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29 Apr

Halt media slaughter if you want aid – INSI

Developing nations’ records on protecting journalists should be factors when democratic governments consider aid programs, according to the International News Safety Institute. In a speech on Capitol Hill in Washington […]

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28 Apr

Swine flu Catch 22

The New York Times looks at the conundrum of whether coverage exacerbates a crisis. An excerpt: Without the news media the public would be dangerously unaware of the swine flu […]

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28 Apr

Alternative journalism and investigative reporting

Chris Atton of Edinburgh Napier University raises some provocative questions in the latest issue of Journalism with his paper entitled “Why alternative journalism matters.” While considerable attention has been paid […]

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28 Apr

Canwest’s Leonard Asper lays blame

“Neither the bad economy nor debt taken on by broadcasters are to blame for profit declines at Canada’s major television networks,” said CEO Leonard Asper of Canwest Global Communications Corp., […]

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28 Apr

What journalists think about swine flu coverage

As swine flu cases spread across Canada, J-Source Tools for Reporters editor Larry Cornies is asking journalists and health experts for their assessment of the coverage given this story to […]

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28 Apr

Canada “Third World” media nation?

Elizabeth May’s new book “lets loose” on the concentration of media power, writes Lawrence Martin in a Globe and Mail column. Excerpts: If Canadians heard about a country where a […]

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28 Apr

Social media on swine flu

Poynter looks at how Wikipedia, Twitter and others are handling the story, and provides links to two additional online resources at Mashable.com and CNET.

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28 Apr

Feeling the squeeze?

Local television stations provided more hours of weekday news last year despite cutting staff and reducing salaries, according to this report. Print newsrooms are also expecting more from fewer people: U.S. newspapers hacked 5,900 jobs from […]

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28 Apr

How’re we doing so far? A post-SARS report card

ByCandace Gibson The swine flu outbreak is the first real test both of the media and of many of the pandemic plans put into place by hospitals, public health agencies […]

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28 Apr

A fierce outbreak of swine flu coverage

In this Washington Post piece, Howard Kurtz recaps big media’s coverage of the swine flu so far and weighs the pros and cons of the hype.

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