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1 Nov

Prédiction: les journaux seraient morts au Canada en 2020

C’est ce que prévoit le futurologue Ross Dawson dans sa dernière analyse prospective sur l’industrie des médias. Connu pour ses nombreux livres et exposés sur les stratégies d’affaires, il attribue […]

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1 Nov

Who’s reporting on Haiti’s cholera?

That question asks: Who truly cares about the suffering island? And how democratic, really, is the web? Crawford Kilian reports. When cholera hit Haiti late in October, it was just […]

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1 Nov

Ottawa Citizen cuts reporting staff

The Ottawa Citizen said goodbye to several veteran journalists last week including Bert Hill, Jenny Green, Dave Rogers, Bruce Ward and Kate Jaimet. They are among 42 employees who opted […]

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1 Nov

Quirky conservative MP gets real on Twitter

Tony Clement, Canada’s federal minister of industry, may not have the most followers of any Canadian politician, but he is the most quirky, entertaining and interactive elected tweeter in the […]

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1 Nov

Treat social media like a tip line, not a reporter: ONA conference

Craig Silverman recaps notable moments from online journalism’s top people during the Online News Association conference in Washington D.C. “Welcome to the conference where journalism supposedly doesn’t know it’s supposed […]

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1 Nov

Globe considers changes following manipulation of Fish Lake mining poll

By Andrew McLeod. The Globe and Mail is considering changes to its online polls after people noticed strange voting patterns in a poll on the Prosperity Mine proposal that would […]

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1 Nov

Toronto Star wins Online Journalism Award

The Toronto Star and National Film Board of Canada both won prizes at the Online Journalism Awards in Washington DC. The Toronto Star won best online video journalism, large site […]

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1 Nov

It’s a joke, right?

I remember being warned by an assistant city editor once to never even call a story file by anything I wouldn’t want to see entered into evidence in a libel […]

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1 Nov

Crowd-sourced stories in Washington Post

The Washington Post has begun to report crowd-sourced stories using information collected by Intersect.com, Editor and Publisher reports.

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29 Oct

Le Buzz: Rue Frontenac hebdo

Chaque vendredi, «le Buzz» revient sur les trois textes qui ont attiré le plus votre attention en piochant dans nos tweets et nos articles sur la base de nos statistiques. […]

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