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31 Mar

Is journalism school becoming an endangered species?

Despite the shrinking papers and shrinking bankbooks, demand for an education in journalism is soaring, and competition for a classroom spot (like that for careers in journalism) is fierce. But […]

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31 Mar

Long news

Kirk Citron: “In the long run, some stories are going to matter more than others.”

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30 Mar

As It Happens co-host resigns

Barbara Budd has left CBC Radio One after 17 years as co-host of current affairs program As It Happens. Her last broadcast will be Friday, April 30. Budd spoke with […]

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30 Mar

To tweet or not to tweet?

Last Monday, Carleton University’s School of Journalism participated in a class experiment in Twitter. As result, the school’s political reporting course topped Twitter’s Canadian trends for the day. But is […]

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30 Mar

Spy vs. Lie

Our Man in Tehran, a new book by Robert Wright, suggests Canadian Ken Taylor was a CIA spy, and news outlets were quick to jump on the label. But reviewer […]

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30 Mar

Reporting Haiti: Whose Voice? Whose Rules?

Fresh from covering Haiti’s earthquake, four Canadian journalists discuss ethical dilemmas and disaster porn. Sylvia Squair reports on the CJF’s forum: Stories from Haiti: A Round Table Discussion with Reporters […]

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30 Mar

Hot spotlight on weathermen and women

Meteorologists — whose faces are on television as weather forecasters — have become the target of climate change activists because so many in the U.S.  are climate-chance skeptics, reported the […]

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30 Mar

A capital where freedom’s in short supply

by Lawrence Martin (This column originally appeared in The Globe and Mail and is reproduced by permission of the author.) It’s always great fun to see conservatives getting all worked […]

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30 Mar

SPJ condemns ABC’s “checkbook journalism”

The Society of Professional Journalists isn’t happy with the “growing trend of checkbook journalism”, and released a statement citing the recent admission that ABC paid the family of a murdered […]

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30 Mar

Hope for the international beat?

In recent years J-Source has covered the retreat of foreign reporting, including the closure of the Globe and Mail’s Moscow bureau, the loss of some leading CBC foreign correspondents.  Internationally, […]

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