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12 Mar

Why offering video is important to community newspapers

Great article on video for newspapers…“If you work in New Media, the answer should be obvious. Nevertheless, there are still many newspapers that don’t understand why. Some merely offer online […]

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12 Mar

Metroland consolidates production at former Brighton Independent

Two production staff lost their jobs recently as Metroland moves to consolidate newsroom production at its Oshawa offices. Sales staff and reporters will remain in Brighton. This is part of […]

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12 Mar

Convergent newsroom for Guardian

The Guardian joined two newspapers and one website into a single newsroom to meet the demands of current conditions…

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12 Mar

The Times & CUNY (and others) go hyperlocal

CUNY joins with the New York Times to provide coverage of local neighbourhoods…

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12 Mar

‘New York Times’ to Launch Local Citizen Journalism Sites

The New York Times is joining a growing list of mainstream news organizations trying citizen journalism as a means of covering hyper-local news…

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12 Mar

Science “sexy” south of the border: Globe

<p>A <span style="font-style: italic;">Globe and Mail</span> <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090311.wescience12/BNStory/specialComment/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">editorial </a>Thursday notes the paradigm shift in U.S. national policy under Obama to one which ideologically and financially supports science and open inquiry.

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12 Mar

Columbia j-school’s existential crisis

Columbia University’s School of Journalism appears to be facing the same internal conflict about how, or even whether, to change its curricula to teach new media skills as so many […]

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11 Mar

Le journalisme citoyen : quand la démocratie réagit

Vincent Destouches, étudiant en journalisme, Université Concordia | Le journaliste est un « agent » du public, du moins originellement. Il est censé représenter le peuple, aller chercher et découvrir […]

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11 Mar

Les journaux doivent payer pour leurs déchets

Lise Millette, ProjetJ | Les municipalités se penchent sur les moyens de réduire leurs dépenses et de s’attaquer au défi de la collecte sélective. La Fédération des municipalités du Québec […]

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11 Mar

Aspers and CanWest get reprieve

Canwest Global Communications Corp. won a reprieve on some of its debt problems until April 7. The company will use the time “to negotiate borrowing terms on its debt with […]

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