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10 Aug

Copyright the hot summer issue

“I’ve made my living as a freelance writer for over thirty years. It’s tougher out there now than ever,” writes Margaret Swaine on the comment page of the federal Copyright […]

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10 Aug

“We need the Walrus”: mag launches video appeal for donations

The Walrus Foundation has launched a video this month, starring Canadian celebrities, in an attempt to inform Canadians about The Walrus and encourage more people to read, subscribe and donate […]

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10 Aug

Journaliste itinérant

Patrick Grandjean a passé près de deux mois en Indonésie. Son expédition, réalisée grâce à une bourse Nord-Sud, avait pour objectif de parler de la reconstruction du pays après le […]

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7 Aug

Alberta freelancer in captivity calls TV station

Amanda Lindhout, a freelance journalist from Sylvan Lake, Alta., called OMNI TV on Monday pleading for help almost one-year after being kidnapped in Somalia, The Globe and Mail reports. According […]

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7 Aug

9 fired at Montreal news talk radio station

Eight on-air personalities and one off-air employee have been let go from Montreal’s English radio station CJAD, CBC News reports. Late-night talk show host Peter Anthony Holder, weekend hosts Laurie […]

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7 Aug

North Korea frees U.S. journalists, controversy remains

Euna Lee and Laura Ling arrived back in the United States on August 6. Arrested near the border between North Korea and China in March, the two reporters for Current […]

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6 Aug

News Corp to charge for online news

Rupert Murdoch announced his News Corp.-owned publications — which in North America include the Wall Street Journal and The New York Post — will charge for online news, within one […]

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6 Aug

Should the NY Times lose the public editor position?

The public editor position was created at The New York Times after it was discovered that reporter Jayson Blair was making things up. Is the role going to remain a […]

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6 Aug

UBC j-school and CBC Radio 3 team up to create music wiki

The University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism has been awarded a $15,000 grant to work with CBC Radio 3 to create a Canadian music wiki. Journalism professor Alfred […]

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6 Aug

CBC Newsworld turns 20

As CBC’s 24-hour news channel, Newsworld, celebrates its twentieth anniversary, Toronto Star feature writer Oakland Ross examines the network’s continued search for an identity, in a recent article called “Can […]

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