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18 Nov

Canadian reporters in Indian news

Globe and Mail reporter John Ibbitson’s report from India — and a news conference question about Canada selling nuclear technology to India — earned a stinging and highly-opinionated rebuke by […]

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18 Nov

Consumers willing, not, to pay for online news

With ad revenues slumping and web readership growing, news industry leaders are again mulling over making people pay to read online news. Two consulting companies recently released results of their own studies into consumer […]

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18 Nov

Kindle reader now available in Canada, newspaper sign on

Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader is now available in Canada and the National Post and The Globe and Mail are the first Canadian newspapers that are available for purchase through the […]

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18 Nov

Are journalists conferencing too much about journalism?

During these tough times in the news industry, are conferences, panel discussions and lectures the best use of media resources? In a column for The New Haven Advocate, Craig Fehrman […]

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17 Nov

Coverage of the FPJQ conference in Sherbrooke

The Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) held its annual conference on the Nov. 14  weekend in Sherbrooke, Que. J-Source’s French-language sister site, ProjetJ, covered the event and tweeted […]

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17 Nov

Un Prix de la noirceur pour les entreprises privées sil vous plaît

Dominique Lemoine, collaboration spéciale Les entreprises privées cotées en bourse devraient être admissibles au Prix de la noirceur décerné depuis cette année par la Fédération professionnelle de journalistes du Québec […]

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17 Nov

Bringing the world home

The Globe and Mail‘s recent decision to quietly close its Moscow bureau is a reminder of the important role many Canadian journalists play in bringing news from the rest of […]

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17 Nov

Looking back: photographing the Iran hostage crisis

During six months in Iran covering the 1979 hostage crisis, photojournalist Peter Bregg was blindfolded and kidnapped, had his office ransacked, lost photos, had equipment confiscated and continued to transmit […]

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17 Nov

Les médias québécois atteints de consanguinité intellectuelle?

“Au Québec ce n’est pas le jour de la marmotte, mais l’opinion de la marmotte.” La blogueuse Émilie Dubreuil déplore la tendance des médias à tendre le micro aux commentateurs […]

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17 Nov

The nuts and bolts of media relations

Author William Wray Carney has produced a “highly readable, practical and scholarly” but at times “dated” text on media relations with In the News: The Practice of Media Relations in […]

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