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14 Oct

2009 Joseph Howe Symposium considers the future of news

The news business is facing life and death challenges. On Saturday, Oct. 17 at the University of King’s College, a powerhouse of journalistic thinkers will consider where it might be […]

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14 Oct

RTNDF offers new scholarship for broadcast journalism students

RTNDF, the foundation arm of The Association of Electronic Journalists, has established a new scholarship for broadcast journalism students. Funded by 660 News in Calgary, the scholarship will be called […]

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14 Oct

Creators need to pay creators

Get a musician friend to compose music for free for your audio slideshow or online video: that was one suggestions from multi-media trainer Robb Montgomery of Visualeditors.com at a recent Wordstock seminar. But […]

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14 Oct

Rogers Media signs content deal with MSN.ca

Content from Rogers media-owned properties will now be available on MSN.ca, the company has announced. According to a press release about the deal, Rogers content from Chatelaine, Flare, Teen Flare, […]

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13 Oct

Fighting for access to Canadian history

Tommy Douglas has been the subject of numerous books, documentaries, movies and debates that finally crowned him, in a CBC competition, as the Greatest Canadian. But the federal government is […]

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13 Oct

What’s next for news: video of panel discussion

On Friday, Oct. 2. Ryerson’s School of Journalism and the Ryerson Journalism Alumni Association (RJAA), in association with J-Source, presented “What’s Next for News? A Conversation About the Future of […]

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13 Oct

Free Press considering replacing Sunday edition with tabloid

The Winnipeg Free Press is considering cutting its traditional Sunday edition, CBC News reports. According to the CBC report, the Free Press is “looking at replacing the Sunday paper with […]

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13 Oct

Are you checking sure?

There was no time to be flustered, remembers Christal Gardiola in this new journalist’s essay on her first foray into the world of magazine fact-checking. National Post columnist Nathalie Atkinson […]

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13 Oct

From zero to a television news story in four weeks

After covering the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, CBC video journalist Sasa Petricic went back with a very different mission. Laxmi Parthasarathy sat down with Petricic in Rwanda […]

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13 Oct

Guidelines for guidelines: social media policies spark debate

Since everyone is on Twitter, we have to let journalists tweet away, unrestrained, writes Stephen J.A. Ward. But as newsrooms start to create editorial policies for social media, we need […]

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