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25 Aug

Two journalists injured in Afghanistan bombing

An explosion blew a military supply convoy off the road in Afghanistan on Sunday, injuring six soldiers and two Canadian journalists. The journalists – Tobi Cohen of the Canadian Press […]

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25 Aug

Deux journalistes occidentaux enlevés en Somalie

Reuters | Deux journalistes occidentaux travaillant en Somalie ont été enlevés par des hommes armés non loin de Mogadiscio, apprend-on auprès de témoins et de source proche des services de […]

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25 Aug

Marketing medicine: HPV’s “One Less” means so much more

Did your newsroom contribute stories to the war ensuring teenage girls in Canada could be “one less” statistic in the fight against cervical cancer? Not everybody was loving the big […]

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25 Aug

Mapping representations of data: The Atlas of Canada

<p>Remember your elementary school atlas? <a href="http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Atlas of Canada</a> offers an amazing array of maps that can graphically represent complex data in a manner that may be more readily digestible than text or charts.</p>

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23 Aug

Canadian reported kidnapped in Somalia

Two journalists, a Canadian woman and an Australian man, have reportedly been abducted in Somalia, the CBC says in a dispatch from Reuters. They are believed to have been confronted […]

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21 Aug

Last call for int’l TV freelancer award submissions

The Rory Peck Awards is an international competition that showcases the work of freelance cameramen and camerawomen in TV newsgathering and current affairs worldwide. There are three awards up for […]

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21 Aug

Why Blatchford won’t blog

Admits Christie Blatchford in a Globe and Mail column titled, I’m not blogging this, mark my words: “I have written some astonishingly banal columns in my life, and some very […]

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21 Aug

Vive la radio olympique!

Blogue de Pierre Cayouette, L’Actualité | Je ne ris jamais quand je vois des journalistes de la presse écrite s’amuser à relever les ratés de la couverture télévisée des Jeux […]

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21 Aug

Des journalistes en réseau pour contrer Digg et Google

Narvic, Novövision | Je surveille attentivement les développements du projet Publish2, de Scott Karp, qui ouvre des perspectives totalement nouvelles pour le journalisme en ligne : « le journalisme de […]

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20 Aug

News “grazers” becoming the norm

A majority of today’s news consumers (51%) are news “grazers” who “check in on news” whenever they want or stumble on news while online, rather than waiting for news to […]

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