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16 Mar

The new localism – who will deliver it?

Several community papers are on the ropes, including the Morinville and Jasper papers, prompting a Globe and Mail online poll: Is a local newspaper important? The question follows a recent […]

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16 Mar

“Rocky” reporters start own online journalism

“Former Rocky Mountain News staffers plan to start an online newspaper if they get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23 — what would have been the News’ 100th anniversary,” reported […]

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16 Mar

Bridging the divide: covering Sri Lanka one story at a time

ByLesley Ciarula Taylor The 60 or so people who turned out for the recent discussion of “Sri Lanka: Conflict and Coverage,” sponsored by the South Asian Journalists Association, PEN Canada […]

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16 Mar

CBC’s Maddren jumps to business world

Judy Maddren, best known as the host of World Report on CBC Radio, is leaving the public broadcaster after more than three decades at the microphone. A CBC report said […]

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16 Mar

Stop the presses: Seattle Post-Intelligencer goes online-only

The last edition of the news-“paper” Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be published Tuesday, the paper reported on its web site. Hearst Corp. announced that it would stop publishing the 146-year old […]

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16 Mar

Go long and go deep: teaching literary journalism

By Bill Reynolds One of the best ways I have found to teach the work of the writers who depend on Tom Wolfe’s four horsemen of the literary journalism apocalypse […]

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16 Mar

And more closures of community newspapers

“Four Sun Media employees lost their jobs when the Jasper Booster in Alberta closed this week after 46 years of community news, says former staffer Tim Shoults.”

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16 Mar

Further decimation of community newspapers at Sun Media

“Employees of the weekly Morinville Redwater Town & Country Examiner said their goodbyes in the final print edition of the Alberta paper this week, but the farewells were not posted […]

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16 Mar

Alberta weekly shuts down

After 46 years of publication, the Quebecor-owned Jasper Booster has ceased publication. The company cited shrinking ad revenues, rising costs and “increasing challenges in the newspaper industry” as reasons for […]

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16 Mar

State of the Media report bleakest ever

As one might expect, this year’s annual State of the Media report produced by The Center for Excellence in Journalism makes for dismal reading. The most frightening problem highlighted by […]

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