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26 May

New media centre receives $552K grant

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is receiving a three-year, $552,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to establish […]

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25 May

Where the cameras have no business

After hearing of her son’s death, Jordan Manners’s mother collapsed to the ground outside a Toronto hospital, wailing in agony — and the TV news cameras showed no mercy. In […]

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24 May

Secrecy at the White House

David Sirota, a Huffington Post blogger, comments on the secrecy of  the Bush administration and the uncritical stance taken by the Washington press corps to the government’s version of what’s […]

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24 May

Some court cases to be webcast

Some court proceedings will appear on the Internet, and fees to access court documents will be reduced, Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant told journalists at an international conference. Bryant was […]

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24 May

What are your areas of interest?

Some journalism issues are here today and gone tomorrow, while others will always be hot topics of discussion. If there’s a subject you think deserves to be recognized in our J-Topics section, please let […]

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23 May

In a split second

By Steve Ladurantaye   A few days after being involved in a really nasty car crash on Canada’s busiest highway, the legendary 401, I was casually talking to Kingston Whig-Standard […]

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23 May

Nieman Fellowships announced

James Baxter from the Edmonton Journal has been awarded Harvard’s Martin Wise Goodman Nieman Fellowship. He will study the legal, economic and foreign policy questions arising from increased international focus on […]

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23 May

MIT among news challenge winners

MIT has been awarded $5 million by the Knight Foundation to create a centre focused on high-tech community news. That project earned the largest single award in a $25-million world-wide “news […]

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23 May

Ethiopia frees detained journalists

Three New York Times journalists, including Nairobi bureau chief Jeffrey Gettleman, have been freed after five days of detention in Ethiopia, the Times reports. The three, who were in Ethiopia […]

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23 May

Business reporting tutorials

This tutorials page at BusinessJournalism.org provides a series of lessons for business reporters prepared by journalism and business professors. Topics include: covering financial markets, using numbers effectively, understanding financial statements, […]

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