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20 Apr

U.S. print journo jobs slashed at a record rate

U.S. newspapers hacked 5,900 jobs from their newsrooms last year, the largest round of print journalism job reductions since the American Society of News Editors started counting in 1978. The cuts, representing 11.3 per cent of the workforce, left about 46,700 journalists […]

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20 Apr

Local TV news: More hours, produced by fewer people for less pay

Local television stations provided more hours of weekday news last year despite cutting staff and reducing salaries, according to a study released at the annual Radio-Television News Directors Association convention. Member stations reduced staff […]

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20 Apr

Harper’s mysterious Jamaican news conference

“Why is PM Harper letting a pro-Israel think tank organize a press conference for him?” Twitters Canadianmags. The tweet links to David Akin’s blog post about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s […]

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20 Apr

Pulitzer peacockery

Slate‘s Jack Shafer thinks America’s Pulitzer Prizes — announced today — are mere “industry peacockery.” Shafer says Joseph Pulitzer was “one of the inventors of yellow journalism,” and today’s prizes […]

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20 Apr

Pulitzer prizes announced

The winners of the Pulitzer prizes were announced today. The New York Times has the most wins with five awards, while St. Petersburg Times comes in second with two. The Pulitzer site’s awards […]

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20 Apr

Author and longtime magazine editor dies

Former Saturday Night senior editor and author Barbara Moon died in hospital on April 15. Moon was a longtime editor and writer in Canada’s magazine community as well an author […]

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20 Apr

Access to Information blind to geography: be persistent

QUESTION: As it turns out I am following up on a story that I wrote after the last federal election. Now that expenses from the election have been filed with […]

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20 Apr

News blackouts quite common

ByMelissa Wilson “News organizations aren’t in the business of keeping secrets,” insists David Aeikens, president of the Society of Professional Journalists and full-time reporter for Minnesota’s St. Cloud Times, on […]

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20 Apr

J-profs and j-students rate each other

A very public disagreement between two Carleton journalism professors about journalism students played itself out on the opinion pages of the Ottawa Citizen this past week. It all began with […]

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20 Apr

“Today the goals are different”: the media’s lost generation?

“The media business has always been a deeply competitive bastion of ambition; yet today’s journalists—including both those sidelined by layoffs and those still clinging desperately their workplace desks—have been left […]

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