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25 Aug

Journalist David Lees passes away

David Lees, a Canadian magazine writer, died Tuesday in Toronto at the age of 63, Masthead reports, writing: “Since 1977, Lees has won eight medals, two gold and six silver […]

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25 Aug

Nieman launches iPhone app

The Nieman Journalism Lab has created a new Apple app for sharing stories. On a Nieman blog post, Joshua Benton writes: “Every day, there are 16 gazillion news articles about […]

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25 Aug

Online tools for long-form journalism

Poynter Online’s Mallary Jean Tenore looks at how technology is giving long-form journalism another chance at survival. “Five guys,” Tenore writes, “…have found ways to use Web tools to renew […]

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25 Aug

The evolving definition of fact

An article by the New York Times‘ Virginia Heffernan describes a decade of transformation in the fact-checking department – and what it means online. To give readers a taste of […]

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24 Aug

Quatre journalistes quittent TVA

Après avoir perdu son courriériste parlementaire à Québec, Alexis Deschênes, TVA perd quatre autres journalistes. Maryse Gagnon et Yves Malo rejoignent les rangs de Radio-Canada, tandis que François Pouliot et […]

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24 Aug

The story behind the hot banker story

You’ve probably heard of Debralee Lorenzana – the New York City banker who was essentially fired for being too hot. How do you know? The author explains how her story […]

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24 Aug

Tweeting for votes

A look at Canadian politicians using Twitter successfully, not-so-successfully or not at all. A London Free Press article by Kate Dubinski reports that Twitter is the world’s fastest-growing social media […]

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24 Aug

Newspapers gone by 2022

Futurist Ross Dawson predicts that newspapers as we know them will be irrelevant in a decade, suggesting that journalism will be crowdsourced. In a speech to Australia’s Newspaper Publishers’ Association […]

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24 Aug

Stuff Peter Gzowski made up

A new biography of former CBC Radio journalist Peter Gzowski suggests a tumultuous private life, a fear of cameras and at least one secret child. The Canadian Press reports: “Fleming’s […]

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24 Aug

What is it with those 20-somethings? Seriously!

Aren’t you sick of being compared to a directionless couch potato? It seems like the new hot group to pick on these days is the 20-somethings, generally the just-finished-school-somethings. Apparently, […]

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