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24 Aug

Tweeting for votes

A look at Canadian politicians using Twitter successfully, not-so-successfully or not at all. A London Free Press article by Kate Dubinski reports that Twitter is the world’s fastest-growing social media […]

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24 Aug

Newspapers gone by 2022

Futurist Ross Dawson predicts that newspapers as we know them will be irrelevant in a decade, suggesting that journalism will be crowdsourced. In a speech to Australia’s Newspaper Publishers’ Association […]

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24 Aug

Stuff Peter Gzowski made up

A new biography of former CBC Radio journalist Peter Gzowski suggests a tumultuous private life, a fear of cameras and at least one secret child. The Canadian Press reports: “Fleming’s […]

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24 Aug

What is it with those 20-somethings? Seriously!

Aren’t you sick of being compared to a directionless couch potato? It seems like the new hot group to pick on these days is the 20-somethings, generally the just-finished-school-somethings. Apparently, […]

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24 Aug

Take charge of that journalism project

Think you can get away with just a pen and a notebook? Think again! You can still specialize, but expect to get outside of your comfort zone once in a […]

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24 Aug

Breaking the silence on Pakistan

In Pakistan, a disaster of epic proportions has unfolded. The Times of India reports it will take years for the country to recover. Yet media coverage has been relatively muted. […]

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24 Aug

Replacing textbooks with an iPad

<p>It's easy enough to imagine downloading texts to read them on an iPad. But imagine being able to download single chapters, rather than full texts. Imagine  interacting with the content through quizzes and other feature or highlighting text for others to see and sharing comments on passages with classmates.<br />Those are some of the things promised by a new textbook application for the iPad that some universities in the U.S. began using this week.</p>

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24 Aug

Music journalism: Low Fidelity

Smart rock criticism in the dailies was once number one with a bullet. Now the pages are full of boosters who never mind the bollocks. This week we feature Jessica […]

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24 Aug

Newspapers prepare for battle

Canada’s four largest media companies are gearing up to fight for ads and eyeballs with a variety of strategies – who will come out on top? J-Source recaps Canadian Business’ […]

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24 Aug

How to reveal secrets

Whistleblowing can afflict the comfortable, but can also do more harm than good, Stephen J.A. Ward writes. When will sites like WikiLeaks produce a code of ethics? Not long ago, […]

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