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13 Oct

Les médias indépendants ont le vent dans les voiles

Jooneed Khan, La Presse«Pendant la guerre froide, les médias occidentaux ont misé sur le pluralisme et la liberté d’expression pour se démarquer des médias totalitaires des pays de l’Est. C’était […]

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13 Oct

Project Censored Media Accountability Conference

Get ready to hear what a US panel considers to be the most important and under-reported stories of the past year. The conference announcement states: Project Censored holds its annual […]

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12 Oct

U.S. has detained AP Pulitzer winning photog for 18 months

American authorities have now detained Iraqi news photographer Bilal Hussein, who worked for the Associated Press and is a Pulitzer Prize winner, for 18 months. The AP’s web site today […]

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12 Oct

China’s Big Brother techniques

Reporters Without Borders and “Chinese Human Rights Defenders” says their new joint study “reveals how that country’s government censors the Internet and how the Internet Information Administrative Bureau controls the […]

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12 Oct

Media concentration: the Irvings versus an upstart

Irving family companies control most of the media in New Brunswick. Now, they’re in court trying to stop an upstart from setting up a competing newspaper. CBC has a story […]

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12 Oct

Rejigging the news for the Web

Today’s New York Times has a piece about how American broadcaster ABC is reshaping its news cast for the Internet. There are some differences, and some innovations. Excerpts:Executives at the […]

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12 Oct

British ruling backs investigative reporting

NewsThe Guardian newspaper calls it a “landmark” ruling in defence of investigative reporting. Britain’s court of appeal has used the defence of “responsible journalism” to dismiss a libel action against the […]

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12 Oct

Screams of panic: the revolution in journalism

 “The screams from newsrooms are those of panic,” Jim Lehrer, the well known American public television anchor, told a group of university students at Northwestern. Journalism is going through an […]

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12 Oct

Journalisme visuel : des pistes, des idées

Michel Dumais, Blogue MédiaBiz Le journalisme visuel commence à faire son chemin dans la profession, que ce soit en France, chez Libération ou encore ici au Québec, au journal Les […]

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11 Oct

New West advice to online community journalism

This reflection on publishing a web-based news service for communities in the Rocky Mountains covers a broad range of topics from blogging to citizen journalism.

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