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22 Sep

Can reporting prosper in a parasitic golden age?

Information still costs money, but there are ways to make journalism pay its way, Ira Basen and Rem Rieder told a Toronto audience. Melissa Wilson reports. The conversation about journalism […]

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22 Sep

Always question sources’ motives

QUESTION: In All the President’s Men, I heard about the two-source rule on information that comes from an anonymous source. But I don’t hear about it much anymore and have […]

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21 Sep

You’ve been outsourced

Some Saskatchewan media jobs are moving east – way east. Canwest’s Regina Leader-Post plans to outsource ad department work to India and the Philippines, according to reports by CBC Saskatchewan […]

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21 Sep

Longtime political columnist dies at 89

Douglas Fisher, a highly respected political columnist, died in Ottawa at age 89, CBC News reports. Fisher, who began his career in the 60s as a freelance political columnist for […]

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21 Sep

Transcon sells two titles to Quarto Communications

Toronto-based Quarto Communications has purchased two Transcontinental Media magazine titles, Canadian Home Workshop and Outdoor Canada, Masthead Online reports. Quarto is publisher of Cottage Life and Explore. Financial details of […]

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20 Sep

Demand the experience you want from journalism school

Journalism schools do their best to give students a well-rounded education and to prepare them for the real world, but those who set the curricula are generally neither 21 nor […]

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20 Sep

Another model for newspaper survival

David Olive’s new model for newspapers: “shrink the newsprint product to a 32-page broadsheet or tabloid featuring only staff-written feature-length content and the best material available from other publications worldwide.” […]

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20 Sep

War reporting: shades of gray

New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt examined the case of Times’ reporter Stephen Farrell’s kidnapping in Afghanistan — and his rescue by British soldiers which led to the deaths […]

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20 Sep

Une nouvelle économie des médias. Entrevue avec Michel Venne – Institut du Nouveau Monde – 01

Revoir l’économie des médias pour assurer l’avenir du journalisme, voilà une des propositions de Michel Venne, ancien journaliste et directeur général de l’Institut du Nouveau Monde. Michel Venne – 01

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19 Sep

Couvrir la science sans s’y perdre

L’information en cas de crise, bien faire et comment le faire? Une réflexion sur la couverture de la science. La directrice de la rédaction du magazine de vulgarisation scientifique français […]

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