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21 Apr

Fund created to support national mag awards

The National Magazine Awards Foundation (NMAF) found itself struggling a bit with finances this year, as sponsorship was down during these tough economic times. To help out, a group of […]

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21 Apr

rabble.ca on newspaper woes

Asked a forum organized by rabble.ca, “What’s wrong with our newspapers?” Answers from Peter C. Newman, Linda McQuaig and Wayne MacPhail included, respectively, “boring,” “corporate ownership,” and “anti-union intentions.” “The […]

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21 Apr

More bloggers than bartenders

In the United States, reports the Wall Street Journal, more people now blog for a living than program computers, fight fires or tend bar; there are now nearly as many […]

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21 Apr

NYT massive loss

The New York Times Company reported a first-quarter loss of $74.5 million on Tuesday, compared with a loss of $335,000 in the period a year ago, as it joined the […]

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20 Apr

U.S. print journo jobs slashed at a record rate

U.S. newspapers hacked 5,900 jobs from their newsrooms last year, the largest round of print journalism job reductions since the American Society of News Editors started counting in 1978. The cuts, representing 11.3 per cent of the workforce, left about 46,700 journalists […]

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20 Apr

Local TV news: More hours, produced by fewer people for less pay

Local television stations provided more hours of weekday news last year despite cutting staff and reducing salaries, according to a study released at the annual Radio-Television News Directors Association convention. Member stations reduced staff […]

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20 Apr

Harper’s mysterious Jamaican news conference

“Why is PM Harper letting a pro-Israel think tank organize a press conference for him?” Twitters Canadianmags. The tweet links to David Akin’s blog post about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s […]

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20 Apr

Pulitzer peacockery

Slate‘s Jack Shafer thinks America’s Pulitzer Prizes — announced today — are mere “industry peacockery.” Shafer says Joseph Pulitzer was “one of the inventors of yellow journalism,” and today’s prizes […]

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20 Apr

Pulitzer prizes announced

The winners of the Pulitzer prizes were announced today. The New York Times has the most wins with five awards, while St. Petersburg Times comes in second with two. The Pulitzer site’s awards […]

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20 Apr

Author and longtime magazine editor dies

Former Saturday Night senior editor and author Barbara Moon died in hospital on April 15. Moon was a longtime editor and writer in Canada’s magazine community as well an author […]

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