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10 Jul

Job cuts hurt diversity, black journalists say

The organization representing Black journalists in the U.S. has lashed out at media companies, saying that job cuts caused by declining readership and viewership have jeopardized the push for diversity in […]

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9 Jul

Murdoch-Fox/NY Times

A Globe and Mail piece by Sinclair Stewart summarizes the kerfuffle involving Fox News vs the New York Times, which has been making American media news lately. The focus is […]

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9 Jul

Indépendance des médias : le PS veut une enquête

NOUVELOBS Les sénateurs PS réclament une commission d’enquête parlementaire sur “l’indépendance des médias”, notamment sur les “liens” entre politiques et patrons de presse.   Les sénateurs PS ont réclamé mercredi […]

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9 Jul

China’s broken promise: PEN’s report

A one-year report card from PEN (the pdf is here) noted that seven months ago, the freedom of expression group called on the Chinese government to: • release all writers […]

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9 Jul

Des médias au plus près des villes et des quartiers

Charlotte Richard, Le Monde | Les médias “hyper locaux” s’attachent à l’information qui n’intéresse pas les médias traditionnels. Ils couvrent l’actualité d’une ville, voire d’un quartier. Leur credo : la […]

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9 Jul

Wikileaks: Saving journalism?

The title of a Wired piece revealed the ambition of Wikileaks, the document-leaking site: “Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism … and the World” Said Editor’s Weblog: […]

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9 Jul

Newspaper bankruptcies are coming, says Ibbitson

Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson predicts the demise of newspapers in the coming years, in his column “Extra, extra, read all about it – or, sadly, not.”  Ibbitson looks […]

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8 Jul

Canwest names new vp of digital media

Canwest has appointed Kenneth Maclean as vice-president of digital media for its eastern region, the Montreal Gazette reported today. Maclean left his position as vice-president of interactive media services at […]

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8 Jul

Une journaliste de CBC devient candidate du NPD

Violaine Ballivy, La Presse | Pour la troisième fois en un peu plus d’un an, Radio-Canada perd un journaliste au profit d’un parti politique. Le chef du NPD, Jack Layton, […]

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8 Jul

Words of solace

I expect  journalists have always felt like ink-stained wretches at times — and especially now, with the Internet having devoured not only tens of thousands of our jobs, our hopes […]

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