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28 Jun

Morning news revival

Forget the ol’ industry doom and gloom, say panelists at the RTNDA conference in Halifax: Morning news is on a roll. David Thurton tells us why news shows at the […]

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28 Jun

Guide d’utilisation de Twitter pour les journalistes

<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;"><span style="font-weight:normal">Twitter a lancé hier un site web à l'intention des salles de nouvelles, </span><a href="https://dev.twitter.com/media/newsrooms"><i><span style="font-weight:normal">Twitter for Newsroom</span></i></a> <span style="font-weight:normal">ou </span><i><span style="font-weight:normal">#Tfn</span></i><span style="font-weight:normal;">. Le réseau social y regroupe une série de ressources et d'outils pour accompagner les journalistes à chaque étape de leur travail, du reportage à la publication.</span></p>

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28 Jun

One j-student explains why she will no longer work for free

<p><span style="font-style: italic;">It's time for media companies to stop offering unpaid internships, says a journalism student, </span><strong style="font-style: italic;">Bethany Horne</strong><span style="font-style: italic;">. The only students who can afford to work for free the summer, she says, are those lucky enough to come from families with money. That's no way to bring diverse voices or fresh perspectives into a newsroom. </span><br />

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28 Jun

Twitter for journalists

Twitter gave a big nudge to old-school journalists yesterday when it launched Twitter for Newsrooms, or #Tfn. While most media-savvy reporters already use Twitter, others wouldn’t touch it. Or, as […]

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28 Jun

Cross-dressing at the first Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education

Read our round-up for the highlight presentation and discussion on journalism and academic cross-dressing; what banned U.S. academic Bill Ayers had to say; plus what happens when academic research hits […]

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28 Jun

Beam me up Scotty: The struggle to cover health and science in daily news

CTV Health Reporter Karen Owen shares the challenges of covering highly complicated health and science stories within the confines of television news.After a recent assignment I couldn’t help but marvel […]

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28 Jun

A riot just broke out. Now what?

When the Canucks lost the cup, reporters covering the game found themselves in the middle of a riot. Dana Lacey tells us how two Vancouver newsrooms, The Province and Global […]

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28 Jun

War Torn

When foreign lands fall into chaos. In this memoir, Ryerson Review of Journalism reporter Vesna Plazacic asks why her younger self blamed Canadian media for failing to fully expose what […]

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28 Jun

Big, Brash & Bold: report says to drop all telecom-media foreign ownership limits

The CD Howe Institute’s most recent report is brash, writes Dwayne Winseck, and some might dress it up as bold, but it definitely ain’t right. Why the institute’s three-page report […]

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28 Jun

Being Frank: Inside the newsroom firings, the mag’s decision to write about it, and what’s next

Halifax-based Frank Magazine fired the majority of its newsroom last week, and then wrote about it in the current issue — with typical Frank sauciness, of course. Associate J-Source editor […]

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