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5 Feb

Shooting British messengers

What on earth are the British thinking these days, aiming their guns at their messengers? The Brits harassed five top financial journalists who appeared at a government hearing in London […]

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5 Feb

Sudan expells Canadian-Egyptian journalist

Canadian-Egyptian journalist Heba Aly was expelled by Sudan, where she had been reporting for the Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg and Irin, reported AFP. A Canadian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman spoke out […]

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5 Feb

Layoffs at Montreal radio station

A reorganization effort at French-language news radio station Info 690 will result in 12 layoffs, CBC reports. The company, a division of Corus Entertainment, said the Montreal station has been […]

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5 Feb

Interning at Brutal World Inc.

By Laura Stone “Man, I feel bad for your class. Not a good time to be graduating from j-school.” So began an email I received the other day from a […]

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5 Feb

Retired CBC broadcaster dies

After a battle with cancer, longtime host of CBC Radio news programs World Report and The World at Six, Russ Germain, died on Feb. 2, the CBC reports. Germain joined […]

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5 Feb

Why foundation ownership is a bad idea

Can’t get enough about how to fund newspapers in the 21st century? The latest to weigh in is Jack Shafer on Slate.com. His verdict: It’s a bad idea to divorce […]

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5 Feb

Online video stats: Is anyone actually working?

We know online video is popular, but the latest US numbers were startling nevertheless: US Internet users viewed 14.3 billion (yup, with a “b”) in December alone–averaging 96 (!) videos […]

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5 Feb

NY Times: Pay wall under (re)consideration?

Less than two years after pulling down the pay wall, NY Times executive editor Bill Keller has hinted that a consumer-pays model may reappear on the paper’s website, says a […]

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5 Feb

Quand journalisme et politique font ménage…

Lise Millette, ProjetJ En éthique, l’apparence de conflit d’intérêt peut devenir tout aussi lourde de conséquence que le conflit d’intérêt lui-même. Alors intervient la notion de censure ou le refus de […]

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5 Feb

Médias, crime et justice

Daniel Baril, Forum | S’il fallait s’en remettre uniquement à l’impression laissée par les médias pour évaluer si la criminalité violente est en baisse ou en hausse au Canada, il […]

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