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19 Dec

Mixing PR with journalism

In recent years, German dailies have come under fire for increasingly blurring the line between advertising and editorial content as they try to stay afloat in an increasingly competitive market. […]

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19 Dec

Fostering excellence….

…is about managing journalism and journalists in a way that inspires everyone involved to rise to the highest challenges of their craft. In this area of J-Source, you’ll find resources […]

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19 Dec

Columbia j-school cheating scandal

Columbia University graduate journalism students allegedly cheated “on an open-book, take-home exam in a pass-fail course– about ethics,” according to the New York Times. The news led News Busters blogger […]

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19 Dec

Covering Darfur

Ryerson Review of Journalism reporter Meena Nallainathan investigates the media’s role in the lack of continued coverage of the crisis in Darfur. Nallainathan uncovers numerous reasons why Darfur falls off […]

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19 Dec

American media pulling out of Canada

The number of foreign correspondents based in Canada has dwindled since the 1990s, and Maclean’s magazine’s Chris Selley discusses the trend of American news outlets pulling reporters out. Time Canada, […]

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19 Dec

Al-Jazeera “worth every penny”

In Common Ground magazine, media researcher Hsing Lee calls the new English language Al-Jazeera service a “breath of fresh air and a return to true investigative journalism on TV.” Al-Jazeera […]

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19 Dec

Non-fiction writer’s manifesto

In a recent entry on the Dooney’s Cafe site (www.dooneyscafe.com), writer Myrna Kostash claims non-fiction writers still “don’t count” in the Canadian literary landscape. Kotash, who joined the Writers Union […]

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15 Dec

U.S. Census: Internet more popular than newspapers

For the first time in history, time spent on the Internet has surpassed time spent reading newspapers. The stat is just one of many collected in the U.S. Census’ Statistical […]

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12 Dec

New Yahoo! citizen journalism portal

Reuters and Yahoo! have partnered up to launch “You Witness News” — a Yahoo! site where citizen journalistscan post photos and videos of newsworthy events. To encourage standards of broadcast […]

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12 Dec

Panel discusses media coverage of Afghanistan

Canadian Journalist blogs on a panel discussionabout media coverage of the war in Afghanistan, hosted on Dec. 7 by the Canadian Journalism Foundation. The panelists — Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie, CTV’s […]

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