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20 Jun

Web archive of public policy research launched

Researchers and others should check out Policy Archive, a new searchable, indexed website that hosts public policy research papers from more than 220 think tanks and research institutes. The site […]

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20 Jun

Tim Russert, icon or poster boy

The explosion of news about deceased U.S. broadcaster Tim Russert (at one point in the week a Google news search returned some 10,000 hits) reminds me of how O.J. Simpson […]

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20 Jun

Floating feet

“Why,” asks the Globe and Mail, “are newshounds around the world so enraptured by a grim West Coast story about human flotsam?” OK, it’s a rhetorical question — every reporter […]

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20 Jun

Capturing the moment in a camera’s lens

(photo taken by Paul Daly in Qatar) By Paul Daly As the Independent’s picture editor and only full time photographer, I work hand in hand with editors and reporters to […]

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19 Jun

The American Blogopticon

Vanity Fair has published a delightfully visual yet highly functional introduction to the busy American newsy blog scene. Media-politics-celebrity blogs are situated in quadrants according to how they rank along […]

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19 Jun

Canwest names new senior vp of news

Canwest Broadcasting announced Wednesday that Troy Reeb has been appointed as senior vice-president of news and current affairs. According to a news release, Reeb will focus on the strategic direction […]

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19 Jun

NY Times launches social networking feature

The New York Times has added TimesPeople to its website’s repertoire of tools. The TimesPeople feature allows users to share articles, videos, slideshows, blog posts, as well as comment on […]

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19 Jun

Internet ad sales forge ahead, says report

According to this year’s PricewaterhouseCoopers forecast on the entertainment and media industries, the media and entertainment industry will do just fine over the next few years but the digital and […]

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18 Jun

Fraud and the family farm

By Mary Baxter, Robert Irwin & Don StonemanLast October a reader asked if Better Farming could look into Pigeon King International Inc. (PKI). Based in Waterloo, Ontario, this rapidly-growing company […]

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18 Jun

Lombudsman de Radio-Canada rejette la demande de révision du reportage sur la centrale nucléaire Gentilly II

Un téléspectateur a jugé que le reportage diffusé le 13 mai 2008 au Téléjournal Mauricie sur la centrale nucléaire Gentilly II prêtait à confusion car la journaliste avait signé « […]

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