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26 Feb

Harper et les femmes

Sur son blogue, Chantal Hébert revient sur la visite de Barack Obama au Canada et en profite pour se demander si le premier ministre Stephen Harper est allergique à Céline […]

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25 Feb

Small college media have feelings too

This excellent post on the PBS blog “MediaShift”, comes from Bryan Murley, an assistant professor of new and emerging media at Eastern Illinois University. He lists five challenges facing smaller […]

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25 Feb

Networking in real time

The economy is down, jobs are scarce and hope for that internship you wanted is slowly fading because a) they might be cutting back and b) they also might not […]

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25 Feb

Search term trends reflect economic worries

Internet searches using terms like “unemployment benefits”, “bankruptcy” and “foreclosure” have leaped dramatically in frequency during the past year, according to an analysis by comScore Inc. Call it a digital sign of […]

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25 Feb

Context needed

“Democracy needs dialogue more than it needs bumper stickers,” writes Stephen L. Carter, a novelist and Yale law professor, in a persuasive essay arguing for more context — more thoroughness […]

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25 Feb

Teaching j-students about Twitter

Suddenly, it seems, everyone is twittering. Or,  if they’re not, they feel they should be. Journalists who first dismissed it as a useless time waster are now seeing it as a […]

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25 Feb

CBC funding crisis

[Note: This post has been updated] “The CBC is heading toward a new fiscal year with little clarity about its funding from Ottawa, even as it suffers a projected 2008-2009 […]

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24 Feb

Autopsie d’un scoop selon Fagstein

Steve Faguy définit en quatre points, et de manière satirique, ce qu’est un scoop : – Une histoire que personne d’autre ne possède– Un sujet alimenté par des sources anonymes impliquant […]

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24 Feb

Source : garder le secret jusqu’en prison

Marc-François Bernier | Quand un journaliste promet l’anonymat à une source d’information, il s’engage à respecter sa parole jusqu’à la prison s’il le faut.  Daniel Leblanc, du quotidien Globe and […]

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24 Feb

Sports : journalistes sous influence?

La pratique du journalisme sportif, balisée par une étroite proximité avec les joueurs, permet-elle encore une distanciation nécessaire? Pas toujours, selon Steeve Lapointe, journaliste à Corus. Il soutient que les […]

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