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3 Mar

Twitter to the rescue

By Aaron Broverman The Globe and Mail lays off editorial staff, the Chicago Tribune files for bankruptcy, the Rocky Mountain News shuts down after nearly 150 years of serving Denver. […]

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3 Mar

Access to court files: law, reality miles apart

FeatureThere’s a growing chorus of complaint that access to key court documents — informations setting out criminal charges, exhibits tendered during trials, youth court dockets — has become increasingly restrictive […]

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2 Mar

CNW launches Greenwire

Commercial news distribution network CNW Group has launched Greenwire, a categorized feed for environmental or green news. A new Greenwire button has been added to the main CNW site, which […]

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2 Mar

Afghan journalists fight to get the news out

ByVictoria Wells When Ahmad Zia went back to Afghanistan to work as a journalist for the newspaper Kabul Weekly, he knew he wanted to help rebuild the country. And journalism […]

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2 Mar

Les ex-politiciens dans les médias québécois

Radio-Canada.ca | Le chef démissionnaire de l’ADQ, Mario Dumont, animera une émission quotidienne d’affaires publiques à TQS dès septembre. De plus en plus de politiciens font le saut en information, […]

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2 Mar

CJF Lifetime Achievement Award winner announced

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) announced that CBC Television correspondent Joe Schlesinger is the 2009 recipient of its  Lifetime Achievement Award. The award will be handed out at the CJF’s […]

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2 Mar

CTV closes two local TV stations, says cost-cutting to come at A-Channel stations

CTV Television Inc. announced it will not seek to renew broadcast licenses for two local stations in southern Ontario, CKNX-TV in Wingham and CHWI-TV in Wheatley and Windsor, when they […]

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2 Mar

Getting rid of the mumbo jumbo: ethics for mixed media

ByStephen J.A. Ward The language of journalism ethics today is like bad Irish stew – a mishmash of different and conflicting ideas, rules, and practices. Ethical mumbo-jumbo. Consider two recent […]

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1 Mar

Strategies for overcoming “Assignment Stress Injury”

By Patrice Keats“I have made a talent out of being able to bear any burden . . . I have managed it perfectly up to now and the lid just […]

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1 Mar

A post-monopoly future?

In recent years, local newspapers and broadcasters were called on to prop up empires that dabbled in everything from baseball teams to movies. At a crucial historical moment that called […]

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