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16 Jun

AP drafting guidelines for bloggers

The Associated Press is trying “to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s copyright,” […]

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16 Jun

News boycott

Journalists in Gaza staged a boycott of news about Israelis in Gaza on June 16. The reason was sound: journalists want to hold Israel to account for its apparent slaughter […]

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15 Jun

Copyright storm

Writers’ unions are among the few contrary voices in a storm of protest over Canada’s proposed new copyright legislation. “Everyone says it is complicated — but the anti-copyright community hasn’t […]

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13 Jun

Study looks at how online Canadians get news

The average Internet-connected Canadian spends about 2.3 hours a day consuming news and information from a variety of sources, including television and newspapers, according to a new study by the […]

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13 Jun

News axed at Montreal radio station

Montreal radio station 940 AM will lay off 18 employees and switch to an oldies/greatest hits format from an news-talk format, reports CBC, because “owner Corus Entertainment announced the station’s […]

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13 Jun

Tim Russert dead at 58

American journalist Tim Russert has died at age 58. The Washington anchor of the U.S. NBC network and host of “Meet the Press” was “a towering figure in American journalism,” […]

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13 Jun

Sexist or fair coverage?

Coverage of Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid has renewed debate in the U.S. about how journalists deal with women. A piece in the New York Times looks at the issue, and […]

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13 Jun

Anonymous sources “add little,” says researcher

ByDenise Rudnicki When I was a young journalist working for CBC news, I was told I could not use information from an unnamed source unless I could corroborate it with […]

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13 Jun

FOCUS ON FINDINGS: Filling journalism’s R&D gap

This week marks the relaunch of J-Source’s Findings section under Thompson Rivers University’s Alan Bass, a former reporter for the Canadian Press and the London Free Press. Bass takes over from Bill Reynolds, […]

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13 Jun

Droit d’auteur: des enjeux pour les journalistes

Colette Brin, ProjetJ | Les modifications proposées à la loi du droit d’auteur, un document passablement complexe comme on peut l’imaginer, soulèvent déjà des réactions variées parmi les acteurs concernés. […]

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