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31 Aug

Traditional media gets second life

Traditional media are scrambling to create online communities. A report on who’s doing it right—and who’s doing it wrong. This week we feature Rodney Barnes‘ story from the spring issue […]

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31 Aug

How is the Internet changing the way you think?

Every year for the past 13 years, John Brockman, founder of online publication Edge, poses a question to a diverse group of movers and shakers. In an essay for Nieman […]

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31 Aug

Why we don’t cover Pakistan

With 17 million people now homeless – and a looming food crisis – the floods in Pakistan is an important international story. Why isn’t it being treated like one? Claude […]

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31 Aug

Are we headed for an information obesity crisis?

From articles slamming Sarah Palin to celebrity gossip to pieces that confirm what you knew all along – in a world of information obesity, we only consume messages we most […]

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31 Aug

CTV hires Digital Media team

CTV Digital Media has made several new appointments, including Jon Taylor, the new senior director of content, and Rob Adams, now director of partnerships and platforms. Broadcaster Magazine reports: “[Taylor] […]

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31 Aug

No boost for community TV

This past week the CRTC has been under fire for a “paternalistic” new policy on community television. OpenMedia declared the CRTC failed to make history at an opportune moment. Groups […]

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30 Aug

CRTC’s new community TV policy “paternalistic”: CACTUS

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s new community TV policy is little better than the old one and fails to address the real issues facing community programmers, says an industry […]

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30 Aug

Bilan médiatique de l’été: les sports dominent, les femmes s’éclipsent

Les nouvelles les plus médiatisées de l’été 2010 au Québec ont été majoritairement à caractère sportif, selon Influence Communication. Dans son rapport estival dévoilé aujourd’hui, la firme de veille et […]

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30 Aug

Undercover cop posed as journalist

An undercover cop, posing as a journalist, convinced a prisoner to trust her, promising that anything he told her wouldn’t be used in court. She lied. Now, the CAJ, CBC and […]

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30 Aug

Ian Brown now a writer-in-residence

Canadian journalist and writer Ian Brown has been named writer-in-residence at the Stratford Chefs School. D.B. Scott reports on his Canadian Magazines blog: “[Brown] will spend two weeks at the chefs school […]

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