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14 Feb

Slate’s Jacob Weisberg slams The Daily

<p><a href="http://www.slate.com/authors.jacob_weisberg.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-style: italic;">Slate </span>chairman Jacob Weisberg</a> slammed Rupert Murdoch's new i-Pad-only newspaper <span style="font-style: italic;">The Daily</span> in a lecture to j-students.<br />

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14 Feb

An Egyptian journalist on Mubarak’s resignation

In the midst of celebration, Al Jazeera’s Ayman Mohyeldin, an Egyptian-born journalist, was asked to put aside his journalistic impartiallity for a moment to to the viewers how he personally […]

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14 Feb

Ann Coulter: “There should be more jailed journalists”

Ann Coulter thinks more journalists ought to be thrown in jail. During her speech at the annual Republican conference CPAC, Coulter was asked why her party was supportive of free […]

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14 Feb

Call for papers: covering Canadian crimes

The University of Western Ontario has put out a call for papers for a text that will examine the link between journalism and crime as it evolves in a changing […]

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14 Feb

So, you want to be a journalist?

A new website founded by Fabiola Carletti, a graduate student and teaching assistant at the UBC School of Journalism, aims to answer any question j-students and new graduates might have […]

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14 Feb

John Vaillant wins $40,000 non-fiction prize

John Vaillant’s The Tiger, which follows the plight of tigers — including a man-eating one — in Russia’s far east, has won the B.C. National Award for Non-Fiction, beating out […]

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14 Feb

Working for nothing: The social media scam

When was the last time an online media site, like the Huffington Post,  told you they couldn’t pay you for the content you were offering them but, hey, they were […]

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13 Feb

Canadian newspapers still profitable and bouncing back, according to business columnist

Pointing to StatsCan figures showing Canadian newspapers earning almost 10 percent pre-tax profits last year, The Star’s David Olive says newspapers are resilient: “The newspaper habit is stronger than ever.”

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13 Feb

It’s not just Egypt: Star covers zone of entire Middle East

Instead of concentrating its reporting force in Egypt to replicate saturation coverage already available everywhere, the Toronto Star has nine journalists covering “the Arab Awakening” from Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, […]

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11 Feb

Former Governor General Michalle Jean on her relationship with the media

On yesterday’s episode of Q, host Jian Ghomeshi speaks with former Canadian Governor General Michaëlle Jean and her husband Jean-Daniel Lafond about their relationship with the media during her tenure. […]

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