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6 Apr

Atlantic Journalism Awards announce nominees

The Atlantic Journalism Awards (AJAs) have announced the finalists for the May 8 gala in Halifax. Nominations span 30 categories in news, print and radio and online.   AJAs’ Lifetime […]

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6 Apr

“Dead bastards” — US gunmen kill Reuters workers

The video released by WikiLeaks of a killing by American gunmen in military helicopters, which included two Reuters employees, is grim watching. The New York Times story is almost as […]

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6 Apr

Reporters investigate paedophiles, called “stool pigeons”

“A French documentary sparked a media ethics controversy on Tuesday after journalists handed over the names of 22 suspected paedophiles to police in Canada and France,” reported Agence France-Presse.  “Reporters […]

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6 Apr

Ken Whyte versus the RRJ

Not 24 hours after a Ryerson Review of Journalism story on publisher Kerry Mitchell went online, Rogers publisher Ken Whyte sent a letter to the editor expressing his “disappointment” with […]

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6 Apr

Nellie Bly need not apply

This week J-Source did a double take on sexist language in the media. A review of past posts suggests that how female politicians are treated in the news may be […]

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6 Apr

Investigative reporting: stronger south of the border?

Does the Civil War, conspiracy theories and hostility toward the elite make for better journalism? Jeffrey Dvorkin examines the shortfalls of Canada’s investigative reporting as it compares to the United […]

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5 Apr

Journaliste multi plates-formes à Haïti

Jean-Hugues Roy, de Radio-Canada, s’est rendu en Haïti durant un mois pour couvrir les efforts de reconstruction après le séisme du 12 janvier dernier. Seul avec sa caméra et son […]

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2 Apr

Pullman’s defence of free speech

Gotta love Philip Pullman: “It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without […]

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1 Apr

Sniffy content?

You’d be an April fool to turn up your nose at the Vancouver Sun‘s “innovative “four-dimensional” newspaper technology project, the first of its kind in the world.” The paper announced […]

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31 Mar

Is the National Post misogynist?

My calendar says it’s 2010. I checked, because exposure to the latest debates about the National Post made me wonder if I’d time-traveled to the 1960s and ’70s. Early this […]

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