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12 Oct

White House vs Fox News

Is the U.S. White House “attacking the messenger” — or refusing to pretend that the Fox News Channel news is performing journalism, when it’s really part of the partisan opposition? […]

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11 Oct

Timothy Garton Ash argues for more free speech

The Munk Centre held a special lecture on Thursday October 8 featuring British scholar and author Timothy Garton Ash.  Ash’s lecture, entitled “Why Diverse Societies Need More Free Speech, Not […]

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11 Oct

Standing up to corporate bullies

One of the most potent threats to investigative journalism comes from the legal departments of big corporations, writes Cecil Rosner. Here’s a great example and the lessons for journalists. The […]

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11 Oct

Canwest’s future

Canwest’s application for creditor protection ends old rumours and starts new ones. Is this the beginning of a much anticipated conglomerate break-up, or will the chain simply change hands? In […]

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9 Oct

A few great tips to survive the interview season

It’s interview season. This is the time of year that students are (quite often) thrown to the wolves and made to stick their noses in someone else’s business. But the […]

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9 Oct

Czech hyperloal news project gains international attention

A Czech entrepreneur is developing a chain of Starbuck-like news cafes where news is being distributed and journalists are interacting with readers. The storefronts are quickly becoming a centre of […]

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9 Oct

Spec and Record to outsource ad designer jobs to India and Philippines

Metroland, a division of Torstar, has informed employees of a plan to outsource about twenty ad designer jobs at The Hamilton Spectator and the Waterloo Region Record, the employees union […]

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8 Oct

When local newspapers die, it hurts

Great column on the loss of local newspapers and the ways in which this damages communities and society. “If you think your local newspaper is bad, I’m here to tell […]

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8 Oct

Social media dominates redesigns

The Toronto Star and CBC radio 3 recently launched new websites heavily influenced by social media and customized interactivity. The new Toronto Star site provides four different views of the […]

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8 Oct

Carleton’s Waddell on the Canwest restructuring

Chris Waddell, director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism, took questions about the Canwest restructuring and what it means for the Canadian media landscape during a live online discussion today […]

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