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8 Jan

June 6, 2007: CJF Annual Awards Gala

The Canadian Journalism Foundation’s annual awards gala will be held at the Royal York Hotel on Wed., June 6, 2007. Visit the site for a gallery of images from previous […]

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8 Jan

Environment pathfinder

EDUCATION Canada’s Aquatic Environmentshttp://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/ A well-organized, user-friendly site offering general information on all aspects of Canada’s aquatic environments. Intended for use in the classroom but useful for journalists seeking backgrounders […]

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8 Jan

Global National top-rated newscast

There’s been little fanfare about Global-TV’s national newscast overtaking CTV and CBC, notes Robert Ballantyne on the Popjournalism website. Anchor Kevin Newman says even he was surprised that the show, […]

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7 Jan

The YouTube effect

In a recent Los Angeles Times column, Moises Naim says YouTube’s journalism could be a more powerful version of the CNN effect. Naim, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, describes the […]

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7 Jan

Trump’s late December filler story

Before Rosie O’Donnell started mocking Donald Trump, Brian Montopoli posted about Trump’s late December filler story on his CBS News blog, Public Eye. Montopoli says, “[T]here are plenty of reasons […]

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7 Jan

The Judith Miller Distinguished Journalism Awards

Huffington Post blogger Joseph A. Palermo hands out the first Judith Miller Distinguished Journalism Awards to “The New York Times reporters who revealed themselves to be toadies of the Bush […]

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7 Jan

Year of the Muslim media

Charlie Beckett, on his Guardian blog Comment is Free . . . , discusses British media coverage of Muslims in 2006. Beckett writes the “year of the Muslim media began […]

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7 Jan

Media Mensch 2006

The New York Observer names former Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet its Media Mensch 2006 “for [r]efusing to [g]ut [n]ewsroom [p]roduct.” NYO says Baquet “spit into the eye of […]

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7 Jan

Wall Street Journal launches blogs, online commmunity

Editorial executives at the Wall Street Journal are now comfortable launching blogs on the paper’s website, reports journalist Mark Glaser on his PBS blog, MediaShift. Glaser interviews WSJ.com managing editor […]

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7 Jan

Casualties of Iraq war

The New York Times looks back at 2006 with an online package, “Casualties of War.” The three-part feature leads with a picture composite, “Faces of the Dead,” which consists of […]

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