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24 Apr

The Bang-Bang Club

Salon has an interesting article on war-zone journalism, one that is unfortunately apropos today.

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24 Apr

Investing in investigative work

“Where the marketplace is unable to serve, that’s the role of public media,” PBS president Paula Kerger said last year. It appears PBS and NPR are putting that motto into […]

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24 Apr

Reporter’s questions to Harper drowned out by partisan supporters?

More turbulent relations between journalists and Stephen Harper on the campaign trail.  A crowed of partisan supporters apparently led by Conservative staffers, created shouting chaos when CBC’s Terry Milewski pressed […]

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21 Apr

University of Colorado shutters Boulder J-School

Last week, the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents voted to close its School of Journalism, located at the Boulder campus. Before you start blaming it on industry tumult, though, […]

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21 Apr

L’Université du Colorado ferme son école de journalisme

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">L'école de journalisme de l'Université du Colorado fermera ses portes le 30 juin. L'établissement a décidé de mettre en place un nouveau programme d'étude appelé «Journalisme Plus» qui comprendra des cours en journalisme couplés à l'étude d'une autre matière.</p>

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21 Apr

Mass tweet in protest of election results blackout?

Ah, there’s nothing like being collectively called out as a country by Jay Rosen on Twitter. As far as call-outs go, at least, it’s pretty polite: “So, is anyone in […]

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21 Apr

Ivor Shapiro is Ryerson’s new School of Journalism chair

A familiar face at J-Source is Ryerson University’s new School of Journalism Chair. Ivor Shapiro is the founding editor of our very own Canadian Journalism Project and its website J-Source.ca. […]

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21 Apr

Libye: deux photoreporters tués, deux autres blessés

La guerre de Libye a fait deux nouvelles victimes parmi les journalistes. Le Britannique Tim Hetherington et l’Américain Chris Hondros, photographes respectivement pour Vanity Fair et Getty Images, ont tous […]

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20 Apr

Toronto Star reporter detained, interrogated in China

Toronto Star reporter Bill Schiller was recently detained and interrogated by Chinese police after he took a photo of a woman being surrounded by plainclothes police in Beijing. The woman […]

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20 Apr

TVO’s The Agenda gets a second host

Piya Chattopadhyay has signed on as a second host of TVO’s flagship current affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin. According to the TVO press release, Chattopadhyay will fill-in for […]

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