Category Uncategorized
11 May

Doing a lot with a little: how a team of students broke a story wide open

By Fred Vallance-Jones One of the most gratifying parts of making the move to academic life is seeing the remarkable things that a group of young people can accomplish when […]

READ MORE
11 May

First “Maggie Awards” honour best of Manitoba’s mag industry

The first series of Manitoba Magazine Awards were handed out during the annual conference of the Manitoba Magazine Publishers’ Association. At a ceremony hosted by CBC’s Alex Freedman and Sean […]

READ MORE
11 May

Times-Colonist to cut Monday paper

Starting June 22, the CanWest-owned Victoria Times-Colonist will stop printing a Monday edition of the newspaper, the paper announced. A May 9 note in the paper and online stated: “The […]

READ MORE
9 May

Google introduces News Timeline

The ceaselessly clever innovators at Google Labs have launched a new application that could prove useful to anyone using current or recent news reports in their research. News Timeline marries the topic/phrase […]

READ MORE
9 May

Toxic legacy investigation

Toxic Legacy: The Story of Boat Harbour is an investigative project by journalism students at King’s College in Halifax. It describes the history of a pulp mill in Nova Scotia […]

READ MORE
8 May

These days, journalists have to be brand managers too

Branding, for the journalist, is about marketing yourself as a product so your name is readily identified with a specific type of service or writing style, writes Alison Gorham, in […]

READ MORE
8 May

CAJ offering reduced conference fees for unemployed journalists

The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) has announced it is offering unemployed journalists a discounted rate for its upcoming conference in Vancouver May 22 to 24. The discounted rate offered […]

READ MORE
8 May

Two more community newspapers cease publishing

“Like any good journalist, I won’t bury the news – this is the last edition of the Stillwater Courier or Lake Elmo Leader that you will receive.” Two more communities […]

READ MORE
8 May

2008 Michener Award finalists announced

Six finalists for the 2008 Michener Award for public service journalism have been announced. The finalists are: a joint entry from the CBC and The Canadian Press; Le Courrier de […]

READ MORE
8 May

The Newspaper Project

This recently launched site is dedicated to looking at the future of newspapers, but there is a notable twist. It is being led by a group of newspaper executives. “The […]

READ MORE