Archive
28 Feb

The politics of covering Pickton

Regan Ray at RRJ.ca examines how the international media have covered the Pickton trial thus far, and how these decisions have been influenced by audience reaction.

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19 Feb

U.S. judges using Wikipedia in rulings

New York Times reporter Noam Cohen uncovers that American judges are using Wikipedia in their judicial rulings. The accuracy of Wikipedia, an online dictionary that can be edited and written […]

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10 Jan

Public Policy Forum reports on Canadian media

In June 2005 former journalist Dan Turner spent two weeks interviewing 12 journalists, two senior public servants and one professor of journalism about the state of the media in Canada. […]

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30 Nov

Cheating culture

Ryerson University journalism professor Ivor Shapiro reviews, for the Canadian Journal of Communication, four books about recent scandals at newspapers and magazines: The Fabulist: A Novel by Stephen Glass, Burning […]

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20 Oct

“On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change”

This 21-page report by Geneva Overholser, published by the Annenberg Public Policy Centerat the University of Pennsylvania, summarizes the challenges journalists face today and suggests various Action Steps to overcome […]

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2 Oct

Report Card on Canadian News Media

What do Canadians really think about the media? In 2003, a research team interviewed more than 3,000 people to try and answer that question.The Canadian Media Research Consortium, a collaboration […]

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