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15 Sep

New site focuses on sports journalism

The National Sports Journalism Center at Indiana University has just launched sportsjournalism.org, a website devoted to the subject of sports journalism and sports media.

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15 Sep

Google launches revenue-sharing news reading service

Amid all the concern from news organizations about Google News, the online giant has launched Fast Flip, a news reading service from which Google will share ad revenues with publishers. […]

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15 Sep

Politics junkies in journalism?

QUESTION: I have always been a very large news and political junkie. So recently, when I decided to make a career change I enrolled in an intensive broadcast journalism program. […]

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15 Sep

Journalism in the entrepreneurial age

Funding experiments are welcome and there’s nothing wrong with journalists looking for new ways to pay for reporting, writes Stephen J.A. Ward. But why assume funding from a foundation is […]

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15 Sep

Disgusted with Foreign Affairs: The Mohamud ordeal Part 1

There was a time when reporters enjoyed a friendly relationship with the Department of Foreign Affairs, writes the Toronto Star’s John Goddard. But those days are over and telling the […]

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15 Sep

The best job in the world: The Mohamud ordeal Part 2

Counterterrorism units, bin Laden’s chauffeur and gin and tonics in Cairo turn into an urgent ten-hour journey to Nairobi to help a colleague tell the story of a Toronto woman […]

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15 Sep

Washing hands of H1N1: tracking the institutional response

As students flood hallways once again, the looming spectre of an influenza H1N1 outbreak is making institutions think twice about a stalwart measure of student accountability this semester – the doctor’s note. Recommendations for […]

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14 Sep

Pew survey: U.S. media credibility at all-time low

The latest Pew survey into the credibility of U.S. news media paints a bleak picture, with the news media’s reputation reaching or matching all-time lows for accuracy, neutrality, independence and willingness […]

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14 Sep

Comments as critique

Someone dubbed “Neocynic” is out to embarrass the Globe and Mail for its priorities. The commenter is repeatedly posting sarcastic comments saying that 12 staffers are covering the Toronto International […]

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14 Sep

Magazines Canada launches podcast

Professional industry association Magazines Canada has launched Audiomag, a podcast focused on magazine industry issues. Audiomag is produced by Tina Pittaway, a Toronto-based writer and broadcaster. The first episode features […]

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