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20 Apr

National Press Club gets donation for scholarships

The National Press Club of Canada Foundation scholarships program has been given new life thanks to a recent donation. The Makhzoumi Foundation of Lebanon contributed $30,000 to the NPCCF programs, […]

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20 Apr

National forum launched on covering violence and trauma

By Cliff Lonsdale Climate change is real, but its increments can be small – and may become smaller still in tough economic times.   The climate in question is the […]

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20 Apr

Freelancers’ Long March

Freelancers have won the right to be heard before the Quebec Superior Court in their ongoing battle for compensation for republishing articles online. It’s been 12 years since the Electronic […]

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19 Apr

Summary of the state of journalism online in India

“ The narrative in the news business in India couldn’t be more different. Only 60% of the Indian population is literate, about half of the literate population reads newspapers, and […]

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19 Apr

Rosen on the future of journalism

A solid synopsis of a speech given by New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen on the future of journalism. “In his talk he focused on the “crisis of the […]

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19 Apr

More on Steve Brill’s journalism adventure

Here are a few more articles about the Journalism Online venture. Steve Brill to save journalism The UK Guardian

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19 Apr

Using Hansard online as a journalism tool

Great little “how-to” article on using public voting records in an effective manner.

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19 Apr

Hyperlocal coverage is key to journalism’s future

“My dream is to have a citizen journalism group like this in every community,” he told me recently. “And a greater dream is that they would be linked. The web […]

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19 Apr

Boston Globe as journalism guinea pig

“In an article on the Boston Phoenix’s Web site last week, Adam Reilly argued that The New York Times Company should retain its money-hemorrhaging property, the Boston Globe, and use […]

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19 Apr

A different perspective on the future of news

This is a different analysis of journalism from a digital marketing expert. “A lot of the discussion around the future of journalism has to do with business models and money. […]

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