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31 Mar

La crise profite à la presse économique

Alors que le secteur de la presse générale continue de s’éroder, la presse économique reprend vie. C’est du moins le cas en France où l’intérêt pour les nouvelles économiques a […]

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31 Mar

Alliance : Transcon & Branchez-vous

La guerre du web est bel et bien commencée comme en témoigne une nouvelle alliance réalisée entre la plate-forme Internet de Transcontinental et le site de Branchez-vous. En vertu del’entente, […]

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31 Mar

Sun-Times failure could affect more than 80 community newspapers

The faltering of the Sun-Times Media Group has far-reaching implications for 83 smaller newspapers. The company owns community papers in the Metropolitan Chicago area and surrounding suburbs, as well as […]

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31 Mar

If online comments cost too much, shut them down

ByPeter Gorrie Newspapers emphasize free expression and respectful, constructive dialogue when asked why they invite comments about online stories. The opportunity to post also “engages” readers, they say. Which translates as: […]

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31 Mar

Getting behind political spin

By Jaime Watt & Dan Robertson Too often in politics, the relationship between those in public life and the journalists who cover them is one which is confrontational and tempestuous.  […]

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31 Mar

Sauver le journalisme?

Lise Millette, ProjetJ – 31 mars 2009 | Sur les ondes de CIBL à Montréal, l’émission Citoyen Numérique a tenu une table ronde sur les enjeux et défis du journalisme […]

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30 Mar

A case against non-profit community newspapers

“Nonprofit status would muffle or silence newspapers’ editorial voice and add in layers of regulatory control that we cannot begin to predict, going in.”

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30 Mar

Record profit for European newspaper Bild

“As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in […]

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30 Mar

Alt-obscenity

Here’s a lede you’ll see only in alt-media: “Shane McConkey was one crazy motherfucker.”Will that kind of a lead consign the outlet that runs it (in this case, by the […]

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30 Mar

Lose the jargon, academics told

“Academic jargon that obscures meaning must be replaced by crisp, understandable conclusions,” said an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The essay, written by CMAJ section editor Noni MacDonald […]

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