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23 Aug

Canadian reported kidnapped in Somalia

Two journalists, a Canadian woman and an Australian man, have reportedly been abducted in Somalia, the CBC says in a dispatch from Reuters. They are believed to have been confronted […]

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21 Aug

Last call for int’l TV freelancer award submissions

The Rory Peck Awards is an international competition that showcases the work of freelance cameramen and camerawomen in TV newsgathering and current affairs worldwide. There are three awards up for […]

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21 Aug

Why Blatchford won’t blog

Admits Christie Blatchford in a Globe and Mail column titled, I’m not blogging this, mark my words: “I have written some astonishingly banal columns in my life, and some very […]

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21 Aug

Vive la radio olympique!

Blogue de Pierre Cayouette, L’Actualité | Je ne ris jamais quand je vois des journalistes de la presse écrite s’amuser à relever les ratés de la couverture télévisée des Jeux […]

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21 Aug

Des journalistes en réseau pour contrer Digg et Google

Narvic, Novövision | Je surveille attentivement les développements du projet Publish2, de Scott Karp, qui ouvre des perspectives totalement nouvelles pour le journalisme en ligne : « le journalisme de […]

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20 Aug

News “grazers” becoming the norm

A majority of today’s news consumers (51%) are news “grazers” who “check in on news” whenever they want or stumble on news while online, rather than waiting for news to […]

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20 Aug

The wonderful world of semicolons

In this article, the Financial Times delves into the exciting world of punctuation. More specifically, it is a love letter to everybody’s favourite form: the semicolon. Read on for an […]

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20 Aug

Competition to cover eco conference December 2008

<p>The World Federation of Science Journalists is hosting a competition to send five journalists to the <a href="http://www.consortium-immobilier.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International EcoHealth Forum</a> taking place in Mexico in December 2008. Applications must be received before September 2, 2008, and winners will be announced October 6, 2008. Full details can be found on the WFSJ's <a href="http://www.wfsj.org/resources/page.php?id=69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awards page</a>.</p>

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20 Aug

Pragmatiques, les journalistes québécois…

Colette Brin, ProjetJ | La conception qu’ont les journalistes de la qualité de l’information tend à cautionner les pratiques actuelles, tout en déplorant certaines dérives : information-spectacle, approximations, cadence accélérée. […]

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20 Aug

Allvoices dévoile une initiative dexcellence mondiale de média citoyen

San Francisco, BusinessWire | Allvoices, une nouvelle société de médias, a lancé aujourd’hui l’opération Excellence in Citizen Media (le prix d’excellence de média citoyen), une initiative en ligne pour récompenser […]

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