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12 Jan

Show him the money: Murdoch battles against free content

There’s no such thing as free news, according to Rupert Murdoch, and he’s prepared to go to great lengths to prove it. Ira Basen, the new contributing editor for J-Source’s […]

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12 Jan

Globe editorial hits the front page

When the Harper government decided to prorogue Parliament, The Globe and Mail denounced it on the front page. Geoffrey Stevens asks if the wall dividing news from opinion has fallen […]

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12 Jan

Will the Canwest sale offer more of the same?

When the bank pulled the plug on Canwest’s newspaper division last week, faint hope flickered in the land. A Town Hall post asked: “Are we coming to the end of […]

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11 Jan

Reporting on abuse in the Church should look beyond victims and bureaucrats

There’s more to the story of sexual abuse by clerics than victims, abusers and self-protecting bureaucracies, writes Joyce Smith. Part of the challenge of reporting on religion is recognizing the […]

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11 Jan

Bad news for online user-pay advocates

An ITZ/Belden Interactive study of reader sign-up rates at 26 U.S. dailies that put their online versions behind a paywall found the average number of online subscribers amounted to just […]

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11 Jan

British journalist killed in Afghanistan

Rupert Hamer, a defence correspondent with the U.K.’s Sunday Mirror was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday while with a U.S. marine patrol, CBC News reports. A U.S. marine was also […]

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11 Jan

New media mostly reproduces old media’s news: Pew

Although the Internet has spawned a vast increase in news sources, almost all news is still gathered by traditional media, suggests a study by the Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in […]

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10 Jan

Guerre de tranchées sur la rue Frontenac

Par Marc-André Champagne et Ariane Godbout Université Laval Le lock-out de 253 employés du Journal de Montréal perdure depuis le 24 janvier 2009. Le Journal continue depuis d’être publié grâce […]

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10 Jan

Un ancien envoyé se souvient

Une première journaliste canadienne est tombée en Afghanistan, peu avant la nouvelle année. Sa dépouille est revenue au Canada le dimanche 4 janvier 2010, avec ceux de quatre militaires canadiens. […]

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9 Jan

The new “free” in freelance

A Los Angeles Times column, “Freelance writing’s unfortunate new model,” warns that while everyone has been riveted on the loss of staff jobs, freelancing has been taking a quiet nosedive, […]

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