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21 Sep

Telus s’oppose aux contenus TV mobiles exclusifs

Telus a profité aujourd’hui des audiences du CRTC portant sur l’achat de Canwest Global par Shaw pour demander au Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC) d’interdire aux […]

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21 Sep

Toronto Star anchor profile series

“The Toronto Star has launched a series of long profiles about Canada’s anchors, starting with Dawna Friesen and Lisa LaFlamme. Next up is Peter Mansbridge. The Star notes that LaFlamme […]

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21 Sep

Should journalists accept the Ross Munro award?

Canadian Press reporter Murray Brewster will be awarded the Ross Munro Media Award, sponsored by the Conference of Defence Associations and Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. Some journalists think […]

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21 Sep

Anne-Marie Mediwake, Dwight Drummond to co-anchor CBC News Toronto

CBC has announced that Anne-Marie Mediwake and Dwight Drummond will co-anchor CBC News Toronto. Mediwake comes from CBC’s weekday morning news desk while Drummond comes from a 20-year career at […]

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21 Sep

“Explain what you want from us”: Mexican paper restricts drug war coverage after journalist murdered

A photojournalist working for a newspaper in Mexico’s most violent city has been murdered, bringing Mexico’s journalist death toll to 22 in just four years. In response, the paper will […]

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21 Sep

Terry Jones syndrome: Guidelines for responsible news selection

The question “Should the media cover a little-known pastor’s Koran-burning plan?” has been widely debated. Stephen J.A. Ward asks a larger question: “How is news selected?” He offers guidelines to […]

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21 Sep

Mexique: négocier avec les narcotrafiquants ou mourir

Devant les assassinats répétés de journalistes dans la région de Ciudad Juárez, dans le nord du Mexique, le quotidien El Diario demande une trêve aux cartels de la drogue. Dans […]

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21 Sep

Responsible journalism

In one of its first tests in the courts, the new responsible journalism defence has helped an Ontario news website defeat a libel action launched by a man named in […]

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21 Sep

The community media fund that never was

The CRTC had a perfect chance to strengthen local independents. It failed. By Steve Anderson and Lindsey Pinto. Last April the CRTC conducted a hearing to review a two per […]

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21 Sep

The new breed of programmer-journalists

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="Left" alt="Craig Silverman" border="0" height="80" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Craig_Silverman.jpg" title="Craig Silverman" vspace="0" width="80" />Two U.S. J-schools are mixing computer science and journalism to create</span><br style="font-style: italic;" /><span style="font-style: italic;">a new breed of programmer-journalists. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Craig Silverman</span> reports. </span><br />

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