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28 Feb

Book Review: “Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts, Context, and Critical Frameworks”

<p> </p><p><strong>Review by Gennadiy Chernov </strong></p>

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26 Jan

Book Review: “About Canada: Media”

<p><em>What’s the number one issue facing Canadian media? According to Peter Steven, it’s diversity. Steven, a professor of media studies at Sheridan College in Ontario, has written a guide to Canadian media for Fernwood Publishing’s pocketbook series </em>About Canada<em>. <strong>Marc Edge</strong> reviews it for J-Source.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>Review: "About Canada: Media"</strong></p>

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19 Jan

Book Review: Feeling Canadian by Marusya Bociurkiw

<p> </p><p>Review by Kayley Viteo and Nadine Desrochers</p><p><strong><em>Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism and Affect</em> by Marusya Bociurkiw</strong></p><p> </p>

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13 Oct

Crime reporting in the age of victim’s rights: interview with Carrie Rentschler

<p>In <strong>Second Wounds</strong>, media scholar Carrie Rentschler traces the emergence of victim advocacy in the U.S. from the sixties until the present.  Rentschler also explores the relationship the victim’s rights movement and the media, describing how U.S.

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27 Jul

Book review: The New Journalist

<p><em><strong>Mark Kearney</strong> takes a look at </em>The New Journalist <em>-- and discovers a resource that was designed for longevity in the fast-changing journo world.</em></p><p>Calling any book these days <em>The New Journalist </em>takes guts.</p>

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21 Jun

Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter’s Research Guide, second edition

After a year of teaching with the text, J-Source asked two j-school profs what they thought of Robert Cribb, Dean Jobb, David McKie, Fred Vallance-Jones’ second edition of Digging Deeper: […]

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12 May

Review: The End of Iceland’s Innocence

In the opening pages of The End of Iceland’s Innocence, author Daniel Chartier accuses media of sensationalizing the facts to “create an ethos” with readers, and, as a result, of […]

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10 May

When even narrow objectives fall short

A  few months ago, Christie Blatchford released Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us. The best work in the book, writes reviewer […]

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1 Mar

Reporting for the Media, Canadian edition

Reporting for the Media, Canadian Edition is the first ever Canadian edition of a American text that was developed nearly 35 years ago. Joy Crysdale reviews a traditional text’s approach […]

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23 Feb

Finding the words

What do words reveal? How do you describe the pain — the sheer anxiety — of getting those words from brain to paper to the streets? What do you do […]

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