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18 Mar

Small town newspapers thriving, according to report

Columnist Joe Kimball says local papers are surviving economic meltdown within news industry. “Last week’s worrisome front-page New York Times story — “As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, […]

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18 Mar

48 employees from Hearst community newspaper chain take buyout

“Hearst Corp. says that 48 of its Connecticut newspaper employees are accepting buyouts as part of a move to cut costs by 20 percent.”

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17 Mar

St. Joseph Media implements 4-day summer work week

To combat the economic downturn St. Joseph Media has implemented a four-day work week for the months of July and August, which amounts to a 5% employee pay cut between […]

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17 Mar

Feeling guilty about teaching journalism?

Salon.com offers some advice to journalism professors who may be feeling guilty about teaching students skills to work in a dying industry. The advice from Cary Tennis: “I do not […]

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16 Mar

The new localism – who will deliver it?

Several community papers are on the ropes, including the Morinville and Jasper papers, prompting a Globe and Mail online poll: Is a local newspaper important? The question follows a recent […]

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16 Mar

“Rocky” reporters start own online journalism

“Former Rocky Mountain News staffers plan to start an online newspaper if they get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23 — what would have been the News’ 100th anniversary,” reported […]

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16 Mar

Bridging the divide: covering Sri Lanka one story at a time

ByLesley Ciarula Taylor The 60 or so people who turned out for the recent discussion of “Sri Lanka: Conflict and Coverage,” sponsored by the South Asian Journalists Association, PEN Canada […]

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16 Mar

CBC’s Maddren jumps to business world

Judy Maddren, best known as the host of World Report on CBC Radio, is leaving the public broadcaster after more than three decades at the microphone. A CBC report said […]

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16 Mar

Stop the presses: Seattle Post-Intelligencer goes online-only

The last edition of the news-“paper” Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be published Tuesday, the paper reported on its web site. Hearst Corp. announced that it would stop publishing the 146-year old […]

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16 Mar

Go long and go deep: teaching literary journalism

By Bill Reynolds One of the best ways I have found to teach the work of the writers who depend on Tom Wolfe’s four horsemen of the literary journalism apocalypse […]

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