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23 Sep

Local TV news faces challenges, too

While most headlines about the future of journalism have focused on how the internet is killing newspapers, local television news has difficulties of its own. Canwest and CTVglobemedia have been […]

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22 Sep

What’s next for news? Shirky, Keen & Ingram to discuss at Ryerson

Globe and Mail communities editor Mathew Ingram, media futurist Clay Shirky and author Andrew Keen are gathering at The Ryerson School of Journalism on Oct. 2 to debate and discuss […]

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22 Sep

Crawley, Williams, Knight join panel at Rotman/CJF program

Phillip Crawley, publisher and CEO of The Globe and Mail; Barbara Williams, executive vice president of content at Canwest Broadcasting; and Douglas Knight, president of St. Joseph Media; will discuss […]

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22 Sep

CJR series tackles questions about future of news

The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is looking at the future of news from all angles in a new series called “Press Forward: Dialogues on the Future of News.” In an […]

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22 Sep

Can reporting prosper in a parasitic golden age?

Information still costs money, but there are ways to make journalism pay its way, Ira Basen and Rem Rieder told a Toronto audience. Melissa Wilson reports. The conversation about journalism […]

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22 Sep

Always question sources’ motives

QUESTION: In All the President’s Men, I heard about the two-source rule on information that comes from an anonymous source. But I don’t hear about it much anymore and have […]

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21 Sep

You’ve been outsourced

Some Saskatchewan media jobs are moving east – way east. Canwest’s Regina Leader-Post plans to outsource ad department work to India and the Philippines, according to reports by CBC Saskatchewan […]

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21 Sep

Longtime political columnist dies at 89

Douglas Fisher, a highly respected political columnist, died in Ottawa at age 89, CBC News reports. Fisher, who began his career in the 60s as a freelance political columnist for […]

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21 Sep

Transcon sells two titles to Quarto Communications

Toronto-based Quarto Communications has purchased two Transcontinental Media magazine titles, Canadian Home Workshop and Outdoor Canada, Masthead Online reports. Quarto is publisher of Cottage Life and Explore. Financial details of […]

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20 Sep

Demand the experience you want from journalism school

Journalism schools do their best to give students a well-rounded education and to prepare them for the real world, but those who set the curricula are generally neither 21 nor […]

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