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12 May

Étudier le journalisme… en Mac, SVP

Le Département d’information et de communication à l’Université Laval demande à ses étudiants au premier cycle, y compris ceux qui s’inscrivent en journalisme, d’acheter un ordinateur portable Mac. Les étudiants […]

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12 May

Bluff ou véritable précarité économique?

Lise Millette, ProjetJ | Le Boston Globe s’est entendu avec ses syndiqués. Le quotidien avait annoncé qu’en raison de problèmes financiers, de l’effritement des revenus publicitaires et de pertes appréhendées […]

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12 May

Walrus publisher pleads for donations in online video

Shelley Ambrose, co-publisher of The Walrus, went straight to readers with a direct plea for donations in a video recently posted on the mag’s website. Ambrose, also executive director of […]

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12 May

Readers’ letters: where is the free-speech line?

By John Hayden A year ago this February, I picked up a copy of the Cobourg Daily Star [since consolidated with two other papers to form Northumberland Today] and found […]

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11 May

Foglia et les phoques

Pierre Foglia consacre sa plus récente chronique à la chasse au phoque en soulevant la question : est-on devant la plus grande opération de marketing jamais égalée qui confond tout […]

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11 May

Freelance writers’ agency open for business

The Canadian Writers’ Group, an agency for freelance magazine writers, has launched with a group of 50 writers on board. The agency, run by former Toro editor-in-chief Derek Finkle, has […]

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11 May

Reporting from Afghanistan is getting tougher

Canadian journalists covering NATO activities in Afghanistan are being subjected to increased surveillance, including biometric scans and restrictions on independent travel to and from Kandahar airport. None of this helps […]

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11 May

CBC could be facing further cuts

CBC could be facing a cut of up to five per cent or $56 million from its parliamentary appropriation in the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the public broadcaster reports. The CBC […]

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11 May

Western Magazine Awards finalists announced

The finalists for the Western Magazine Awards (WMA) have been announced in preparation for the upcoming ceremony. Shelley Youngblut, editor-in-chief of Swerve will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Swerve is […]

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11 May

Inside the government’s message-making machine

ByDenise RudnickiNo reporter wants to be called a stenographer. There’s nothing about that label that appeals to the journalistic imagination, which prefers the image of political reporters as a motley […]

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