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12 Mar

Columbia j-school’s existential crisis

Columbia University’s School of Journalism appears to be facing the same internal conflict about how, or even whether, to change its curricula to teach new media skills as so many […]

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11 Mar

Le journalisme citoyen : quand la démocratie réagit

Vincent Destouches, étudiant en journalisme, Université Concordia | Le journaliste est un « agent » du public, du moins originellement. Il est censé représenter le peuple, aller chercher et découvrir […]

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11 Mar

Les journaux doivent payer pour leurs déchets

Lise Millette, ProjetJ | Les municipalités se penchent sur les moyens de réduire leurs dépenses et de s’attaquer au défi de la collecte sélective. La Fédération des municipalités du Québec […]

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11 Mar

Aspers and CanWest get reprieve

Canwest Global Communications Corp. won a reprieve on some of its debt problems until April 7. The company will use the time “to negotiate borrowing terms on its debt with […]

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11 Mar

Re-imagining journalism

The online magazine The Tyee is running a series on journalism by Steve Anderson, co-ordinator of Canadians for Democratic Media and the Stop the Big Media Takeover campaign. Anderson’s first […]

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11 Mar

Quebecor leaves CP

The Canadian Press, already embroiled in restructuring, took a major blow from Quebecor Inc., which announced it will pull out of the news co-operative in mid 2010 to cut costs, […]

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11 Mar

Photojournalist Tom Hanson dead at 41

Canadian Press reported that award-winning CP photojournalist Tom Hanson, “a fierce champion of journalistic rights whose sometimes brusque manner belied a devoted husband with a gentle soul,” has died suddenly […]

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11 Mar

Media Cloud: Automated media research tool open for testing

Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society is beta testing an open-source, automated online media research tool called Media Cloud. According to the Center, Media Cloud software can already code […]

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11 Mar

Longtime CBC reporter interviewed on The Hour

“You always hear people say, ‘I remember where I was when Kennedy was shot.’ ‘I remember where I was when the space shuttle challenger blew up.’ Those moments stay with […]

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11 Mar

Censorship: Alberta to create movie czar

CBC reports on Alberta’s new censorship law, Bill 19, “New Alberta film bill creates movie czar, inspectors.” Cinema owners and movie distributors in Alberta are upset, said CBC, because the […]

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