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25 Feb

Context needed

“Democracy needs dialogue more than it needs bumper stickers,” writes Stephen L. Carter, a novelist and Yale law professor, in a persuasive essay arguing for more context — more thoroughness […]

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25 Feb

Teaching j-students about Twitter

Suddenly, it seems, everyone is twittering. Or,  if they’re not, they feel they should be. Journalists who first dismissed it as a useless time waster are now seeing it as a […]

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25 Feb

CBC funding crisis

[Note: This post has been updated] “The CBC is heading toward a new fiscal year with little clarity about its funding from Ottawa, even as it suffers a projected 2008-2009 […]

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24 Feb

Autopsie d’un scoop selon Fagstein

Steve Faguy définit en quatre points, et de manière satirique, ce qu’est un scoop : – Une histoire que personne d’autre ne possède– Un sujet alimenté par des sources anonymes impliquant […]

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24 Feb

Source : garder le secret jusqu’en prison

Marc-François Bernier | Quand un journaliste promet l’anonymat à une source d’information, il s’engage à respecter sa parole jusqu’à la prison s’il le faut.  Daniel Leblanc, du quotidien Globe and […]

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24 Feb

Sports : journalistes sous influence?

La pratique du journalisme sportif, balisée par une étroite proximité avec les joueurs, permet-elle encore une distanciation nécessaire? Pas toujours, selon Steeve Lapointe, journaliste à Corus. Il soutient que les […]

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24 Feb

Layoffs at 3 TorStar papers

The Hamilton Spectator, the Guelph Mercury and The Record in Waterloo have all announced a series of staff layoffs. A total of 64 jobs are being cut in reaction to […]

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24 Feb

Fewer newspapers = more corruption

Even those of us who care about news and newspapers can become cynical about the wailing over the demise of print. Fortunate then that Paul Starr has written a passionate […]

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24 Feb

Murdoch apologizes

Under his own byline, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch apologized for an editorial cartoon run by The New York Post showing a police officer telling his colleague, who just shot […]

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24 Feb

Experts lists: a dangerous, guilty convenience

ByLarry Cornies In Canada’s increasingly lean newsrooms, it’s no secret that experts directories have become a frequently used tool — or crutch, depending on one’s point of view. Whether a […]

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