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28 Jan

Holding court on the web

FeatureAnyone with Internet access could watch live video of the Ontario Court of Appeal hearing that exonerated Steven Truscott of a 1950s murder. Despite that initiative – not to mention a […]

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28 Jan

Globe’s Ingram reflects on liveblogging “experiments”

Nearly three months after Mathew Ingram took on his new role as communities editor at The Globe and Mail, he and the online team have been “experimenting” with liveblogs. Most […]

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28 Jan

Canwest imposes further cost-saving measures

In an memo emailed to all staff, Canwest executives Dennis Skulsky and Doug Lamb announced a series of cost-cutting measures the company is instituting in order to further combat economic […]

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28 Jan

Endowing newspapers

If Thomas Jefferson was right that a well-informed citizenry is the foundation of our democracy, then newspapers must be saved, write two financially savvy thinkers at Yale. “Although the problems […]

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28 Jan

Iraqi journalist’s land entitlement

Demands for land in Iraq for “journalist citizens” are just bizarre.Reports the New York Times: “At a recent meeting with the Iraqi journalists’ union, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki made […]

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27 Jan

Les médias vivent une crise financière… parallèle

Lise Millette, ProjetJ | La crise financière, qui semble avoir le dos bien large, évolue de manière parallèle depuis déjà quelques années dans le monde médiatique. En fait, les entreprises de presse […]

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27 Jan

Politique tout est politique : boycottage gouvernemental

À l’Assemblée nationale, bien qu’il ne s’agisse pas d’un mot d’ordre général, une consigne non-écrite veut que dans la mesure du possible, aucune entrevue individuelle ne soit accordée aux journalistes […]

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27 Jan

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27 Jan

Lobjectivité journalistique sous influence

Pascale Renaud-Hébert, Université du Québec à Montréal Jusqu’où l’appartenance à un groupe de presse influence-t-elle un journaliste dans ses choix? Dans le brouhaha du lancement du disque de la nouvelle […]

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27 Jan

France launches aid program for newspapers

The French government will spend several hundred million dollars a year to help France’s newspaper industry cope with declining ad revenue. Measures include tax breaks, increased government advertising and subsidizing free subscriptions for […]

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