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26 Jun

What Canadian media is missing about climate change

<p><em>The following discussion is about a presentation on newspaper coverage of climate change. The presentation was held at Congress, Canada's national humanities and social sciences conference. </em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By April van Ert for <a href="http://news.ubc.ca/2013/06/06/what-canadian-media-are-missing-about-climate-change/">UBC ArtsWIRE</a></strong></p><p>Are national newspapers giving Canadians the information they need to make informed decisions about climate change?</p>

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19 Apr

7 interesting facts from the Newspaper Canada 2012 Circulation Data Report

<p><strong style="font-size: 10px;">By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>Newspapers Canada released its <a href="http://www.newspaperscanada.ca/news/research/newspapers-canada-releases-2012-circulation-data-report-daily-newspapers">2012 circulation data</a> report Thursday with statistics on French and English dailies. Here are 7 interesting facts from the report:</p><p><strong>How many daily newspapers are there in Canada?</strong></p><p>There are 95 English and French paid dailies in Canada and 29 free dailies. That’s a grand total of 124 daily newspapers.</p>

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19 Apr

Best practices for community newsrooms

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson</strong></p>

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18 Mar

Journalism cutbacks are driving audiences away: Pew State of Media report

<p>As media outlets get more desperate for advertising dollars, news stories shrink and consumers are tuning away, a <a href="http://stateofthemedia.org/2013/overview-5/press-alert/">new study</a> released Monday found.</p>

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13 Nov

Journalism, disrupted

<p><em>If journalists can’t make the business case for journalism, then who will? <strong>Belinda Alzner</strong> talks with Canadian Nieman Fellow David Skok about his research on disruption and innovation in journalism with Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen that gives journalists and news managers a new way to look at the challenges facing the industry.</em></p><p> </p>

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7 Nov

Canadian journalists, BlackBerrys and the crisis in political reporting: an interview with Christopher Waddell

<p><strong>How Canadians Communicate IV: Media and Politics</strong>, edited by David Taras and Christopher Waddell, assembles essays focused on the various forms of political communication in Canada.  Though the collection gives weight to how politics is communicated through film, art, music, and even museums, over half of the chapters are concerned with politics and the news media. J-Source editor Lisa Lynch interviewed Christopher Waddell about the book’s conclusions about the state of political reporting in Canada. </p>

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2 Oct

Social media editors in Canadian newsrooms describe integration, unique challenges

<p> </p><p><em>What is the role of a social media editor inside a news organization? New research by University of King’s College online journalism professor <strong>Tim Currie</strong> sheds some light on the level of integration that social media editors have in their respective newsrooms, the unique challenges that face them and how they position themselves with their audiences.</em></p><p><strong>By Tim Currie</strong></p>

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9 Jul

New peer-reviewed journals offer venues for journalism discussion and research

<p>Three new international peer-reviewed journals will offer journalism scholars and researchers new venues to publish their work and move discussion and exploration surrounding topics of digital journalism, journalism education, and interdisciplinary studies in communication forward.</p>

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29 Feb

Journalism on homelessness: Expert driven

<p><em>Canadian study investigates sourcing practices and framing of homelessness in the news. <strong>Elyse Amend </strong>and<strong> David Secko</strong><em> </em>write about the study which considers the power of expert quotes in three Canadian newspapers to frame homelessness.</em><br /> </p><p>Homelessness, as a word, is not that old. A <a href="http://jou.sagepub.com/content/13/1/71.abstract">recent study</a> on the sources journalists chose in writing about homelessness suggests Canadian journalism on the topic is still young as well. </p>

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6 Jan

The ‘replaceability’ of journalists

<p><em>An Israeli daily newspaper tried a radical experiment - it replaced journalists with literary writers for some editions of its paper. <strong>David Secko and Elyse Amend</strong> write about the study that followed this experiment to see if other types of writers could handle daily deadlines, chasing truth, and working sources for information the way that journalists do.</em></p><p> </p>

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