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3 May

Alan Rusbridger on open-source journalism, and other reasons to be cheerful about the future of news

“The way to think about the problems facing the news industry is to think about future of journalism and not to obsess about business models, Alan Rusbridger told an audience […]

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3 May

Will the small paper survive?

“Our colleagues at The Wall Street Journal tell us that small, community newspapers are proving to be the little engine that could of the media industry. As larger, metropolitan papers […]

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3 May

Alan Rusbridger on the future of news

“Alan Rusbridger is the editor-in-chief of The Guardian, easily one of the most prestigious newspapers in the English-speaking world, and is widely admired as a journalist’s journalist. At the same […]

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3 May

Internet versus dead trees: a discussion

“The question at hand actually was about the rise of the “commentary” class in America and how it has overshadowed the “journalist” class, and how that shapes the country. But […]

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3 May

An experiment in web design

“MSNBC.com has quietly launched an experiment that re-engineers how Web stories are consumed. Here’s Craig Saila, an interactive designer at MSNBC.com, describing the changes:”

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2 May

Kick-starting investigative journalism

Seymour Hersh was a young and little-known journalist when he approached the newly-created Fund for Investigative Journalism in 1969 for help. He wanted assistance to investigate reports of a civilian massacre […]

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2 May

Bribery investigation

In 2003, reports Frontline, Per Yngve Monsen, chief-controller at Siemens Business Services in Norway, “noticed some irregularities in the invoices Siemens sent to the Norwegian Department of Defence as part […]

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1 May

Le vidéographe de Stéphane Dion récidive

Difficile d’oublier Mick Gzowski, ce vidéographe responsable de la célèbre vidéo qui a sonné le glas de la carrière politique de Stéphane Dion. Or, ce texte de la Presse canadienne, […]

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1 May

CRTC: Al-Jazira au Canada?

La chaîne d’information en continu Al-Jazira demande au CRTC l’autorisation de diffuser son service de langue anglaise au Canada.  Le B’nai Brith s’y oppose mais Catherine Cano, membre de la […]

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1 May

National Post kills Monday publication

The National Post won’t publish on Mondays this summer, making it the first paper in Canada to drop daily circulation as a survival strategy. Publisher Gordon Fisher announced the change […]

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