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26 Nov

Al Jazeera approved in Canada

OTTAWA, Nov. 26 /CNW/ – Al Jazeera English is pleased to announce that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has included the award-winning international news and current affairs channel […]

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25 Nov

Can investigative journalism thrive without profit?

With non-profit and foundation-sponsored institutes of investigative journalism emerging across the U.S., Cecil Rosner examines the burning question of sustainability. The U.S. has seen an explosion of non-profit efforts aimed […]

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25 Nov

Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan released at last

(Toronto, November 25, 2009) Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is overjoyed by the news that Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and her Australian colleague Nigel Brennan have been released after […]

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25 Nov

Lindhout/Brennan released

Journalists Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan were released Wednesday, reported numerous sources, more than one year after they were kidnapped near Mogadishu in August 2008. Lindhout told CTV news that […]

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25 Nov

Un journaliste retraité chez les Verts

La politique attire un nouveau journaliste dans ses rangs. Jacques Rivard, ancien journaliste à Radio-Canada, est devenu chef adjoint du Parti vert du Canada, dirigé par Elizabeth May. Le nouveau politicien […]

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24 Nov

Confessions of a news 2.0 junkie

We all know that in an age of social media, news is consumed in many different ways. The days of waiting until the newspaper drops on your front steps to […]

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24 Nov

Tweeting tragedy

It is now widely accepted that the first stories and images to emerge from natural or main made disasters are more likely to come from citizen journalists using social media […]

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24 Nov

News 1.0 meets News 2.0 on YouTube Direct

“Send us your videos!” That’s the plea that now regularly goes out from mainstream media outlets to their online audiences. Everyone is looking for user generated video content. The reasons […]

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24 Nov

Free money, just apply

Of the thousands of broadcast students in Canada, only 44 applied for five RTNDA scholarships, writes George Hoff.  Why some broadcast programs pay little or no attention to lucrative scholarships […]

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24 Nov

When should editors “unpublish” online news reports?

As public editor of the Toronto Star, Kathy English is faced with requests to remove published content from the newspaper’s  website.  What’s fair to readers? What’s fair to those reported […]

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