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11 Jul

The future of hyperlocal news sites

Local news sites are a risky venture, as evidenced by the recent rise and fall of Backfence.com, but are they doomed to failure? Paul Farhi at the American Journal Review uses Backfence […]

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10 Jul

Pas de journaliste de Télé-Québec en Gaspésie

Claude Roy, Le Soleil(À Michèle Fortin, Télé-Québec) — La Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec, section Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine-Matane, réclame que Télé-Québec investisse de façon soutenue dans la production de reportages et […]

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9 Jul

Murdoch and the WSJ

Ken Auletta takes an in-depth look at the takeover attempt of the WSJ by Rupert Murdoch — which seems to be proceeding like a juggernaut — and how Murdoch keeps […]

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9 Jul

When the fourth estate fumbles

by Andrew Mitrovica “Hear No Evil, Write No Lies” might be the most provocative piece I have written. Why? While Canada is a big country, the nation’s media landscape is […]

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9 Jul

Iran cracks down on critical media

German news site Spiegel.com reports on actions taken by the Iranian government to combat its fear of a creeping media coup. Ham Mihan, a pro-reform newspaper, and the ILNA online news agency were both […]

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9 Jul

Inuit kids go cuckoo for Kaakuluk

Children were clamouring for copies of Kaakuluk — a glossy magazine published in both English and Inuktitut — when a small test run was released in June. Kaakuluk and its sister publication Pivuut […]

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9 Jul

An inside look at HuffPost

Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post examines the “blog that made it big”: “When Arianna Huffington launched her group blog in 2005, skeptics dismissed it as a vanity outlet for […]

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9 Jul

Osprey board OKs Quebecor bid

After Quebecor made a last-minute increase in its offer for Osprey shares, the Osprey board of trustees approved the bid, CanWest News Service reports. The new offer came after a […]

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9 Jul

Lancement du livre “50 ans de journalisme en Afrique”

Jeuneafrique.com Un ouvrage intitulé “50 ans de journalisme en Afrique: les médias africains depuis l’indépendance du Ghana” a été officiellement lancé dimanche soir à Accra, au Ghana, par le Forum […]

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9 Jul

Du message au massage

Le Blogmédias.com Avec “La crise de la représentation”, Daniel Bougnoux ne signe pas un énième traité sur la communication, mais un essai lumineux sur la presse et la crise qu’elle […]

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