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26 Apr

D.B. Scott wins NMAF Award for Outstanding Achievement

Industry guru D.B Scott has won the 2010 Award for Outstanding Achievement, granted each year by the National Magazine Awards Foundation. As the NMAF presser says: “With a dynamic career […]

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26 Apr

More on professionalizing journalism

Disclosure: This radio clip link is for a show done by my friend, Sean Holman, and includes my husband, Alan Bass, who has been researching and speaking on professionalizing journalism […]

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26 Apr

What Jay Rosen knows about journalism

Jay Rosen’s been teaching journalism for a quarter-century and, recognizing the milestone, he’s written about what he thinks he knows about it. Given the changes that have occurred in the […]

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25 Apr

Election countdown

Terry Milewski is getting drowned out, Elizabeth May is getting left out, and tweeters everywhere are getting ready to speak out. As the clock ticks down to e-day, follow the […]

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25 Apr

Élections 2011: journalistes et médias sociaux

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;">La dernière ligne droite de la première campagne électorale fédérale 2.0 est lancée. Au cours des dernières semaines, journalistes et politiciens ont été nombreux à intégrer les médias sociaux à leur quotidien. Si bien que le sujet a fait couler beaucoup d'encre depuis un mois. La base de données Eureka recense en effet plus de 700 textes en anglais et en français comportant les termes «médias sociaux» et «campagne électorale» depuis 30 jours.</p>

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25 Apr

Magazine launch pad: It’s Your Life; MMA Guide

Before launching It’s Your Life, Terri-Ann Cormier didn’t know squat about the publishing biz, but that didn’t stop her from following her dream. Literally. The founder of the new Maritimes-based […]

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24 Apr

The Bang-Bang Club

Salon has an interesting article on war-zone journalism, one that is unfortunately apropos today.

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24 Apr

Investing in investigative work

“Where the marketplace is unable to serve, that’s the role of public media,” PBS president Paula Kerger said last year. It appears PBS and NPR are putting that motto into […]

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24 Apr

Reporter’s questions to Harper drowned out by partisan supporters?

More turbulent relations between journalists and Stephen Harper on the campaign trail.  A crowed of partisan supporters apparently led by Conservative staffers, created shouting chaos when CBC’s Terry Milewski pressed […]

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21 Apr

University of Colorado shutters Boulder J-School

Last week, the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents voted to close its School of Journalism, located at the Boulder campus. Before you start blaming it on industry tumult, though, […]

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