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25 Mar

Haïti: La radio plus forte que la police

Pierre-André Normandin, Le Soleil (Québec) Les Cayes, Haïti – Les condamnations de violeurs sont de plus en plus fréquentes dans le sud d’Haïti. Ce n’est pas tant que les crimes […]

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25 Mar

Internship advice for aspiring magaziners

Masthead Online, a publication that serves the Canadian magazine industry, provides a guide to how to break into the magazine business via internship. What they are, how they work, what to […]

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25 Mar

Probe into Russian journo’s death to be reopened

AP – Russian authorities are reopening a probe into the unexplained death of investigative journalist and parliamentary deputy Yuri Shchekochikhin in 2003. Shchekochikhin died after a brief, mysterious ailment that caused him […]

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25 Mar

Sun writer dies two weeks shy of 29th birthday

John Kryk — SUN Media, March 24, 3008: “This is a horribly sad day for the Toronto Sun entertainment department. After a courageous, 11-month battle for her life, staff writer […]

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25 Mar

The need to be more provocative online

An interesting observation by Times Swampland blogger Michael Scherer: “Here is a basic shift that has occurred in the news business: Because of the Internet, you, the reader, no longer […]

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25 Mar

Editing in the digital age

“It is a news manager’s challenge to help reshape the culture, and one of those cultures is the layered editing that often improves and occasionally blandizes the reporter’s copy,” writes […]

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25 Mar

Anonymous sources under siege

While the National Post decides to appeal a recent decision that forces it to release a document to police, in another anonymous source case the courts ruled in favour of […]

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25 Mar

Carleton BJ drops French requirement

Starting next year, Carleton will no longer require journalism undergrads to have a French credit if they can demonstrate proficiency in a different second language, reports the Charlatan. Canada’s commissioner […]

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25 Mar

April 5, 2008 – Stories Under the Stars

Supersized stargazing, scintillating stories and scrumptious snacks — it’s all happening at the University of Toronto’s David Dunlap Observatory (DDO) on Saturday, April 5 at 8 p.m. The DDO is […]

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24 Mar

What if they held a war and nobody reported it?

Iraq coverage by major American news sources has dropped to about one-fifth of what it was last summer, says a New York Times story, which also notes, “the drop in […]

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