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11 Nov

Girls and math

<p>When it comes to gender gaps in math, culture matters. That's what an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/math-gender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found when digging</a> deeper into his own observations made while volunteer coaching his daughter and her friends on an all-girls math squad for their school. 

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10 Nov

MacIntyre wins the Giller

Congratulations to Linden MacIntyre, winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop’s Man (Random House Canada). As an investigative journalist MacIntyre co-hosts of The Fifth Estate […]

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10 Nov

Les journalistes manquent-ils de crédibilité?

Courtoisie de Paulémique

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10 Nov

Mansbridge named chancellor of Mount Allison University

Peter Mansbridge, anchor of CBC’s The National, will become the chancellor of Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B, CBC News announced. Mansbridge will officially take on the role in May […]

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10 Nov

Outsourcing journalists: The Current examines the issue

The Nov. 10 edition of CBC’s The Current included a segment on outsourcing journalists. Host Anna Maria Tremonti interviewed union chair at the Toronto Star and first vice-president of CEP […]

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10 Nov

Check your stats folks

Eighty per cent of Canadians live in cities. This is a claim made routinely in the media, but it really isn’t true and the mistake lies in lazy reading of […]

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10 Nov

Canwests do what the sergeant says training for war reporting

Most news organizations send reporters for special hostile environment training to prepare for Afghanistan, but in his article “College for Killing Fields,” King’s Journalism Review reporter Geoff Davies learned that […]

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10 Nov

CTV News prez added to upcoming panel

CTV News President Robert Hurst will join the panel at the upcoming Canadian Journalism Foundation Forum “News Blackouts Save Lives” taking place on November 17 in Toronto. He joins Robert […]

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10 Nov

My students dont have TVs

CBC News wants to attract younger viewers with its recent relaunch, but as Carleton broadcast journalist instructor Marilyn Mercer found out, many of her students don’t have TVs or cable […]

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10 Nov

Twitter 101

Journalism is changing, and one journalism school is right there updating its coursework to keep up. Griffith University in Australia has recently made Twitter education a requirement for its journalism […]

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