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28 Aug

The uncertain legacy of Ted Kennedy

BySusan Reisler Teddy Kennedy’s death did not surprise me – we knew he would soon succumb to his merciless brain cancer. But what did surprise me – as a former […]

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28 Aug

In Journal: Trauma, democracy, foreign ownership and war

Articles published in the most recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Media Studies that may be of interest to the journalism community: “Informed Mutual Support: Options on Violence and […]

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27 Aug

People hardwired toward local and negative news

Well, waddaya know? Journalism’s traditional and much-criticized tendency to attract readers by emphasing negativity and localism appears to have measurable, scientific merit. According to a study from the University of Missouri School […]

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26 Aug

Canada speaks on Maziar Bahari detention

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has pressed his Iranian counterpart, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, to release detained journalist Maziar Bahari, said news reports. A CBC story is here; Agence […]

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26 Aug

Online tutorials for multimedia beginners

You can find tutorials and tip sheets to teach yourself a variety of multimedia tools from making Google maps to telling stories with audio and video at a vareity of different […]

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25 Aug

Wente and Dowd cell phone columns: Too close to call?

A column by The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente so closely resembles one written by The New York Times‘s Maureen Dowd that at least one blog is suggesting she stole […]

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25 Aug

Non-profit business model for journalism

A discussion about a non-profit business model for news organizations provides some insight into a different approach.

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24 Aug

Teaching the future of journalism

Professors can’t lecture about the future, says Tim McGuire, who holds a chair in the business of journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. But he […]

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23 Aug

Annie Leibovitz’s “nightmare”

Peerless photographer Annie Leibovitz may be the latest victim of America’s bad debt crisis and nationwide recession — and also, said an Agence France-Presse story, “of her own relentless artistic […]

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21 Aug

Lindhout/Brennan kidnapping anniversary

(This post updated Aug. 22) It’s nearly a year since Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan were kidnapped in Somalia. The families of the freelance journalists released a statement […]

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