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22 Dec

Olympic spin … er, media relations

The Seattle Times‘s Ron Judd is not impressed with the media strategy of the organizing committee of the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics, VANOC. “The organization seems hellbent on turning its […]

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22 Dec

SCC creates new libel defence of responsible communication

News The Supreme Court of Canada has created a new libel defence – the defence of responsible communication on matters of public interest. In ordering new trials in libel actions […]

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22 Dec

New legal defence: “responsible communication”

Few legal judgements make for inspiring reading — but the new libel defence outlined in the Supreme Court of Canada ruling Grant v. Torstar Corp., 2009 SCC 61 is one […]

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22 Dec

Can non-profit journalism make it in Canada?

The funding environment in Canada may not be as crowded as in the U.S., but Canada does suffer from a lack of foundation support for media ventures, writes Bilbo Poynter.  […]

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22 Dec

Want me to pay for local news? Deliver more value

The two recent CRTC hearings about the fee-for-carriage battle between cable companies and conventional broadcasters highlighted the way local TV will (and must) change, writes Greg O’Brien. I believe in […]

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21 Dec

2009, l’année de toutes les crises

Le décompte marquant la fin de l’année 2008 n’était pas encore terminé que déjà, l’année 2009 se profilait sur fond de crises. Dans les douze mois qui ont suivi, les […]

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21 Dec

Financer la presse en Russie

Au terme du forum des médias européens qui se tenait à Moscou, le président de la Russie, Dmitri Medvedev, a promis une aide matérielle à la presse russophone insistant sur […]

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21 Dec

Moving on to (better?) things

New York Times science and environment reporter Andrew Revkin is “switching gears for the second half of my professional life.” Revkin wrote in the Times that he’s not abandoning journalism […]

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21 Dec

Journalism is not the media

“Journalism, the practice, is not “the media,”” argues Jay Rosen in a mini-essay about how the practice of journalism has become trapped in media production routines. He says, “We got […]

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21 Dec

AJAs add magazine categories for 2009 awards

Three new awards have been launched to honour Atlantic Canada-based magazines. The Atlantic Journalism Awards has added three new categories beginning in 2009. The three new awards are best magazine […]

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