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20 Apr

Study suggests web is free-range

Americans who spend a lot of time on Fox news are also more likely than most to visit the New York Times, suggests a new study by two business professors […]

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20 Apr

Facebook or face time?

It’s Digital Detox Week – so it’s timely that one of questions surfacing on J-Source is whether today’s multi-tasking journalists spend too much time chattering, and not enough time investigating. […]

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19 Apr

Écran radar

Observations fines, teintées d’humour et joliment illustrées du journaliste français J-C Féraud, qui explore les confins du nouvel environnement numérique. Amoureux du papier et du gonzo journalism sans nostalgie ni […]

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17 Apr

Journalism solution to malfeasance and accountability: study

An academic study on the re-election of corrupt politicians concludes investigative journalism is the solution. But the paper, published in the journal World Politics (PDF), warns that the disappearance of […]

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16 Apr

Talking to Americans: dishonest or funny?

It’s been years since Rick Mercer famously duped former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in an episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes‘ popular segment ‘Talking to Americans’. Now Steve Brawner, […]

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16 Apr

Anonymous no more

A Halifax newspaper has been ordered to hand over information that could identity seven anonymous online commenters. The Nova Scotia Supreme court has approved a request by Halifax firefighters to […]

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16 Apr

Tax form for freelancers

Okay not really–it’s a spoof from The New York Times‘ Op-Art page, in honour of everyone who has ever been marginally employed. Be sure to deduct your pjs. The form […]

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16 Apr

Multitasking: chatter or investigation?

Lise Bissonnette is at the center of a small controversy among the journalistic/blogging community in Quebec because of a recent talk she gave on political journalism, ProjetJ reports. Bissonnette, former […]

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14 Apr

Student journalism WIN

Last week, The College of New Jersey’s student paper, The Perspective, published an interview with Mike Huckabee, in which the former Governor of Arkansas said some colourful things about same-sex […]

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14 Apr

Where’s the (freelance) sports coverage?

QUESTION: I am a sports columnist and member of the CAJ, my work has been published in smaller newspapers and online for the past three years. I am quite aware […]

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