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11 Jan

Bad news for online user-pay advocates

An ITZ/Belden Interactive study of reader sign-up rates at 26 U.S. dailies that put their online versions behind a paywall found the average number of online subscribers amounted to just […]

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11 Jan

British journalist killed in Afghanistan

Rupert Hamer, a defence correspondent with the U.K.’s Sunday Mirror was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday while with a U.S. marine patrol, CBC News reports. A U.S. marine was also […]

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11 Jan

New media mostly reproduces old media’s news: Pew

Although the Internet has spawned a vast increase in news sources, almost all news is still gathered by traditional media, suggests a study by the Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in […]

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10 Jan

Guerre de tranchées sur la rue Frontenac

Par Marc-André Champagne et Ariane Godbout Université Laval Le lock-out de 253 employés du Journal de Montréal perdure depuis le 24 janvier 2009. Le Journal continue depuis d’être publié grâce […]

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10 Jan

Un ancien envoyé se souvient

Une première journaliste canadienne est tombée en Afghanistan, peu avant la nouvelle année. Sa dépouille est revenue au Canada le dimanche 4 janvier 2010, avec ceux de quatre militaires canadiens. […]

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9 Jan

The new “free” in freelance

A Los Angeles Times column, “Freelance writing’s unfortunate new model,” warns that while everyone has been riveted on the loss of staff jobs, freelancing has been taking a quiet nosedive, […]

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8 Jan

Le Devoir turns 100

Montreal’s Le Devoir reached the century mark today. CBC reported that the French-language daily was founded in 1910 under the promise, paraphrased, to “support honest people and denounce the villains.” […]

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8 Jan

[UPDATED] Canwest papers for sale

Finally, Canada’s largest newspaper chain is officially for sale. Senior lenders to struggling Canwest Global Communications Corp, made up of a consortium of Canadian banks, made a bid. It follows […]

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7 Jan

Congrès FPJQ 2009 : Sortie de crise, le vidéo (1)

*Vidéastes Leslie Doumrec et Émilie Fondaneche.

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7 Jan

Nominations open for AMPA Editor of the Year Award

The Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA) has announced that nominations are open for its Editor of the Year Award. The contest is open to all Alberta magazine editors and the […]

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