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28 May

Kidnapped journalist could be released soon

(AP) Kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston is alive and well and could be released “very, very soon,” a Palestinian government spokesman said Saturday. Johnston was kidnapped March 12 in Gaza […]

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27 May

CAJ award winners announced

The winners of this year’s Canadian Association of Journalism awards were announced at a gala event on Saturday, May 26th. The winners of the top award, the Don McGillivray Award […]

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26 May

New media centre receives $552K grant

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is receiving a three-year, $552,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to establish […]

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23 May

Nieman Fellowships announced

James Baxter from the Edmonton Journal has been awarded Harvard’s Martin Wise Goodman Nieman Fellowship. He will study the legal, economic and foreign policy questions arising from increased international focus on […]

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23 May

MIT among news challenge winners

MIT has been awarded $5 million by the Knight Foundation to create a centre focused on high-tech community news. That project earned the largest single award in a $25-million world-wide “news […]

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23 May

Ethiopia frees detained journalists

Three New York Times journalists, including Nairobi bureau chief Jeffrey Gettleman, have been freed after five days of detention in Ethiopia, the Times reports. The three, who were in Ethiopia […]

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22 May

CAJ raps Vancouver police impersonation of reporter

The Canadian Association of Journalists strongly condemns the Vancouver police’s actions on Saturday, May 19, when an officer impersonated a journalist to lure a suspect into a public place to […]

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22 May

Dow bid may be abandoned

Rupert Murdoch may be rethinking his bid to take over control of Dow Jones, investment analysts say. Bloomberg News reports via Boston.com that Murdoch is growing frustrated at a lack of […]

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18 May

Cerberus courting Shaw and Can-West to help buy BCE

The Globe and Mail is reporting that Cerberus Capital Management is in talks with Shaw Communications Inc. and CanWest Global Communications Corp. to form a buying group to purchase BCE […]

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18 May

Two more journalists killed in Iraq

(AP) Two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News in Baghdad were ambushed and killed as they drove home from work, the television network announced Friday.

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