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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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7 Jan

The art of science reporting

SciDev.net reporter Elmien Wolvaardt uncovers why overly simplistic science reporting is so pervasive, noting that the media narrowly focus on breakthroughs, which don’t tell the whole story of scientific steps […]

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6 Jan

Canadians are talking online: Journalists need to join the conversation

By: Paul Benedetti What’s the future of Canadian journalism? What will Canada’s media landscape look like 10 years from now? Beats me. Only a fool would try to guess. Frankly, […]

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5 Jan

Amiel was Black’s downfall say peers

Barbara Amiel steered Conrad Black away from journalism and into the celebrity world of the super-rich, which ultimately led to the fall of Black’s Hollinger media empire, according to Black’s […]

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5 Jan

Gladwell lauds WSJ in Enron case

In his blog, The Tipping Point, author Malcolm Gladwell offers kudos to the Wall Street Journal for breaking the Enron story (vs. other interested parties who stood much more to […]

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5 Jan

CanWest bids for Alliance Atlantic

Winnipeg-based CanWest Global Communications Corp. has teamed up with Goldman Sachs & Co. to make a bid for Alliance Atlantis Communications, the Globe and Mail reported today. Can West and […]

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4 Jan

NY Times “public editor” role under review

Tipped off by a New York Observer story earlier this week, Journalism.org investigates the New York Times‘ alleged plans to terminate its ombudsman position. The position — an independent editor […]

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4 Jan

Award for Excellence in Health Care Reporting (Ontario)

DEC. 27 — Wait times, overcrowded ERs, cancer care, the impact the environment has on health, the struggle to care for millions suffering from HIV/AIDS, and nurses’ working conditions are […]

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1 Jan

The end of the CJR Daily

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism has cut the budget for CJR Daily, a website filled with media criticism from the Columbia Journalism Review. As a result two of its […]

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1 Jan

Columbia rethinks journalism education

Columbia’s school of journalism introduces a new MA program, along with its traditional MS program, three years after Columbia’s president suggested journalism education focused too much on skills and not […]

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