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26 Oct

Entrepreneurs les journalistes?

Certaines universités américaines souhaitent intégrer une forme plus entrepreneuriale du journalisme dans leur cursus. Des enseignants semblent en effet déterminés à résoudre une question morale : comment former de futurs journalistes […]

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26 Oct

Craig Silverman offers advice on avoiding errors in news writing

In the days and months leading up to the United States presidential election of 1948, all of the pollsters were reporting the same thing: Thomas E. Dewey was a shoe-in […]

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26 Oct

Rogers buys stake in web video company

Rogers Communications Inc. has purchased a minority stake in Vuguru, an American new media firm owned by former chairman of Walt Disney Co. Michael Eisner. According to a report from […]

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25 Oct

Journalism students and their course under legal scrutiny

Prosecutors in Illinois have subpoenaed the notes, email messages and even grades of students involved in an investigative reporting project. For years journalism students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of […]

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23 Oct

Live blogging the relaunch of CBC’s The National

“It really feels like CNN three years ago, except everyone is standing up,” noted Howard Bernstein, one of our live bloggers during the big relaunch of CBC News. Read more […]

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23 Oct

News anchor 0–Seagull 1

“In a scene reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Birds, a giant seagull stole the show on the Channel Nine News in Melbourne,” reported Australian online news.com.au. “The massively […]

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23 Oct

Can Derek Webster save RD? The RRJ reports

Reader’s Digest Canada has over six million readers and an ambitious new editor hired from one of the country’s most daring small magazines. Ryerson Review of  Journalism reporter Matthew Halliday […]

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23 Oct

“I don’t like to watch” — Harper

The Toronto Star spun Stephen Harper’s alleged admission — “I don’t like to watch Canadian news” — into an entire column including reaction and confirmation about whether the prime minister […]

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23 Oct

Should journalists also boycott America’s Fox?

The American administration has declared a de facto war on Fox News, which White House officials argue is a political opponent and not a legitimate media organization. The White House […]

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23 Oct

CBC producers field phone call from Edmonton hostage-taker

When a man held a group of hostages at the Workers’ Compensation Board offices in Edmonton on Wednesday, a group of journalists in Edmonton faced a number of different journalistic, […]

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