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27 Jul

Scandals at the Telegraph-Journal

Wafergate, plagiarism and unexpected firings: 2009 was full of scandal at the Irvings’ flagship daily. Why Neil Reynolds has been called to the rescue—again. This week we feature Chelsea Murray‘s […]

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27 Jul

Factchecking: Off the rails

Prue Hemelrijk and the golden age of fact-checking—and why magazines will never see such rigour again. This week we feature Suniya Kukaswadia‘s feature for the spring issue of the Ryerson […]

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27 Jul

Afghan photojournalism gets Canadian support

As the war in Afghanistan drags on, Canadians have seen a lot of photos depicting violence and soldiers through the lens of international photojournalists. But what about Afghanistan as seen […]

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27 Jul

What’s in an anchor?

When CTV and Global both announced, within days of each other, that they had found new hosts for their flagship newscasts, a big part of the storyline drew on the […]

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27 Jul

Riot survival guide for journalists

Freelance journalist Dominik Bärlocher has spent the past three years on “riot duty” at a Swiss newspaper. He’s turned his experience covering violent football riots and May Day protests into […]

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27 Jul

Ottawa Citizen publisher retires

After 35 years working for the Ottawa Citizen, publisher Jim Orban will retire on Aug. 6th to pursue new opportunities, National Post president Gordon Fisher announced. The Ottawa Citizen reports: […]

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27 Jul

A new kind of journalism

The release of classified information about the Afghan War by WikiLeaks and three news organizations is being described by some as a new form of “assymetrical” journalism. In a column in […]

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27 Jul

Census debates

The Canadian Association of Journalists has waded into the census debate, telling the government, “Don’t slash our census.” Indeed, Statistics Canada data has long occupied a spot in J-Source’s resource […]

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26 Jul

WikiLeaks challenges news practices

As military officials, world leaders and politicians debate the impact of the release of  tens of thousands of raw classified field reports on the Afghan war, journalists and those who […]

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26 Jul

“We need more opinion in news, not less”

In the wake of journalists being punished and/or fired for expressing their opinions, Micheal Arrington of TechCrunch writes that readers have a right to know what a journalist’s opinions are. […]

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