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10 Feb

Plunging into radio

ByKim Pittaway My sister Tina and I had been talking about possibly collaborating on a radio documentary for some time. Radio is Tina’s turf. For much of the last decade, […]

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10 Feb

Blogroll

CanadianCanadian MagazinesKirk LaPointe’s themediamanager.comInside the CBCNewspaperBlog.caRRJ Editorial BlogNotes from a TeacherDream Job TKRegret the ErrorThe Idea FactoryPWAC GuelphCanadian Media CriticBill Doskoch: Media, BPS, Film, MinutiaeThe Journalism DoctorNewslab.caReportr.netFrom the editor’s deskMagazines […]

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10 Feb

New Scotiabank/CJFE fellowship for Latin journalists

The Scotiabank/CJFE Journalism Fellowship at Massey College is a one-semester fellowship, hosted by Massey College in the University of Toronto, for a mid-career Latin American journalist. The 2009 fellowship will provide […]

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10 Feb

Holding back an explosive story

ByBill Gillespie An FBI agent had unexpectedly dropped a potentially explosive story into the laps of the Canadian reporters covering a court appearance by Omar Khadr in Guantanamo. The immediate […]

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10 Feb

Interns doing the work of laid off staffers?

[NOTE: This post has been updated] The union representing laid-off journalists at Torstar-owned Metro has filed five grievances related to interns that were brought in just days before four unionized […]

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10 Feb

Lost in translation: science journalists and society

<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">By</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wendy Smith and David Secko</span><br /><br />It's not easy reporting on science these days. Or so the story goes.<br /><br />Science is a complex, rapidly evolving target. This combined with cutbacks and deadlines can lead to the oversimplification of newsworthy science, shoddy science slipping into newspapers, the creation of conflicts that don’t exist or the maintenance of those long forgotten by scientists, among other issues. So the story goes.<br />

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10 Feb

Free market blues spur calls for new tune

Shrinking newsroom budgets have left former T-Star publisher John Honderich asking: Whither serious print journalism? He finds some interesting possibilities in the U.S., where non-profit foundations and cooperative ownership models […]

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9 Feb

Divulguer sa source pour prouver sa crédibilit

Lise Millette, ProjetJ | L’histoire de la Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Québec et la possibilité que le gouvernement provincial ait tenté de s’immiscer dans le processus de […]

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9 Feb

Comment être rentable à la pige?

Raphaëlle Derome | Peut-on bien gagner sa vie avec des piges à 75$ le feuillet? Quels sont les avantages et lesdésavantages de se spécialiser? Que faire avec les clientsnon-rentables: négocier […]

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9 Feb

Un journaliste assassiné à Madagascar

Un journaliste de 25 ans de RTA (Radio et Télévision Analamanga) à Antananarivo a été tué le 7 février 2009 lors d’une manifestation. Ando Ratovonirina a reçu une balle alors […]

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