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18 Oct

New York Times savaged on stock market

From a Bloomberg story today: Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest shareholder in New York Times Co., sold its entire 7.3 percent stake today, according to a person briefed on the transaction, […]

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18 Oct

Magazine ads/malaise

Anyone wondering why Time magazine is so skinny these days? Marvelling at the fat People on the newstands? Take a look at this graph compiled by the U.S. Project for […]

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18 Oct

Murdoch’s plans for WSJ: it would be nice to “kill” the New York Times

Later this year Rupert Murdoch will actually get his hands on his new prize, the Wall Street Journal. Jonathan Richards has stories in today’s Times and Guardian based on a […]

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17 Oct

Journalism students are lazy

Mark Bonokoski, a columnist with the Toronto Sun, discusses how nothing beats the personal touch, how journalism students are increasingly becoming lazy, and how to get into the business.

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17 Oct

CUP guide to self-editing

Self-editing can be the most annoying and pointless step in the writing process if it is not done correctly. If you do it right, though, your editors will love you […]

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17 Oct

Award honours Gzowski

The Association of Electronic Journalists has created an award named after Peter Gzowski, the late Maclean’s editor and long-time CBC radio host of Morningside. The RTNDA Peter Gzowski Award – […]

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17 Oct

Carl Wilson on writing a good lede

Journalism, H.L. Mencken once said, is literature in a hurry. As an instant novelist, then, every sentence you write should grab the reader’s interest, impart vital information, clarify obscure angles […]

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17 Oct

News writing: the basics

A news story doesn’t begin with the first interview or the opening paragraph. It starts with background research. The Canadian University Press breaks down newswriting for beginner journalists in this […]

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17 Oct

Getting to know the student paper

So you’ve walked into your student newspaper office. You’ve spoken with an editor or two and maybe even been assigned a story. Now what? The Canadian University Press provides the […]

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17 Oct

Headlines

A selection of headlines above the first online, breaking-news stories about today’s Statistics Canada crime report. It’s a hot political topic in the context of yesterday’s Conservative government throne speech […]

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