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29 Jan

More on endowments: $2 billion oughta do it

What would it take to endow a “very healthy newsroom”? Steve Coll, writing in the online edition of The New Yorker, calculates that The Washington Post could run on the […]

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28 Jan

Media ban requested in swastika custody case

Officials with a Manitoba government agency asked a provincial court to ban media from attending any part of the custody case involving a seven-year-old Winnipeg girl sent to school bearing […]

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28 Jan

Doute sur l’impérialisme de Quebecor

Le journaliste Steve Proulx fait dans la sémantique et allègue que la désignation de Quebecor comme un «empire» fait fausse route. Lire la suite.

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28 Jan

Les intérêts de Red Bull ou ceux des citoyens?

Roger Bertrand et Michèle Leduc | La couverture médiatique intensive et manifestement sympathique, voire complaisante sur le Red Bull Crashed Ice, poserait-elle un problème d’éthique sur le plan journalistique ?

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28 Jan

Boycott gouvernemental : la FPJQ s’inquiète

La décision de certains élus de l’Assemblée nationale de refuser d’accorder des entrevues individuelles aux journalistes du Journal de Montréal durant le lock-out, inquiète la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du […]

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28 Jan

Toronto Star reporter dies

Toronto Star police reporter John Duncanson died in his sleep earlier this week, at the age of 43. Duncanson left the Star in 2007 to seek treatment for alchoholism. He […]

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28 Jan

Les hebdos : assurément pertinents

Lise Millette, Équipe ProjetJ | Un sondage Léger Marketing soutient que 70 % des Québécois considèrent que l’information contenue dans leur journal hebdomadaire local offre une information de qualité et […]

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28 Jan

Web access to court files expanding

FeatureThe age of Internet access to court records has dawned in Canada. British Columbia is leading the way with online access to some 200,000 court documents and more to come, […]

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28 Jan

New York Times crisis deepens

If the New York Times can’t hold its own, who and what can? The New York Times Co. reported a sharp drop in fourth-quarter 2008 operating profit. December advertising revenues […]

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28 Jan

Budget help for some publications

Canada’s “community press” got a boost in the federal budget, and the two national newspaper associations are pleased. The budget included $30 million over two years for community newspapers and […]

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