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26 Apr

En nomination pour la Couverture de l’année

En nomination «Couverture de l’année» Grands Prix des Magazines du Québec

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26 Apr

Students win travel journalism award

Chantaie Allick and Margaret Cappa are this year’s winners of The Carleton Norway Journalism Travel Award, which offers two journalism students an opportunity to travel, work and conduct research of […]

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25 Apr

Fire the editors, and keep working till you die

For the last few months, I had been looking forward to attending the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva. This is the sixth meeting of a group that brings together […]

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23 Apr

“Public trust” side of CanWest sale

Canada’s largest media union has told the bankers auctioning the CanWest chain of newspapers to consider the “public trust.” The company’s newspaper division is under bankruptcy protection and its bankers […]

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23 Apr

Michel Dumais becomes Editor-in-Chief of ProjetJ

ProjetJ, the French-language sister site of J-Source, will have a new Editor-in-Chief, Michel Dumais, as of this coming May 1st. A fiercely independent journalist for over 15 years, and a columnist […]

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23 Apr

Top ten stories of the decade

New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has released a list of the decade’s top ten works of American journalism. Good for Friday-afternoon procrastination, er, research. 1. “A Nation […]

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23 Apr

HuffPo turns five

May 9th marks the fifth anniversary of The Huffington Post, which now holds 10th place in Neilsen’s news standing after an explosive year of readership growth that made it the […]

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22 Apr

Leaked CBC radio employee survey: “what morale?”

A new survey of dispirited national CBC Radio News reporters was recently leaked online. Reporters weighed in on the organization’s new multi-platform news desk. The CBC reports: “The survey revealed […]

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22 Apr

The Voice of Newfoundland

Susan Newhook reviews a new book by author Jeff Webb. The Voice of Newfoundland chronicles the decade-long social history of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland. Jeff Webb’s social history of […]

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22 Apr

What HST means for magazines

As of July 1st, Canada will roll out its new Harmonized Sales Tax: a lovely name that essentially means the GST and PST will be crammed together. So what? If […]

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