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8 Jun

The art of the interview, Sawatsky-style

John Sawatsky’s seminars on interviewing are legendary. An NPR.org piece takes a look at Sawatsky’s role both at ESPN and as a lecturer. A feature for the American Journalism Review goes into further […]

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8 Jun

CTVglobemedia must sell 5 CITY-TV stations

Canada’s broadcast regulator has approved CTVglobemedia’s bid to buy CHUM Ltd., but says it must sell five TV stations in the process, ReportonBusiness.com says. The CRTC said ownership of CITY-TV stations […]

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7 Jun

CJF award winners announced

LEFT: Norman Webster holds up his Lifetime Achievement Award, while presenter Vince Borg looks on. RIGHT: Honoured guest Graydon Carter regales the audience with tales of celebrity coverage, 9/11 aftermath […]

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7 Jun

Toronto Star reporter named Atkinson fellow

Judy Steed is this year’s Atkinson fellow, winning $100,000 to fund a project entitled, “Aging: The Myths, the New Research, the Hidden Poverty, Transformative Models and Public Policy Innovation.” Steed […]

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7 Jun

“Creative destruction” and the WSJ

“Suck it up,”an editorial in the Wall Street Journal seems to tell WSJ staffers: “Those of us who extol the virtues of Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” for others can’t complain […]

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5 Jun

CRTC new focus of “media democracy” movement

The CRTC has become the target of a new media democracy movement, and TorStar media columnist Antonia Zerbisias has a column about it — and the grassroots media activists, lawyers, […]

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5 Jun

“A hoot”

The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten outsources himself. Using web resources only, he reports on some sort of Indian political meeting with some sort of people in some sort of strange […]

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5 Jun

Breaking a deadly silence

By Shelley Page I was at a children’s party when I overheard an acquaintance say that her husband was sick with malignant melanoma and that he wasn’t the only young […]

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5 Jun

Two arrested in Pearl murder

Police in Pakistan have arrested two men wanted in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, Canoe.ca reports via an AP story. The Wall Street Journal reporter was kidnapped […]

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4 Jun

NewsU.org

Want to improve your journalism skills without leaving your house? This project of the Poynter Institute funded by the Knight Foundation offers newsroom training to journalists and journalism students through […]

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