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21 Jun

The bear facts: A local story goes viral, and speaks volumes about the state of broadcast news

In 2009 the story of a bear sighting in Cleveland became world famous. Not because of the bear, but because of the way the story was covered. Field Notes editor […]

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21 Jun

Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter’s Research Guide, second edition

After a year of teaching with the text, J-Source asked two j-school profs what they thought of Robert Cribb, Dean Jobb, David McKie, Fred Vallance-Jones’ second edition of Digging Deeper: […]

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21 Jun

Inside Christie Blatchford’s goodbye party

J-Source reporter Alex Bosanac caught up with the former Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford at the paper’s send-off party last week to chat about Blatchford’s move to Postmedia, her […]

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21 Jun

Echoes of a Proud Nation: full documentary

Reporting within a small community presents its own challenges, but media in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake face a much larger, longstanding conflict with neighbouring Francophone media. The community of […]

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21 Jun

Vancouver riot: Is social media becoming the surveillance society?

The Vancouver riot aftermath gives us a sobering glimpse of the future of the Internet, some commentators are noting. Has society created the court of Facebook? First there was the […]

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20 Jun

Convergence, multiplateforme et déclin du journalisme indépendant

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20 Jun

Toronto Sun columnist honoured by Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame

Longtime Toronto Sun baseball columnist Bob Elliott — also known as Whispering Bob — has been honoured with the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s Jack Graney Award, presented to media […]

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20 Jun

WMA winners announced

Winners of the 2011 Western Magazine Awards were announced Friday in Vancouver. Swerve magazine was the biggest winner of the night, taking home Western Canada magazine of the year, as […]

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20 Jun

New publication to focus on dangers to female journalists

It’s a hot topic, with many controversial overtones. But the International News Safety Institute plans to tackle it head-on in a new guide to safety for female journalists, and it […]

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20 Jun

Chequebook journalism

Is chequebook journalism resurfacing? Check out CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe’s blog, themediamanager.com, which highlights two recent cases in the States. In one case, ABC paid a woman who received texts […]

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