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20 Apr

Access to Information blind to geography: be persistent

QUESTION: As it turns out I am following up on a story that I wrote after the last federal election. Now that expenses from the election have been filed with […]

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20 Apr

News blackouts quite common

ByMelissa Wilson “News organizations aren’t in the business of keeping secrets,” insists David Aeikens, president of the Society of Professional Journalists and full-time reporter for Minnesota’s St. Cloud Times, on […]

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20 Apr

J-profs and j-students rate each other

A very public disagreement between two Carleton journalism professors about journalism students played itself out on the opinion pages of the Ottawa Citizen this past week. It all began with […]

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20 Apr

“Today the goals are different”: the media’s lost generation?

“The media business has always been a deeply competitive bastion of ambition; yet today’s journalists—including both those sidelined by layoffs and those still clinging desperately their workplace desks—have been left […]

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20 Apr

National Press Club gets donation for scholarships

The National Press Club of Canada Foundation scholarships program has been given new life thanks to a recent donation. The Makhzoumi Foundation of Lebanon contributed $30,000 to the NPCCF programs, […]

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20 Apr

National forum launched on covering violence and trauma

By Cliff Lonsdale Climate change is real, but its increments can be small – and may become smaller still in tough economic times.   The climate in question is the […]

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20 Apr

Freelancers’ Long March

Freelancers have won the right to be heard before the Quebec Superior Court in their ongoing battle for compensation for republishing articles online. It’s been 12 years since the Electronic […]

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19 Apr

Summary of the state of journalism online in India

“ The narrative in the news business in India couldn’t be more different. Only 60% of the Indian population is literate, about half of the literate population reads newspapers, and […]

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19 Apr

Rosen on the future of journalism

A solid synopsis of a speech given by New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen on the future of journalism. “In his talk he focused on the “crisis of the […]

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19 Apr

More on Steve Brill’s journalism adventure

Here are a few more articles about the Journalism Online venture. Steve Brill to save journalism The UK Guardian

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