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3 Apr

Billionaire buys Tribune Co.

Property tycoon Sam Zell has purchased the Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Cubs, for $8.2 billion. Zell’s purchase of the company also includes several […]

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2 Apr

Canadian non-profit agency that trained foreign journalists folds

The Institute for Media Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS), a non-profit organization that most recently ran a controversial program to train women in journalism and the law in Afghanistan, has […]

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30 Mar

Billionaires eye Tribune Company

Two wealthy businessmen, Ronald W. Burkle and Eli Broad, have made a late bid for the Tribune Company, which counts the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune among its […]

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29 Mar

Teaching newspaper design

This is a site full of provocative ideas about newspaper layout and design from a Virgina-based design company. It includes lots of visual examples and thought provoking content.

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29 Mar

Flash journalism

An interactive website rich with tips, advice and resources for educators and others interested in learning how to use Flash to create intereactive, multimedia content for news websites.

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29 Mar

CBC Radio podcasts

This page provides links to the increasing number of podcasts available of CBC Radio’s most popular news and information programs.

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29 Mar

Activism pathfinder

AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVOCACY//TENANTS RIGHTS National Coalition on Housing and Homelessnesshttp://www.housingnow.ca Advocates for the federal government to take action to deliver housing to low income Canadians. Raising the Roofhttp://www.raisingtheroof.org/Works towards building […]

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29 Mar

June 26-30, 2007: Great Lakes Environmental Journalism Training Institute

Learn environmental science from scientists and return home with a passel of story ideas before your boss even knows that you are gone. And have fun doing it: Participants in […]

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29 Mar

Afghan media’s hard-won rights threatened

After a five-year struggle tobuild up ademocratic society, Afghan mediaare starting to lose ground. New legislation expected to be debated in Parliament within weeks threatens to return power to the […]

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29 Mar

Magazine readership rankings released

Reader’s Digest is still the most widely read magazine in Canada, followed not so closely by Canadian Geographic, Canadian Living and Chatelaine (down two spots from last year). Media in […]

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