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28 Apr

2010 State of the News Media: lecture

Journalists are no longer managing the diet of news consumers, Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, said during Samara’s 2010 State of the News Media lecture. […]

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28 Apr

Minute of Silence

A call for newsrooms around the world to fall silent for a minute on May 3rd to protest the murder of hundreds of journalists is gathering support from organizations concerned […]

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28 Apr

Worldwide journalist death toll soars

Seventeen news media staff died violently this month, bringing the worldwide death toll to 42 journalists in 22 countries since the start of 2010, reports the International News Safety Institute […]

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27 Apr

The ethics of non-profit investigative reporting

A new roundtable ethics report addresses the ethics of nonprofit investigative newsrooms, which have risen (and even gained prestige) in recent years as traditional newsrooms continue to cut their investigative […]

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27 Apr

On net neutrality and Internet access

Steve Anderson of OpenMedia.ca, a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization that promotes an open and innovative communications system in Canada, appeared before a House of Commons committee that’s looking at the […]

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27 Apr

Abuse scandals – reviewing the coverage

In light of abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, how well is the media covering this issue? This was one of the questions behind a Sunday Edition panel discussion, […]

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27 Apr

BC entreprenuer bids for Philly papers

BC lawyer and entrepreneur Ronald N. Stern, and his company Stern Partners Inc., is one of the three groups bidding for Philadelphia’s The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News at […]

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27 Apr

If the big guys arent going to save journalism, we may as well do it ourselves

This past semester, second-year master of journalism students at Ryerson University spent six hours a week “saving journalism.” Or at least that’s what everyone called “Journalism Workshop”. Some focused on […]

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27 Apr

On the eve of destruction

The spring and summer issues of the Ryerson Review of Journalism have finally arrived. Starting with Matthew Halliday’s up-close-and-personal profile of Globe and Mail editor-in-chief John Stackhouse, J-Source will feature […]

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27 Apr

Alternative journalism: from slur to Pulitzer

Alternative journalism used to be a kind of slur in mainstream media circles, a phrase describing journalists who couldn’t or wouldn’t adhere to conventional norms. In truth, alternative journalists have […]

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