Archive
9 Jul

Des médias au plus près des villes et des quartiers

Charlotte Richard, Le Monde | Les médias “hyper locaux” s’attachent à l’information qui n’intéresse pas les médias traditionnels. Ils couvrent l’actualité d’une ville, voire d’un quartier. Leur credo : la […]

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9 Jul

Wikileaks: Saving journalism?

The title of a Wired piece revealed the ambition of Wikileaks, the document-leaking site: “Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism … and the World” Said Editor’s Weblog: […]

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9 Jul

Newspaper bankruptcies are coming, says Ibbitson

Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson predicts the demise of newspapers in the coming years, in his column “Extra, extra, read all about it – or, sadly, not.”  Ibbitson looks […]

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8 Jul

Canwest names new vp of digital media

Canwest has appointed Kenneth Maclean as vice-president of digital media for its eastern region, the Montreal Gazette reported today. Maclean left his position as vice-president of interactive media services at […]

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8 Jul

Une journaliste de CBC devient candidate du NPD

Violaine Ballivy, La Presse | Pour la troisième fois en un peu plus d’un an, Radio-Canada perd un journaliste au profit d’un parti politique. Le chef du NPD, Jack Layton, […]

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8 Jul

Words of solace

I expect  journalists have always felt like ink-stained wretches at times — and especially now, with the Internet having devoured not only tens of thousands of our jobs, our hopes […]

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8 Jul

Did naming source make him “marked man?”

Critics of a New York Times investigative story about a CIA interrogator, whom it named, say it “has made him a marked man.” Scott Shane, the reporter, and his editors […]

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8 Jul

Investigative … torture

Christopher Hitchens, a Washington-based journalist known for his support of the Iraq war and the U.S. war on terror, has subjected himself to waterboarding. The experiment was done in answer […]

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8 Jul

New design mag to launch this week

Canadian Architecture & Design Magazine is set to launch this Friday, July 11. The magazine is the current project of Northern Ontario-focused design mag, North of 89,  publisher Mike Dunphy. […]

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8 Jul

Station 940 News: le SCEP-FTQ dépose une plainte au CRTC

SCEP-FTQ – CNW Telbec | Le SCEP-FTQ) a déposé une plainte au CRTC suite au changement de programmation imposé par le propriétaire de la station montréalaise, CORUS.“Cette décision est absolument déplorable. Non seulement ça […]

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