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26 Jan

Free newspapers! Get your free newspapers here!

An MP in Scotland is plotting to offer a free one-year newspaper subscription to all young people in an effort to foster long-term readerships. In a column for The Scotsman, […]

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26 Jan

Journalism Integrity Award: And the winner is…

Employees who rescued a local TV station win J-Source’s first Journalism Integrity Award. J-Source editor-in-chief and chair of the awards committee, Janice Neil, explains why. “At a time when traditional […]

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26 Jan

Haiti coverage debated

Images of war and disaster are heavily sanitized in North American news. The public has become used to seeing symbols of death, not actual death. It’s a situation that leaves […]

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26 Jan

How I taught my students to think about the journalism they read

There’s no way students will read 5000-word articles every week, colleagues told Ryerson j-prof Bill Reynolds. But they did, and Reynolds learned that despite the various narcotics of the web, […]

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26 Jan

Flexibility equals success in tough job market

Five UBC journalism grads found success after j-school. Alfred Hermida explains how. Stephanie Lim is a bright twenty-something who graduated top of her class in May 2009 from the UBC […]

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25 Jan

Haitian earthquake: Its not about you, Dr. Gupta

Journalists were among the first outsiders to rush to the scene of the earthquake in Haiti. While most have described the devastation and challenges confronting survivors with professionalism and sensitivity, […]

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25 Jan

Haiti is hot, Afghanistan is not: Blatchford

“Afghanistan’s time in the sun of the world’s attention was over, boom, the second that earthquake hit a country even poorer and more miserable and photogenic than it,” writes Globe […]

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25 Jan

Long-time Gazette reporter dies at 72

On January 21, James Ferrabee, a long-time Canadian journalist, died in hospital in Sherbrooke, The Gazette reports. He was 72. Ferrabee began his journalism career at The Gazette in Montreal […]

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25 Jan

Click and the hyperlinks are gone

Once in a while software designers do something little that makes life a lot easier.  The folks at Microsoft have done that by adding a shortcut command to remove hyperlinks […]

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22 Jan

Ingram reflects on leaving Globe for GigaOM

The Globe and Mail’s first communities editor, Mathew Ingram, left the Globe in early January to join tech blogging network GigaOM. In a post to his blog, he explains that […]

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