the mag’s decision to write about it, and what’s next

Halifax-based Frank Magazine fired the majority of its newsroom last week, and then wrote about it in the current issue — with typical Frank sauciness, of course. Associate J-Source editor […]

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28 Jun

Le pluralisme à l’italienne

<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><font color="#000000"><i>Par <b>Geneviève Gagné</b>, collaboratrice en Italie</i></font></p>

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27 Jun

Content-farming, and what it means for journalism.

“The content farms have taken journalism hackwork to a whole new level.” A highly critical look at factory journalism: online companies like Associated Media and Demand Media that generate enormous […]

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27 Jun

Radio-Canada veut prévenir les compressions budgétaires

Le gouvernement conservateur promet de mettre la hache dans ses dépenses pour l’an prochain. 67 ministères et organismes doivent procéder à «un examen stratégique et fonctionnel» afin de réduire leurs […]

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27 Jun

New Twitter for Newsrooms best practices guide #tfn

Twitter wants to help you find sources, verify facts, publish stories – and – to promote yourself, “faster and faster”! So, it has published a new guide with four sections: […]

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