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22 Apr

Newspaper websites need to improve their readability

“Most newspaper websites are doing a bad design job in making their stories readable.”

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22 Apr

How online sites faired in Pulitzer Prizes

“The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes included online-only news organizations “primarily dedicated to original news reporting and coverage of  ongoing stories” for the first time — and the Awards got 65 entries from […]

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22 Apr

“Blended reporting” for journalism online

“[T]he journalistic future I think we’re about to embark upon: that of free-agent professionals who are medium agnostic and can produce text, audio and video for just about any kind […]

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22 Apr

We dont own the news anymore

“This is the first of two reports from the International Symposium on Online Journalism. To get a more extensive look what was said at this weekend’s symposium, go to the […]

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22 Apr

It’s Not the News. It’s the Packaging

“Amid the news industry’s crisis and the attendant fingerpointing over the causes, there is seemingly endless discussion these days of the pros and cons of things like micropayments, pay walls, […]

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21 Apr

“Not spin doctors,” says RCMP spokesman

Former RCMP spokesman Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre told a public inquiry he did “absolutely not” intentionally give the media inaccurate information following the Oct. 2007 death of Robert Dziekanski. The Polish […]

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21 Apr

Fund created to support national mag awards

The National Magazine Awards Foundation (NMAF) found itself struggling a bit with finances this year, as sponsorship was down during these tough economic times. To help out, a group of […]

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21 Apr

rabble.ca on newspaper woes

Asked a forum organized by rabble.ca, “What’s wrong with our newspapers?” Answers from Peter C. Newman, Linda McQuaig and Wayne MacPhail included, respectively, “boring,” “corporate ownership,” and “anti-union intentions.” “The […]

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21 Apr

More bloggers than bartenders

In the United States, reports the Wall Street Journal, more people now blog for a living than program computers, fight fires or tend bar; there are now nearly as many […]

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21 Apr

NYT massive loss

The New York Times Company reported a first-quarter loss of $74.5 million on Tuesday, compared with a loss of $335,000 in the period a year ago, as it joined the […]

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