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17 Mar

Using LinkedIn: a journalist’s guide

By Kim Pittaway Facebook, Facebook, Facebook. Given the number of stories about social networking that focus almost exclusively on the electronic equivalent of the world’s largest high school hallway, you […]

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17 Mar

Canadians win travel journalism awards

The North American Travel Journalists Association Awards honours the best of travel writing and photography by travel journalists in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The event, in its 18th […]

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16 Mar

PR provides half the news published in Australian newspapers

About 55 per cent of the news published by Australian newspapers was fed to them by PR and marketing sources, according to a study of 10 newspapers conducted by local university students, the Australian news website […]

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16 Mar

Is journalism about hits?

In a Globe and Mail column titled “When journalism is about hits, the craft goes amiss,” Roy MacGregor discusses the dangers of confusing web page hits with circulation. He writes: […]

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16 Mar

National Newspaper Awards nominations

The National Newspaper Awards office has announced 66 finalists from 20 news organizations for this year’s honours. The Globe and Mail leads the pack with 15 finalists, followed by the […]

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16 Mar

How to negotiate the best j-school offer

Rebecca Cheung offers tips for students faced with competing offers from graduate j-schools. (And you thought applying was difficult.) The hundreds of students who applied to graduate programs in journalism […]

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16 Mar

Cracking down on web scofflaws

Pay up, or risk being shut down, U.S. web content watchdog Attributor warns. Ira Basen looks at the California-based company that targets unlicensed article reprints. Blogs and other social network […]

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16 Mar

$300,000 awarded to journos for health research

Eighteen Canadian journalists will receive funding for in-depth investigation of health issues from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR). Dr. Ian Graham, CIHR’s vice-president of knowledge translation, said in […]

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16 Mar

The new climate of doubt: naturally occurring or man-made?

In J-Source’s Town Hall this week, there’s news of how a gag order on federal environment ministry officials has effectively reduced coverage of important climate change issues. Meanwhile, a recent […]

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15 Mar

Media coverage of climate change way down, federal scientists need permission to speak

“A dramatic reduction in Canadian media coverage of climate-change science issues is the result of the Harper government introducing new rules in 2007 to control interviews by Environment Canada scientists […]

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