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1 Sep

AJAs announce new categories

The Atlantic Journalism Awards has announced five new categories, which become effective immediately. The new categories are: Online News Reporting – recognizing online journalism for a single story from web […]

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1 Sep

CJF and Rotman offer media management education program

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto have partnered to create an executive education program aimed specifically at senior media managers. […]

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1 Sep

Seven mag staffers fired at Rogers

Six full-time editorial employees at Canadian Business and the editor of MoneySense lost their jobs last week in a massive shake-up at Rogers Publishing, Masthead Online reports. According to the […]

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31 Aug

If you wait long enough…

While some newspapers are still screwing up the courage to jump on the Internet bandwagon, others are jumping off. Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi asks if it’s time to emphasize […]

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28 Aug

The uncertain legacy of Ted Kennedy

BySusan Reisler Teddy Kennedy’s death did not surprise me – we knew he would soon succumb to his merciless brain cancer. But what did surprise me – as a former […]

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28 Aug

In Journal: Trauma, democracy, foreign ownership and war

Articles published in the most recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Media Studies that may be of interest to the journalism community: “Informed Mutual Support: Options on Violence and […]

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27 Aug

People hardwired toward local and negative news

Well, waddaya know? Journalism’s traditional and much-criticized tendency to attract readers by emphasing negativity and localism appears to have measurable, scientific merit. According to a study from the University of Missouri School […]

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26 Aug

Canada speaks on Maziar Bahari detention

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has pressed his Iranian counterpart, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, to release detained journalist Maziar Bahari, said news reports. A CBC story is here; Agence […]

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26 Aug

Online tutorials for multimedia beginners

You can find tutorials and tip sheets to teach yourself a variety of multimedia tools from making Google maps to telling stories with audio and video at a vareity of different […]

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25 Aug

Wente and Dowd cell phone columns: Too close to call?

A column by The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente so closely resembles one written by The New York Times‘s Maureen Dowd that at least one blog is suggesting she stole […]

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