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2 Oct

<i>Guelph Mercury</i> puts seminar lesson into action

Annual provincial budget reporting doesn’t generally inspire unconventional coverage styles, but Drew Edwards at the Guelph Mercury decided to try something a little different this year and it worked. Edwards […]

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26 Aug

Enhancing the moment?

Altering photographs is a quick and easy task these days. The combination of digital photography and user-friendly software makes it possible for virtually anyone to modify pictures. The NYC24.org article, […]

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13 Dec

Narrative journalism comes of age

Narrative journalism in newspapers is the sensitive subject taken on by Mark Kramer in this essay from Nieman Reports. Declining readership and the search for more “remedies to widespread current […]

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13 Dec

Bad financial news can be good news for journalism

Jack Shafer argues in a Slate.com column that recent bad financial news at newspapers does not have to mean bad news for journalism. Shafer calls for newspapers to drop their […]

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13 Dec

New study says newsroom investment pays off

Reuters journalist, Robert MacMillan reports that a recent U.S. study shows that newspapers executives who have invested more money in editorial have made more money in the long term. MacMillan […]

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13 Dec

Sensationalizing health coverage

A five-year research study at Simon Fraser University, published this spring in an academic journal, concludes that Canadian newspapers miss the “real stories” about health issues and “dwell on covering […]

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