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10 Feb

Five ways to stay focused

Mark S. Luckie from 10,000 Words recently posted a list of five tricks to improving your writing and concentration. It’s good advice for anyone, but especially for those that find […]

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10 Feb

2010 Olympic freebies: media MUST come clean

As a longtime journalist, Harvey Oberfeld wants to see the Vancouver Olympics fairly reported and commented upon. So he needs to be assured the media are not on the take. […]

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10 Feb

Canwest sale “heats up”, Globe reports

The sale of Canwest Global Communications Corp. “will likely be completed by April,” The Globe and Mail reports, as two leading consortiums are preparing to make bids. According to sources […]

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9 Feb

Stifling free speech is not really free

By Salim Mansur This column was first published by Sun Media and appears here by permission of the author. Free speech is not merely an ornamental bauble found in liberal […]

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9 Feb

Now the details

Jeffrey Dvorkin describes his blog as “an examination of what works and what doesn’t in media, ethics and journalism. And why.” 

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9 Feb

Brown wins Charles Taylor Prize

Toronto based author and Globe and Mail journalist Ian Brown is the winner of the 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Brown was chosen for his memoir The Boy […]

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9 Feb

All about paywalls

It looks like paywalls are going to be a fact of life, writes Ira Basen, after The New York Times announced plans to raise a “metered paywall” on its website.  […]

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9 Feb

Olympic cheerleading stains journalists’ credibility

The Winter Olympic Games are more about marketing  and corporations than athletes — and journalists should not become part of all the hype and hoopla, argues Jim Van Horne. In […]

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9 Feb

No medals for Canada

If freedom of expression were an Olympic event, Canada’s medal hopes would not be looking so good, according to this J-Source post. The post is a response to the detaining […]

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9 Feb

J-school faculty out of date

Are J-schools bad for the news business? A visiting professor at Ryerson University, Jeffrey Dvorkin asks the question this week on his blog. Dvorkin, a former chief journalist at CBC […]

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