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1 Dec

Reader’s Digest slashes FT copy-editing, fact-checking jobs

Reader’s Digest‘s famed fact-checking and copy-editing departments have just taken a blow. Masthead reports that the magazine has cut all full-time jobs in both departments: “The move, which affects seven […]

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1 Dec

WikiLeaked cable calls out CBC for stereotyping Americans

Among the thousands of leaked documents released by whistleblowing site WikiLeaks this week is a cable warning Washington that certain CBC programs perpetuate negative American stereotypes, at the potential cost […]

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1 Dec

HuffPo in T.O.: convergence is the future

Arianna Huffington, founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of news site Huffington Post, thinks newspapers are always going to be around, and that Canada is on the right track to a bright […]

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1 Dec

In SEO writing, algorithms replace journalists

CBC’s Ira Basen talks about the value of search capabilities his new documentary Engineering Search: The story of the algorithm that changed the world, where he explores the past present […]

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1 Dec

University of Calgary students win Facebook free speech battle

Students Steven and Keith Pridgen were suspended from the University of Calgary two years ago, for comments they made against their Law and Society course professor in November 2007, on […]

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30 Nov

Quebecor crie au règlement de compte

Accusée lors du congrès de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) d’avoir dicté un texte à la défense de son patron Pierre-Karl Péladeau, la directrice de la section […]

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30 Nov

After the explosion, injured photographer keeps shooting

The New York Times has posted on its site today photographs taken in Afghanistan by Joao Silva right up to when he stepped on a landmine and lost both his […]

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30 Nov

Outsourced and mass-produced: The Giller winner

Have you heard author Johanna Skibsrud’s voice travelling across our nation? Awarded the 17th annual Scotiabank Giller Prize on November 9th 2010, Skibsrud’s book The Sentimentalists is hot off the […]

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30 Nov

Journalist on the run

   On a fall evening, after dark, you might find Luis Horacio Najera in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, peering down the desolate alleyways with a small Canon digital camera in his […]

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30 Nov

Always act normal: Photog explores conflict photojournalism

Uncompromising and raw, Photog uses new media to give a glimpse into the world of conflict photojournalism. The first rule of conflict photography: never let your boss know you’re anything […]

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