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23 Oct

Journal Nature Explores Being Human

<p>The journal Nature launched a new intersdisciplinary essay series Oct. 23 to explore how scientific discovery is affecting our understanding of what it means to be human.  The lead <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7216/full/4551007b.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">editorial </a>notes how scientific discovery can be "fraught with difficulty".

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23 Oct

CBC-commisioned report says public broadcaster’s election coverage “fair and balanced”

CBC News commissioned a report on its election coverage this year and has made public the interim results of the research. According to Erin Research Inc., a firm that has […]

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23 Oct

Silver lining amid subscription cuts?

A study of the monthly expenses that families are willing to cut from their budgets during an economic slowdown suggests subscriptions to magazines and newspapers will be cut fourth in […]

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23 Oct

CJFE announces award recipients

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has announced the three recipients for its 2008 press freedom awards Sami al-Haj of Sudan and Shakeman Mugari of Zimbabwe will be honoured in […]

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23 Oct

La convergence au coeur des négos au Journal de Montréal

Francis Vailles, La Presse Affaires | Quebecor mise sur le contenu pour donner du muscle à son futur réseau sans fil. Or, le navire amiral de l’entreprise, le Journal de […]

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23 Oct

Le propriétaire de TQS exhorte à la patience

Paul Cauchon, Le Devoir | Souvent critiqué pour avoir refusé de parler aux médias, Maxime Rémillard s’est lancé dans une opération de charme en faisant le tour des journaux. […] […]

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22 Oct

Poll of news organizations

OK, this seems ridiculous: either nobody who works for CanWest reads J-Source, or if CanWest journalists do read J-Source not one of them considers their own news service tops. That […]

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22 Oct

Afghanistan and freedom of expression

“On the morning of Oct. 27, 2007, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh got the call that changed his life,” starts a Globe and Mail interview with the journalism student in Afghanistan whose […]

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22 Oct

Sorry Mr. McCain, but the media hates a loser

News coverage of the U.S. presidential election is noticeably more negative in tone toward Republican candidate John McCain compared to coverage of Democratic candidate Barack Obama, according to a study […]

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22 Oct

Bloggers don’t have Baghdad bureaus

“News and opinion mingle with alarming alacrity [online],” Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor at The New York Times, told the (U.S.) Association of National Advertisers’ annual conference, in a speech […]

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