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11 Nov

CJR editorial makes case for (smart) gov’t support of journalism

Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) editors make it clear they don’t support a bailout for the newspaper business or “subsidies that would simply prop up the status quo,” but in a […]

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11 Nov

Murdoch on copyright thieves (and Google)

Alleged quote by Rupert Murdoch on his intent to sue broadcasters like the BBC for stealing the work of print journalists … oops, make that “copyright infringement”: “If you look […]

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11 Nov

Allergic Living editor confronts Chatelaine article

The allergy fur is flying. In an article published on CBC’s national web site today, Gwen Smith, editor of Allergic Living magazine, refutes a Chatelaine article written by Patricia Pearson. […]

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11 Nov

Le Trente en ligne

Le magazine Trente, magazine spécialisé en journalisme, a maintenant son blogue. L’objectif : une couverture quasi quotidienne de l’actualité des médias.

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11 Nov

Girls and math

<p>When it comes to gender gaps in math, culture matters. That's what an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/math-gender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found when digging</a> deeper into his own observations made while volunteer coaching his daughter and her friends on an all-girls math squad for their school. 

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10 Nov

MacIntyre wins the Giller

Congratulations to Linden MacIntyre, winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop’s Man (Random House Canada). As an investigative journalist MacIntyre co-hosts of The Fifth Estate […]

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10 Nov

Les journalistes manquent-ils de crédibilité?

Courtoisie de Paulémique

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10 Nov

Mansbridge named chancellor of Mount Allison University

Peter Mansbridge, anchor of CBC’s The National, will become the chancellor of Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B, CBC News announced. Mansbridge will officially take on the role in May […]

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10 Nov

Outsourcing journalists: The Current examines the issue

The Nov. 10 edition of CBC’s The Current included a segment on outsourcing journalists. Host Anna Maria Tremonti interviewed union chair at the Toronto Star and first vice-president of CEP […]

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10 Nov

Check your stats folks

Eighty per cent of Canadians live in cities. This is a claim made routinely in the media, but it really isn’t true and the mistake lies in lazy reading of […]

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