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7 Feb

Ottawa newsroom, archives, lost in CTV fire

A fire Sunday destroyed CTV’s Ottawa newsroom, at the station CJOH, said many reports. The cause, and how local broadcasts would be affected, was uncertain Sunday. “Among the devastating property […]

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5 Feb

Arianna Huffington: pirate publisher or saviour of newspapers?

“A few years ago, Arianna Huffington, a 59-year-old immigrant from Greece, secured millions of dollars of other people’s money to launch an internet newspaper modestly called the Huffington Post,” writes […]

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5 Feb

Talk on social media by Professor Alfred Hermida

UBC professor Alfred Hermida made a presentation at the CAJ Innovate conference in Toronto on social media principles and practice.View the slides here and check out Hermida’s blog, Reportr.net. Social […]

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5 Feb

Bogged down: access to information isn’t working

Canada was a leader in implementing access to information legislation in the early 1980s, writes Grant Buckler. But that was then – this is now. The Globe and Mail published […]

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5 Feb

Visual Thinking and the Writing Process presentation from Ryan Coleman

Innovate News Conference speaker Rya Coleman made a version of his presentation on Jan. 30 in Toronto. Watch the presentation here and check out Coleman’s website. Visual Thinking & The […]

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5 Feb

Microsoft researcher gives insight into future of news

UBC Professor Alfred Hermida offers an insightful blog post around a presentation made by Microsoft’s principle researcher Bill Buxton at the Innovate News conference in Toronto on Jan. 30. He […]

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5 Feb

LFP columnist offers worthwhile summary of Innovate News conference

Kate Dubinski, columnist at the London Free Press, offers her take on the Innovate News conference on Jan. 30 in Toronto. It is a great summary and lists key points. […]

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5 Feb

Globe to publish Sunday edition in B.C. during Olympics

The Globe and Mail will publish a Sunday edition in the B.C. market during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the paper has announced. According to a press release announcement, […]

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4 Feb

The bogeyman is made of numbers

Journalists and math don’t get along well. Most journalists are afraid of numbers. Formula-scared high school students flock to journalism school so that they can get as far away from […]

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4 Feb

Facebook sends more people to news sites than Google News

News organization that haven’t yet incorporated Facebook into their news distribution strategy might want to change course, and soon. According to research from Hitwise, Facebook is now the fourth-ranked source of visits to news and media […]

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