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31 Mar

Getting behind political spin

By Jaime Watt & Dan Robertson Too often in politics, the relationship between those in public life and the journalists who cover them is one which is confrontational and tempestuous.  […]

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31 Mar

Sauver le journalisme?

Lise Millette, ProjetJ – 31 mars 2009 | Sur les ondes de CIBL à Montréal, l’émission Citoyen Numérique a tenu une table ronde sur les enjeux et défis du journalisme […]

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30 Mar

A case against non-profit community newspapers

“Nonprofit status would muffle or silence newspapers’ editorial voice and add in layers of regulatory control that we cannot begin to predict, going in.”

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30 Mar

Record profit for European newspaper Bild

“As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in […]

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30 Mar

Alt-obscenity

Here’s a lede you’ll see only in alt-media: “Shane McConkey was one crazy motherfucker.”Will that kind of a lead consign the outlet that runs it (in this case, by the […]

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30 Mar

Lose the jargon, academics told

“Academic jargon that obscures meaning must be replaced by crisp, understandable conclusions,” said an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The essay, written by CMAJ section editor Noni MacDonald […]

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30 Mar

Online journalists fear Internet eroding professional values

Journalists who work online are worried the Internet is undermining journalism’s professional values, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism. A slight majority of respondents believed journalism is on the “wrong track,” […]

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30 Mar

Money, power and the freelance journalist

What are the major contract/copyright issues facing editors and freelance writers in Canada these days? This is the question that set Michael OReilly and Corinna vanGerwen off on an email […]

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30 Mar

Former newspaper publisher dies

Bob Erlam, former publisher and longtime co-owner of the Whitehorse Star, died in Victoria at age 92, the Canadian Press reports. Erlam and his wife owned the Star for 35 […]

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30 Mar

CBC cuts

You know it’s bad when your ‘business plan’ is also known as ‘CBC bloodbath.’ J-Source provides the details and links to information on English and French program cuts. If you […]

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