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25 Jun

[UPDATED] Masthead releases Top 50 Mags report

[NOTE: This post has been updated] Chatelaine, the Rogers-owned women’s service magazine, remains in the number one position on Masthead Online‘s annual ranking of Canada’s top 50 magazines. According to […]

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25 Jun

New project tracks reports released by government

An online project for journalists that tracks and links to government and NGO reports in Canada, which launched in April, now has more than 170 entries. Reports Canada, a blog […]

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25 Jun

Two Sun Media community weeklies in Alberta suffer cutbacks

“Sun Media’s Alberta weeklies continue to experience the wrath of Quebecor cutbacks, the latest being the Pincher Creek Echo and the Crowsnest Pass Promoter.”

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25 Jun

New study finds online news audiences growing during recession

With all the hardship facing newspapers, some good news comes from the Center for the Digital Future.  It found more people are reading news online and spending more time doing […]

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25 Jun

CBC maps media ownership in Canada

The CBC’s John Bowman has created an interactive, visual representation of media ownership across the country. The result is an example of new digital storytelling techniques where there is less […]

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25 Jun

Twitter tools continue to be used in innovative ways

“Vancouver’s two daily metropolitan newspapers have embraced BubbleTweet. The Vancouver Sun and The Province, both owned by Canwest, are embedding the bubble-shaped pop-ups on their Twitter pages to tell readers […]

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24 Jun

Un tsunami frappe la profession

Jean-Daniel Bourdon, journaliste indépendant – 20 juin 2009 La ministre Christine St-Pierre est inquiète de la décision de La Presse qui consiste à cesser de publier son journal les dimanches […]

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24 Jun

Au Brésil, les positions politiques minent le lectorat

Les prises de positions éditoriales des journaux brésiliens ont un impact direct sur le lectorat. En axant leur contenu sur la politique, ils accentuent l’écart entre ce que cherchent les […]

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24 Jun

In Journal: Online stories often unedited and selling news with slogans

Selected stories from the most recent issue of the Newspaper Research Journal that may be of interest to the journalism community: Copy Editing Not Great Priority for Online Stories, by […]

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24 Jun

CBC radio doc explores news in age of social media

Documentary producer Ira Basen created a two-part series called News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media on “where the news business is going, now that […]

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