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8 Feb

Hey, new grads: I can guarantee you a job in journalism

<p>Joe Banks can guarantee you a career in journalism. Writing for <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110213001651/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/journalism/4240379/story.html#ixzz1DOHJslij" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Ottawa Citizen</a>, the Algonquin College j-prof offers the comforting guarantee to new grads. Of course, there are caveats...<br /><br />1. Get a driver's license (most small towns don't have transit)<br />2. Be prepared to work for "starting" wages<br />3. Be prepared to leave the city for small town newspapers<br />

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8 Feb

What’s up with the CRTC and the PMO?

Two recent CRTC decisions smell of business interests trumping the public interest – allowing usage-based Internet billing and relaxing truth in broadcasting requirements. In this context, news that the prime […]

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8 Feb

CBC reporter’s first night in Egypt

In last Friday’s episode of The Current, CBC’s Heba Ali recounts her first night in Egypt in a simple yet disturbing narrative. Her story begins with an eventful drive from […]

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7 Feb

Globe series highlights five Charles Taylor nominees

A new five-part Globe and Mail series pits five Charles Taylor Prize finalists against each other to debate a question a day. The prize — which includes a $25,000 awared […]

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7 Feb

Ignore the media: don’t believe the Taliban have changed

The Taliban are not softening on girls’ education, as some media have reported says Lauryn Oates, a Canadian aid worker and women right’s activist in Afganistan.On Jan. 14, the U.K.’s […]

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7 Feb

Toronto radio station has licence revoked

A community radio station has had its licence revoked by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. CKLN-FM breached “numerous regulations and conditions of licence” and failed to involve the local […]

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7 Feb

AOL to acquire Huffington Post

AOL Inc. will acquire online news and analysis site The Huffington Post in a deal with $US315-million. Thomson Reuters notes that the acqusition by the “struggling U.S. internet company” is […]

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7 Feb

HuffPo et AOL engendrent un géant de l’info en ligne

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">America on Line (AOL) et </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Huffington Post</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">, alias <span style="font-style: italic;">HuffPo</span>, ne font plus qu'un. Le portail a acquis hier le populaire site d'information pour 315 millions de dollars américains.

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7 Feb

Vanoc leaked documents requested by CBC to competitors

The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics (Vanoc), aware that the CBC was investigating the death of an Olympian luger, leaked documents to competitors The Globe and Mail and […]

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7 Feb

Why some journalists profit online, and others never will

The Online Journalism Review‘s Robert Niles examines two blog posts that illustrate two completely different attempts by writers to find their niche in the new media landscape. The first is […]

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