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21 Oct

CBC News set for massive relaunch Monday

CBC put on quite a show today for media and special guests in preparation for Monday, Oct. 26’s complete relaunch of CBC News. As we walked through the doors on […]

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21 Oct

2009 Jack Webster award winners announced

British Columbia broadcaster Bill Good was awarded the Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd annual Jack Webster Awards in Vancouver on Oct. 20. Jack Webster Foundation co-chair Neil […]

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21 Oct

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do

“Can vice save journalism?” asks Maureen Dowd. “We need life rafts,” she wrote in The New York Times. “Publications once buoyed by splashy ads evoking drinking and sex are now […]

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21 Oct

Au sujet de l’anonymat des sources

Le milieu municipal montréalais est sur la sellette en raison d’allégations de malversation et de corruption. L’information provient principalement de sources anonymes. Jusqu’où le recours à ce type de source […]

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21 Oct

Au-delà du journalisme citoyen

Au terme d’un forum sur les médias citoyens, l’Institut du Nouveau Monde (INM) a amorcé un partenariat avec les plates-formes Parole citoyenne et son pendant anglophone CitizenShift. Michel Venne, directeur […]

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20 Oct

A new form of censorship?

An important part of free expression is access to information. In the area of food safety, however, North Americans are not not getting adequate information about the food they eat. […]

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20 Oct

UBC Conference on health and environment

Registration closes Oct. 23 for a Nov. 6 science journalism conference in Vancouver. Health and Environment Reporting in a Connected World is a day-long event at the University of British […]

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20 Oct

The audience is still just the audience

There is clearly defined space for the public to participate in journalism, but, writes Alfred Hermida, there are still very few signs that news organizations are reinventing their relationship with […]

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20 Oct

Free Press announces changes to weekend edition

Last week’s reports that the Winnipeg Free Press was planning to discontinue its Sunday broadsheet edition and replace it with a tabloid called On7 have been confirmed by the company. […]

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20 Oct

David Olive’s “stubborn faith in newspapers”

Toronto Star business and current affairs columnist David Olive explains his “stubborn faith in newspapers” in a recent post to his Star blog Everybody’s Business. He outlines the reasons for […]

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