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11 Feb

Organization of News Ombudsmen launches new website

The international Organization of News Ombudsmen (ONO) has launched a new website “to serve as a hub for their international organization and a guidepost for news consumers to make sense […]

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11 Feb

The Mark receives funding from private investors

Canadian news and opinion start-up, The Mark, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from a group of private investors, according to an announcement from the company. The financing is […]

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11 Feb

Rédactrice en chef/Rédacteur en chef

Fondation pour le journalisme canadien Rédactrice en chef, rédacteur en chef, ProjetJ Engagement d’environ 10 heures/semaineRémunération : honoraires de 7 500 $ ou dégagement d’un (1) cours/anÉchéance du concours : 15 mars […]

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10 Feb

Award-winning articles, teaching presentations free for the classroom

If you’re looking for a perfect article for the classroom during the Olympics, try “Tourists, Stay Away, Playing Tourist in the Downtown East Side,” by Chris Koentges, up! magazine. The […]

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10 Feb

Five ways to stay focused

Mark S. Luckie from 10,000 Words recently posted a list of five tricks to improving your writing and concentration. It’s good advice for anyone, but especially for those that find […]

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10 Feb

2010 Olympic freebies: media MUST come clean

As a longtime journalist, Harvey Oberfeld wants to see the Vancouver Olympics fairly reported and commented upon. So he needs to be assured the media are not on the take. […]

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10 Feb

Canwest sale “heats up”, Globe reports

The sale of Canwest Global Communications Corp. “will likely be completed by April,” The Globe and Mail reports, as two leading consortiums are preparing to make bids. According to sources […]

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9 Feb

Stifling free speech is not really free

By Salim Mansur This column was first published by Sun Media and appears here by permission of the author. Free speech is not merely an ornamental bauble found in liberal […]

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9 Feb

Now the details

Jeffrey Dvorkin describes his blog as “an examination of what works and what doesn’t in media, ethics and journalism. And why.” 

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9 Feb

Brown wins Charles Taylor Prize

Toronto based author and Globe and Mail journalist Ian Brown is the winner of the 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Brown was chosen for his memoir The Boy […]

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