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4 May

New journalism ethics site launched

The University of Ottawa journalism ethics research chair, Marc-François Bernier, has launched a professional website (in French). The site will link to scientific publications, research results as well as other publications of […]

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4 May

2008 AJA winners announced

The Atlantic Journalism Awards were handed out at a gala in Moncton on May 2. The 2008 ceremony marked the 28th year for the AJAs. The Jim MacNeill New Journalist […]

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4 May

Of lipstick on pigs

Should journalists participate in the rebranding of swine flu? “It is not a ‘swine’ flu, and people need to stop calling it that,” Dave Warner of the National Pork Producers […]

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3 May

American Community Newspapers Inc. files for bankruptcy

“American Community Newspapers (ACN) — publisher of the Stillwater (Minn.) Gazette and Plano (Texas) Star Courier plus dozens of non-dailies in four states — said late Tuesday it had filed […]

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3 May

Alan Rusbridger on open-source journalism, and other reasons to be cheerful about the future of news

“The way to think about the problems facing the news industry is to think about future of journalism and not to obsess about business models, Alan Rusbridger told an audience […]

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3 May

Will the small paper survive?

“Our colleagues at The Wall Street Journal tell us that small, community newspapers are proving to be the little engine that could of the media industry. As larger, metropolitan papers […]

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3 May

Alan Rusbridger on the future of news

“Alan Rusbridger is the editor-in-chief of The Guardian, easily one of the most prestigious newspapers in the English-speaking world, and is widely admired as a journalist’s journalist. At the same […]

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3 May

Internet versus dead trees: a discussion

“The question at hand actually was about the rise of the “commentary” class in America and how it has overshadowed the “journalist” class, and how that shapes the country. But […]

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3 May

An experiment in web design

“MSNBC.com has quietly launched an experiment that re-engineers how Web stories are consumed. Here’s Craig Saila, an interactive designer at MSNBC.com, describing the changes:”

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2 May

Kick-starting investigative journalism

Seymour Hersh was a young and little-known journalist when he approached the newly-created Fund for Investigative Journalism in 1969 for help. He wanted assistance to investigate reports of a civilian massacre […]

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