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11 Feb

Rethinking balance in post-genocide Rwanda

Last spring, after a five-week visit to Rwanda, veteran television journalist Claude Adams produced two news pieces for the CBC. Together, the stories challenged the prevailing view about healing and […]

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11 Feb

L’information régionale à la dérive?

Radio-Canada.ca | Comment se porte l’information régionale à l’ère de la concentration des médias et des nouvelles technologies? Qu’arrive-t-il de la diversité des points de vue et de l’accès à […]

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11 Feb

Halifax Daily News closed

The Halifax Daily News has closed, and its owner, Transcontinental Media, will replace it with a free daily newspaper, the Canadian Press reports. Transcontinental said that all but a few […]

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11 Feb

ProPublica appoints journalism advisory board

A board comprised of some high-ranking editors and other journalism bigwigs has been appointed to guide what will become the largest news staff in American journalism devoted solely to investigative reporting. ProPublica, […]

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11 Feb

Halifax Daily News shut down

The Halifax Daily News was shut down February 11, 2008, by owner Transcontinental Media in a move that took the city — and its own employees — by complete surprise. Transcontinental will […]

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11 Feb

Passionate about accuracy

“Everybody knows (accuracy is) important. But there is that gap between the idea we have and what we actually do on a daily basis, and that’s where the idea of passion and […]

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11 Feb

Passionné d’environnement, journaliste et réfugi

Brigitte Trahan, Le Nouvelliste (Trois-Rivières) | “J’étais allé en voyage au Bénin et j’ai écrit un article sur l’évolution des mentalités en matière de démocratie au sein de l’armée. À […]

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11 Feb

Newspaper stock prices dive

Almost all newspaper stock prices dropped in 2007, according to a report of the World Association of Newspapers; eighty per cent of those stocks dropped by more than 30 per […]

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11 Feb

British journalism resource site holdthefrontpage

According to its “About” page, holdthefrontpage.co.uk is a website for journalists and journalism students everywhere and offers free and unrestricted access to everyone. The site publishes news stories about what […]

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10 Feb

Osgoode researchers disturbed by “anti-Muslim” pattern in Maclean’s articles

<p>When a group of Osgoode Hall researchers and students reviewed 20 Maclean's articles, they found what they felt was a disturbing and sustained pattern of Islamaphobia. With titles such as 'Wake up ostriches: Islam's in an expansionary phase' and 'Wake up Europe: It may already be too late,' the articles "promoted hatred and fear of Muslims," concluded the study's five authors.</p>

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