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4 Jun

Canadian weekly’s website wins North American award

Metroland weekly Northumberland News took second place in the Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA) awards recently. The newspaper, which serves Northumberland County, about one hour east of Toronto, was recognized […]

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4 Jun

Emerging from a culture of failure

“For a generation, journalists have been steeped in a culture of failure. Even during boom years, newspapers laid off employees, offered buy-outs, froze the hiring off new employees and cut […]

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4 Jun

Good database for finding journalists on Twitter

This is a pretty reliable resource to tracking down journalists using Twitter. MediaOnTwitter was one of the first websites to offer a comprehensive servivce.

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4 Jun

Beat reporters valuable in online newsrooms

“I argued then — and I still believe now — that if we can better exploit and market the deep, full-bodied understanding that beat reporters have of their areas of […]

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4 Jun

Bloggers and journalists in UAE seek common ground

“Last week I was a panelist at a Gulf online writers and journalism workshop in Dubai that brought together the leading GCC online journalists to discuss whether bloggers and mainstream […]

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4 Jun

Bloggers hold key to investigative journalism in Kenya

“As fewer and fewer newspapers commit enough resources, time and manpower to produce in-depth investigative reports, many citizen media enthusiasts seem to suggest that citizen journalists can step in to […]

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4 Jun

Tina Brown pontificates on the future of journalism online

“In an interview with the Telegraph, Tina Brown expresses her views on the future of newspapers and the professional journalist.   The once queen bee of the high-end glossy magazine industry […]

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4 Jun

Video: I Want Media panel on future of journalism

I Want Media, the website project of New York University journalism professor Patrick Phillips, brought together five leading U.S. media folks to discuss the future of the industry. Phillips moderated […]

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4 Jun

Mansbridge “flying blind” without prompter

When computer systems crashed at CBC headquarters June 1, The National anchor Peter Mansbridge was left reading the news from papers on his desk instead of the usual teleprompter. The […]

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3 Jun

Roles shifting at CBC: Smith, Solomon, Kelley, MacNeil and more

As a part of the layoffs and structural shifting at CBC, a few more staff changes have been put in place, The Toronto Star reports. The changes the Star reported […]

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