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25 Jan

Haiti is hot, Afghanistan is not: Blatchford

“Afghanistan’s time in the sun of the world’s attention was over, boom, the second that earthquake hit a country even poorer and more miserable and photogenic than it,” writes Globe […]

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25 Jan

Long-time Gazette reporter dies at 72

On January 21, James Ferrabee, a long-time Canadian journalist, died in hospital in Sherbrooke, The Gazette reports. He was 72. Ferrabee began his journalism career at The Gazette in Montreal […]

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25 Jan

Click and the hyperlinks are gone

Once in a while software designers do something little that makes life a lot easier.  The folks at Microsoft have done that by adding a shortcut command to remove hyperlinks […]

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22 Jan

Ingram reflects on leaving Globe for GigaOM

The Globe and Mail’s first communities editor, Mathew Ingram, left the Globe in early January to join tech blogging network GigaOM. In a post to his blog, he explains that […]

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22 Jan

Fearless Five brave Facebook and Twitter

On Feb. 1, five journalists will reportedly lock themselves up in a French farmhouse for several days with only Twitter and Facebook for outside information, “to test the quality of […]

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22 Jan

Citytv cuts “brutal evisceration,” says Globe’s Doyle

“What fresh hell is this?” asks Globe and Mail television columnist John Doyle in a recent column titled “Cuts to CITY an evisceration of an icon.” In response the the […]

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22 Jan

Horrors vs. taste: CBC producer describes the newsroom debate

Broadcasters and publishers know they can count on at least two responses to portraying graphic images of death and destruction: complaints about disgusting or invasive displays of blood and gore; […]

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21 Jan

Peruvian journalist jailed for defamation

The editor of the Peruvian weekly Nor Oriente has been sentenced to one year in jail and fined 5,000 soles (1,750 US dollars) for defamation. The Committee to Protect Journalists […]

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21 Jan

Study examines how ads impact credibility of news

An editorial study conducted by the Seattle Times looked at how contextual advertising (affinity to content determines ad placement) impacted readers’ perceptions of online news content. It found most readers were comfortable with […]

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21 Jan

Future of media studypalooza

As part of a newly launched study into the future of media, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has posted a lengthy, hyperlinked collection of recent studies and articles on media’s future from a wide […]

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