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3 Aug

Documents in the raw undermine propaganda

While the leaking of Afghan war documents has been criticized in some Canadian columns, on the pages of J-Source WikiLeaks is described as citizen journalism we need and a new […]

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3 Aug

I write like…

When you first embarked on your career in journalism, who did you want to be? A newer, hipper version of Tom Wolfe? Hunter S. Thompson? John Hersey? Chuck Klosterman? Joan […]

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29 Jul

Magazine classics re-imagined for digital age

What would some of our most beloved magazine stories look like if they were written today? The Pitch re-imagines stories by literary journalism pioneers Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom […]

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29 Jul

WikiLeaks vs NYT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called the New York Times “pusillanimous” and “unprofessional” after the publication chose not to link to the leaked Afghan war log documents directly. NYT chastised […]

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29 Jul

Murdoch jacks Obama’s WSJ subscription by half a mil

The Rupert-Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has increased the White House’s subscription bill by half a million dollars to $600,000 a year. Politico reports: ““Obviously, we’re not paying $500,000. This is […]

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29 Jul

Better to drip than to leak

Slate’s Jack Shafer offers some unsolicited tips for how WikiLeaks could make the most out of its next big scoop – and explains why the current leak has fallen flat. […]

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29 Jul

Citizen vs. mainstream journalism

The credibility of what is called “citizen journalism” took a big hit this week, according to Eric Morse, a former Canadian diplomat who is now vice-chair of the Security Studies […]

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29 Jul

Communications revenue up 2%: CRTC report

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released its annual Communications Monitoring report, based on 2009 data, which found that the industry accounts for 4.6% of Canada’s GDP after […]

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29 Jul

Arts journalists forced to become artists

Like an actor who waits tables for a living, underemployed arts journalists are becoming more like artists in terms of the “piecemeal way that they are scratching out their existence […]

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29 Jul

Blatchford faults media for believing friendly-fire reports

In a column for the Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford writes that the Canadian media were too quick to jump on reports that friendly fire had killed four Canadian soldiers. […]

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