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28 Mar

The two key ingredients to a good piece of broadcast journalism

Ira Glass, longtime radio producer for National Public Radio talks on camera about the two most important elements in any good piece of journalism.

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28 Mar

Telling great radio stories

Ira Glass has built a reputation for being one of America’s great radio storytellers and is now the producer of National Public Radio’s This American Life. In this three part […]

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28 Mar

Dying columnist’s recantation a fake

A controversial right-wing columnist in the U.S., a supposed death-bed conversion to the Democratic way and a disgruntled one-time journalism teacher are all part ofa bizarre story from Fox News.

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28 Mar

Deep Throat notes published online

Bob Woodward’s typewritten notes from his famous parking ramp meetings with Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) have been published online. The University of Texas at Austin purchased the notes along […]

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27 Mar

News readers more plugged in, study says

People who frequently consume news are more involved in civic activity, according to a study reported in the online edition of the Globe and Mail today. The study was based […]

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26 Mar

The banality of spinning

By Kelly Toughill Ira Basen’s chilling new radio documentary, Spin Cycles, details with horrible clarity exactly how news is routinely manufactured and manipulated in this country and abroad. The show […]

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26 Mar

Freelancers vs. editors

On his blog Canadian Magazines, magazine industry observer and consultant D.B. Scott lists comments from both freelancers and editors on how they handle working with each other.

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26 Mar

Media outlets react to newspaper data

Media in Canadatakes a look at how various national media have interpreted and reacted to the Newspaper Audience Databank (NADbank)’s annual study on readership levels.

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26 Mar

The Journal of Magazine and New Media Research

The Journal of Magazine and New Media Research is a biannual electronic journal published by the Magazine Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The focus […]

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26 Mar

The end of LIFE as we know it

Time Inc. has decided to stop publication of LIFE magazine as a newspaper supplement, but still plans to launch a major Web portal tohouse its entire collection of 10 million […]

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