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9 Mar

Journaux au bord du gouffre

Pascal Lapointe, journaliste | La fermeture du Rocky Mountain News, un quotidien de Denver qui a raflé 4 prix Pulitzer en 10 ans, pourrait bien être le signe avant-coureur d’une […]

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9 Mar

Any good news out there?

This week’s Big Issue editor scoured J-Source for good news – and there was more than you’d think. It seems tough economic times get people thinking about what’s working right. […]

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9 Mar

Canwest sells New Republic

Canwest Global Communications Corp. announced it has sold The New Republic back to the editor it bought the magazine from two years ago, according to a Canadian Press report. The […]

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9 Mar

Learning on the job: social media workshops for journos

ByRoland LegrandFor the last few weeks, my colleague Raphael and I have been organizing a series of social media workshops for our fellow journalists at the Belgian business newspapers and […]

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9 Mar

Hand over Hearst’s legacy to us, says reporter

San Francisco Chronicle reporter Delfin Vigil has put his money where his job is: he’s taken out a substantial ad on page 9 of yesterday’s Chronicle, suggesting that if the […]

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9 Mar

The Globe’s Ingram on social media and changes in the newsroom

What exactly does The Globe and Mail‘s Mathew Ingram do in his new role as communities editor? University of British Columbia journalism professor Alfred Hermida recently spoke with Ingram about […]

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9 Mar

Don’t wanna pay reporters? Don’t pay professors instead

New York University professor Jonathan Zimmerman proposes an interesting solution for resource-challenged newspapers: get university professors to write for free. Zimmerman points out that a century ago, members of the […]

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8 Mar

Blogging the Barrier Reef

Linda Hoang may soon be blogging from the Great Barrier Reef. The 19-year-old journalism student from Grant MacEwan College is one of 50 candidates shortlisted for an “island caretaker” job […]

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8 Mar

Student rag resolves strike

Student journalists at the University of Oregon’s newspaper the Oregon Daily Emerald are expected to resume work on Monday after going on strike last week over editorial independence. The dispute […]

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8 Mar

Farewell to the tyranny of reporters

ByStephen Strauss When I give lectures about the future of journalism, recently I have been making reference to the weakening, if not the entire overthrow, of what I term The […]

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