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15 Jun

“Newspapers here to stay” : OECD report

A new study by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) says that, while Canada is one of the top-5 hardest hit newspaper industries in the industrialized world, the […]

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9 Jun

52% of bloggers consider themselves journalists: report

A new report by PRWeek/PR Newswire found that more than half of surveyed bloggers consider themselves journalsits. It also found that journalists are facing heavier workloads than ever before thanks […]

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7 Jun

CBC report on news balance

As part of its accountability mandate, CBC periodically analyzes its news content, published in an interim report called The News Balance Report. Findings include: 59% of CBC news anchors/programs are […]

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17 May

Net loss in Masthead magazine count

Masthead Online’s 2009 tally of magazine launches and closures has found a net loss of 20 titles – the first year in a decade with more stops than starts. Of […]

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3 May

ABCs for Canada

As the newspaper industry south of the border continues to struggle, Canadian dailies haven’t been hit as hard, according to circulation numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Circulation numbers […]

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28 Apr

2010 State of the News Media: lecture

Journalists are no longer managing the diet of news consumers, Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, said during Samara’s 2010 State of the News Media lecture. […]

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18 Mar

2009 NADbank results show readership is stable (and even growing)

The 2009 results of NADbank’s annual newspaper readership study have been released and according to the report, papers have “demonstrated their value to Canadians.” The overview of results shows that […]

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16 Mar

PR provides half the news published in Australian newspapers

About 55 per cent of the news published by Australian newspapers was fed to them by PR and marketing sources, according to a study of 10 newspapers conducted by local university students, the Australian news website […]

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15 Mar

State of the Media 2010: Journalism’s time is slipping away

The sand in the hourglass is slipping away for original journalism. That’s the sombre message at the core of this year’s State of the Media Report by the Pew Project […]

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4 Mar

Editorial quality control for print content only at many magazines

Many magazines exempt their own websites from the editorial standards applied to their traditional print product, reports a study of editorial practices at 665 magazines by the Columbia Journalism Review. […]

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