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3 Apr

Billionaire buys Tribune Co.

Property tycoon Sam Zell has purchased the Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Cubs, for $8.2 billion. Zell’s purchase of the company also includes several […]

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2 Apr

Canadian non-profit agency that trained foreign journalists folds

The Institute for Media Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS), a non-profit organization that most recently ran a controversial program to train women in journalism and the law in Afghanistan, has […]

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30 Mar

Billionaires eye Tribune Company

Two wealthy businessmen, Ronald W. Burkle and Eli Broad, have made a late bid for the Tribune Company, which counts the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune among its […]

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29 Mar

Afghan media’s hard-won rights threatened

After a five-year struggle tobuild up ademocratic society, Afghan mediaare starting to lose ground. New legislation expected to be debated in Parliament within weeks threatens to return power to the […]

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29 Mar

Magazine readership rankings released

Reader’s Digest is still the most widely read magazine in Canada, followed not so closely by Canadian Geographic, Canadian Living and Chatelaine (down two spots from last year). Media in […]

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28 Mar

Dying columnist’s recantation a fake

A controversial right-wing columnist in the U.S., a supposed death-bed conversion to the Democratic way and a disgruntled one-time journalism teacher are all part ofa bizarre story from Fox News.

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28 Mar

Deep Throat notes published online

Bob Woodward’s typewritten notes from his famous parking ramp meetings with Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) have been published online. The University of Texas at Austin purchased the notes along […]

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27 Mar

News readers more plugged in, study says

People who frequently consume news are more involved in civic activity, according to a study reported in the online edition of the Globe and Mail today. The study was based […]

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26 Mar

The end of LIFE as we know it

Time Inc. has decided to stop publication of LIFE magazine as a newspaper supplement, but still plans to launch a major Web portal tohouse its entire collection of 10 million […]

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24 Mar

Growth of free newspapers slows down

Free newspapers, the fastest growing segment in the newspaper industry, experienced readership declines last year for the first time. Readership of Toronto’s two major freebies, Metro and 24 Hours, fell […]

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