Archive
22 Dec

Want me to pay for local news? Deliver more value

The two recent CRTC hearings about the fee-for-carriage battle between cable companies and conventional broadcasters highlighted the way local TV will (and must) change, writes Greg O’Brien. I believe in […]

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21 Dec

2009, l’année de toutes les crises

Le décompte marquant la fin de l’année 2008 n’était pas encore terminé que déjà, l’année 2009 se profilait sur fond de crises. Dans les douze mois qui ont suivi, les […]

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21 Dec

Financer la presse en Russie

Au terme du forum des médias européens qui se tenait à Moscou, le président de la Russie, Dmitri Medvedev, a promis une aide matérielle à la presse russophone insistant sur […]

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21 Dec

Moving on to (better?) things

New York Times science and environment reporter Andrew Revkin is “switching gears for the second half of my professional life.” Revkin wrote in the Times that he’s not abandoning journalism […]

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21 Dec

Journalism is not the media

“Journalism, the practice, is not “the media,”” argues Jay Rosen in a mini-essay about how the practice of journalism has become trapped in media production routines. He says, “We got […]

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21 Dec

AJAs add magazine categories for 2009 awards

Three new awards have been launched to honour Atlantic Canada-based magazines. The Atlantic Journalism Awards has added three new categories beginning in 2009. The three new awards are best magazine […]

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20 Dec

A tip of the hat

This week’s Big Issue gives a tip of the hat to outgoing J-Source editor-in-chief Ivor Shapiro, who handed over the EIC reins to Janice Neil on Dec. 10. “I won’t […]

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19 Dec

L’état de la nouvelle

Comme chaque année, depuis cinq ans, Influence communication vient de publier son bilan annuel de l’actualité. Cette revue médiatique est très prisée… des médias. Outre Chantal Hébert, dans son blogue […]

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18 Dec

Koring, Hollett, Hayes pick up Amnesty’s 2009 Media Awards

Three Canadian journalists have been named winners of Amnesty International Canada’s fifteenth annual Media Awards. Paul Koring, Jennifer Hollett and David Hayes were honoured for “outstanding reporting about human rights […]

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17 Dec

Yappy colleagues, translator loses it on air

The title of this youtube  video says it all: “CBC Translator Loses It.”

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