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28 Mar

Ivory Coast journalists caught in the crossfire

(The below is an excerpt from an interview that originally appeared on ProjetJ in French). The security and humanitarian situation in Ivory Coast is quickly deteriorating. Journalists are being targeted […]

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28 Mar

Election 2011: Canada’s first social media election

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s fifth year in office coincides with the fifth anniversary of Twitter. The social media platform adds a “new intensity to this election,” Bill Curry writes for […]

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28 Mar

Shaky coverage in Japan

The quake and nuclear risk were bad enough. Why did some media have to make it worse? The Tyee’s Crawford Kilian reports. As soon as I heard about Japan’s 9.0 […]

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27 Mar

Les journalistes ivoiriens veulent être évacués

La situation sécuritaire et humanitaire se dégrade en Côte d’Ivoire. Directement pris pour cible autant par les partisans du président sortant, Laurent Gbagbo, que par ceux de son rival, Alassanne […]

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25 Mar

La Buzz: la madamisation

Chaque vendredi, «le Buzz» revient sur les sujets qui ont attiré le plus votre attention sur notre site et notre fil Twitter au cours de la semaine. Au cours des […]

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25 Mar

Gesca licencie 9 personnes à La Tribune

Texte modifié post-publication Dans l’incapacité d’en arriver à une convention collective négociée avec ses 130 syndiqués, la direction du quotidien La Tribune, à Sherbrooke, leur a présenté ce matin un […]

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25 Mar

Harper falls, but he still won’t talk to journos

Even after Parliament voted Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government in contempt, the notoriously tight-lipped PM refused to talk to journalists. The Toronto Star, National Post, CBC and Globe and […]

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25 Mar

CBC looking for citizen bloggers for election coverage

Following its G20 experiement with citizen bloggers, the CBC is on the hunt for savvy citizens who “will blog about the impact of the 2011 federal election, from their part […]

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25 Mar

Should a news agency have its own army?

In a column for Maclean’s, Colby Cosh has plenty of praise for al-Jazeera, but worries there’s an ethical issue involving its owner’s recent pledge to fight against Libya. Cosh prefaces […]

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25 Mar

China isn’t censoring Shakespeare: Blogger factchecks NYT lede

Shanghai-based American writer Adam Minter, writing for his blog Shanghai Scrap, did a bit of factchecking into a New York Times lede that claimed China was censoring Shakespeare quotes said […]

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