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6 Apr

WINNERS ANNOUNCED: A J-Source prize giveaway

[UPDATE] And the winners are: Thanks to everyone who commented on J-Source about their favourite documentary films. Juan Gomez, who suggested Bukowski: Born Into This, is the winner of 2 […]

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6 Apr

Radically different journalism online

“These days, everywhere you look it seems that some newspaper is closing its doors, stopping its presses, or maybe just going online-only. This sea change is being heralded by some […]

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6 Apr

The future of “quality journalism”

While news organizations are struggling in the face of the recession, little is being done to discuss issues around the quality of journalism being practiced on the front lines. Journalism […]

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6 Apr

How major news aggregators hurt the news industry

“As the financially battered newspaper industry considers various schemes for charging for its digital content (see Prime Time, February/March), some look back ruefully on what news industry blogger Alan Mutter […]

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6 Apr

Ten experts on the future of the print newspaper

Presstime, the Newspaper Association of America’s flagship publication, gathered ten experts from inside and outside the newspaper business to discuss their ideas for reinventing the print newspaper. Participants include former […]

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6 Apr

Vancouver police seize journalist’s camera

Vancouver police roughed up a photographer with the Province newspaper and briefly confiscated his camera on the weekend. Jason Payne had been photographing the police take-down — and non-fatal shooting […]

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6 Apr

Robert Fulford’s ode to the Internet

“Like nearly everyone else, newspaper columnists have had their lives altered by the Internet,” writes the National Post‘s Robert Fulford in a recent column. Fulford writes about the comment threads […]

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5 Apr

Saving journalism and its business model

A column in the New York Times about the future of journalism and developing a sustainable model by columnist Nicholas D. Kristof.

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5 Apr

United Kingdom studying future of local and regional media

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British parliament is undertaking public consultations on community news outlets. In particular is want to study: The impact of newspaper closures on […]

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4 Apr

CBC aims to be “content company”

Insightful post to Reportr.net deconstructing recent comments by CBC President Hubert Lacroix about the future of CBC online.

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