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3 Aug

Female filmmakers sweep JHR documentary awards

Nathaniel Laywine writes about female documentary journalists, their subjects and their role in the 2nd annual Journalists for Human Rights documentary film festival.Sure, 2010 marked an important victory for female […]

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3 Aug

Should I share quotes with a source?

QUESTION: Some journalists willingly share quotes and stories with sources before publication. The argument is that it helps with confirming complicated facts and assuring accuracy. I’ve always been taught to […]

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3 Aug

Open press gallery to all journalists: an open letter

An open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper urges the House of Commons to allow all journalists access to the parliamentary press gallery, not just the “clique” members of the […]

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3 Aug

The quitting letter

An employee of a Canadian magazine has written an extensive – and cutting – resignation letter, detailing problems with management and “poor quality” content.” The anonymous employee, who signed off […]

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3 Aug

Documents in the raw undermine propaganda

While the leaking of Afghan war documents has been criticized in some Canadian columns, on the pages of J-Source WikiLeaks is described as citizen journalism we need and a new […]

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3 Aug

I write like…

When you first embarked on your career in journalism, who did you want to be? A newer, hipper version of Tom Wolfe? Hunter S. Thompson? John Hersey? Chuck Klosterman? Joan […]

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29 Jul

Magazine classics re-imagined for digital age

What would some of our most beloved magazine stories look like if they were written today? The Pitch re-imagines stories by literary journalism pioneers Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom […]

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29 Jul

WikiLeaks vs NYT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called the New York Times “pusillanimous” and “unprofessional” after the publication chose not to link to the leaked Afghan war log documents directly. NYT chastised […]

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29 Jul

Murdoch jacks Obama’s WSJ subscription by half a mil

The Rupert-Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has increased the White House’s subscription bill by half a million dollars to $600,000 a year. Politico reports: ““Obviously, we’re not paying $500,000. This is […]

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29 Jul

Better to drip than to leak

Slate’s Jack Shafer offers some unsolicited tips for how WikiLeaks could make the most out of its next big scoop – and explains why the current leak has fallen flat. […]

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