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27 Jan

Women’s Post publisher running for mayor of Toronto

Sarah Whatmough-Thomson, publisher of The Women’s Post, has announced she’s running for mayor of Toronto, CBC News reports. Thomson is planning to leave her job as publisher at Women’s Post […]

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27 Jan

Q media panel debates Haiti coverage

A media panel gathered on CBC Radio’s Q, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, debated whether the coverage of the earthquake in Haiti has been “verging on ‘disaster porn’.” The panelists were […]

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26 Jan

Brush up on your new media speak before CAJ Innovate News conference

With the Innovate News conference, hosted by The Canadian Association of Journalists and the CAJ Education Foundation, right around the corner, now might be a good time to get up […]

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26 Jan

To be or not to be ethnic media

Panelists at a recent Toronto event weigh in on the use of the term “ethnic” to refer to the growing phenomenon that is multicultural media. Is it a label to […]

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26 Jan

Free newspapers! Get your free newspapers here!

An MP in Scotland is plotting to offer a free one-year newspaper subscription to all young people in an effort to foster long-term readerships. In a column for The Scotsman, […]

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26 Jan

Journalism Integrity Award: And the winner is…

Employees who rescued a local TV station win J-Source’s first Journalism Integrity Award. J-Source editor-in-chief and chair of the awards committee, Janice Neil, explains why. “At a time when traditional […]

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26 Jan

Haiti coverage debated

Images of war and disaster are heavily sanitized in North American news. The public has become used to seeing symbols of death, not actual death. It’s a situation that leaves […]

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26 Jan

How I taught my students to think about the journalism they read

There’s no way students will read 5000-word articles every week, colleagues told Ryerson j-prof Bill Reynolds. But they did, and Reynolds learned that despite the various narcotics of the web, […]

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26 Jan

Flexibility equals success in tough job market

Five UBC journalism grads found success after j-school. Alfred Hermida explains how. Stephanie Lim is a bright twenty-something who graduated top of her class in May 2009 from the UBC […]

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25 Jan

Haitian earthquake: Its not about you, Dr. Gupta

Journalists were among the first outsiders to rush to the scene of the earthquake in Haiti. While most have described the devastation and challenges confronting survivors with professionalism and sensitivity, […]

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