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25 Sep

UK libel law stifles free expression

Commentary Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, one of the world’s richest men, has made an academic publisher withdraw a controversial book. But it is the UK libel system that allows the […]

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25 Sep

How Conrad Black used libel chill as a weapon

By David OliveBusiness Columnist The Toronto Star “There is only one thing for me now, absolute Humility.”– Oscar Wilde, “De Profundis,” essay written in Reading Gaol The Conrad Black story […]

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25 Sep

Journalism’s other road

Buried in the despair of a U.S. media-industry roundup — to which it devotes an extraordinarily long and justifiably depressing introduction — the Columbia Journalism Review presents some interesting ideas […]

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25 Sep

How to be a good journalism student

Instead of the usual tips for writing a great lead or landing a great interview, a British journalism professor has come up with rules for how to be journalism students. He […]

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25 Sep

The upside of Harper’s press restrictions

NewsOttawa (July 30, 2007) — One year after relations between the Parliamentary Press Gallery and the Harper government hit rock bottom, some observers see signs that restrictions on media access […]

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25 Sep

Proposed U.S. shield law moves forward

INDIANAPOLIS (Aug. 1, 2007) – The Society of Professional Journalists, the nation’s most broad-based journalism advocacy organization, commends the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s decision to vote in favor […]

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24 Sep

Online, all the time

American journalist Seymour Hersh has much to say In a Q&A interview about the Internet’s impact on journalism: “There is an enormous change taking place in this country in journalism. […]

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24 Sep

Students challenged to be journalistic innovators and entreprenuers

An American journalism professor has just received a huge grant to provide seed funding to news start-ups developed by students in his entrepreneurial journalism class at City Univeristy of New […]

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24 Sep

Klein and the National Post

“Paying an Author and Putting Her Down” is a report in the New York Times about Naomi Klein’s odd appearance in the National Post. The Post paid for the rights […]

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24 Sep

Armstrong and the rabble-rousing journalist

His editor figured him for a “rabble-rouser and liberal,” but Larry Lubenow knew a good story when he heard one. And so he quoted Louis Armstrong when the jazz legend […]

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