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29 Aug

NY Times boss outlines accountability measures

The New York Times‘s various mechanisms for accountability to readers and subjects, include, according to its executive editor, not just the public editor but a managing editor and associate editor […]

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27 Aug

Les journalistes courraient à leur perte avec une certification professionnelle

C’est ce qu’affirme le professeur Pierre Simard de l’École Nationale d’Administration à Québec dans une lettre ouverte publiée dans La Presse aujourd’hui en réaction à la proposition des jeunes libéraux […]

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27 Aug

A journalist by any other name…

It’s becoming harder to define who – and what – a journalist is. What should we call this new breed of information gatherers? And why does it matter? In an […]

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27 Aug

Tom Harrington new CBC Marketplace host

CBC News sports correspondent Tom Harrington will become the new co-host of CBC’s  investigative consumer journalism show Marketplace. He joins co-host Erica Johnson. Harrington has been nominated for Gemini awards […]

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27 Aug

Older adults flocking to social media

The number of older adults using social media has almost doubled during the past year, according to a study by Pew Internet. Sites like LinkedIn and Facebook are most popular […]

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27 Aug

The Twitter school of editing

Twitter may be full of self-indulgence and self-promotion, but don’t knock what it can do for you as a journalist. Aside from Twitter’s almost magical ability to connect users with […]

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27 Aug

J-school to close at one U.S. university

<p>The University of Colorado at Boulder is planning to shut down its traditional journalism and mass communication programs.<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2010/08/25/cu-boulder-committee-study-future-journalism-course-and-degree-offerings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a statement on its website</a>, the university says it wants to consider, instead, a new interdisciplinary academic program of information and communication technology and has set up an exploratory committee to help it do that.<br />

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27 Aug

Digital trends worth tracking, maybe

For those who love lists, two trend-watchers provide a short list of digital waves to watch out for over the upcoming months. The Googleization of media is particularly interesting for […]

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27 Aug

Geo-locating and journalism

The notion of tracking people’s location using Foursquare is the latest trend and some journalists are attempting to use it, mainly for the “cool” factor. However, Jason Keith, of Social […]

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27 Aug

Lessons learned from crowdsourcing

A recently released report by Pew Research and some timely comments from Al Tompkins, from Poynter Online result in a wonderful case study of the pitfalls of crowdsourcing and a […]

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