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27 Jul

Riot survival guide for journalists

Freelance journalist Dominik Bärlocher has spent the past three years on “riot duty” at a Swiss newspaper. He’s turned his experience covering violent football riots and May Day protests into […]

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27 Jul

Ottawa Citizen publisher retires

After 35 years working for the Ottawa Citizen, publisher Jim Orban will retire on Aug. 6th to pursue new opportunities, National Post president Gordon Fisher announced. The Ottawa Citizen reports: […]

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27 Jul

A new kind of journalism

The release of classified information about the Afghan War by WikiLeaks and three news organizations is being described by some as a new form of “assymetrical” journalism. In a column in […]

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27 Jul

Census debates

The Canadian Association of Journalists has waded into the census debate, telling the government, “Don’t slash our census.” Indeed, Statistics Canada data has long occupied a spot in J-Source’s resource […]

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26 Jul

WikiLeaks challenges news practices

As military officials, world leaders and politicians debate the impact of the release of  tens of thousands of raw classified field reports on the Afghan war, journalists and those who […]

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26 Jul

“We need more opinion in news, not less”

In the wake of journalists being punished and/or fired for expressing their opinions, Micheal Arrington of TechCrunch writes that readers have a right to know what a journalist’s opinions are. […]

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26 Jul

“If a big story is available to everyone equally, journalists will pass on it”: Wikileaks

Why did Wikileaks give the Afghanistan war logs to just three publications, instead of letting the world’s journalists decipher them? Founder Julian Assange says that when a story is made […]

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26 Jul

Wikileaks provides largest leak in intelligence history

The Guardian reports on the Afghan war logs – 92,201 internal records of actions by the U.S. military in Afghanistan, threat reports, descriptions of enemy attacks etc., most classified as […]

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23 Jul

Ryerson continuing ed introduces web magazine publishing

Ryerson University’s Chang School of Continuing Education will expand its magazine publishing program to include web publishing, D.B. Scott reports. The school has broadened the scope and the name of […]

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23 Jul

Journalism should save itself: Google

In response to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which said regulations should change to reflect the challenges the internet poses to journalism, Google said journalism should help itself, but hasn’t […]

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