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21 Feb

Must the revolution be televised to succeed?

Interesting article from Al-Jazeera on the role the media played in the success of revolt in Egypt — and how the world maybe forgot Egypt is part of Africa and […]

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18 Feb

“The CBC lies all the time”: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney

A Canadian Press story about International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda’s document doctoring has revealed an interesting comment about Canada’s public broadcaster from another conservative minister. A Canadian Press reporter asked […]

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18 Feb

Can photojournalism be done on an iPhone?

Photo of soliders in Afghanistan by New York Times photojournalist Damon WinterIf a photojournalist ditches his camera in favour of his iPhone, are the pictures he takes still journalism? What […]

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17 Feb

Vancouver Canucks deny media access to players

Sports journalist Cam Cole rips on the Vancouver Canucks’ management for denying access to reporters in an article for The Vancouver Sun. “Even though media outlets pay tens of thousands […]

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16 Feb

The vaccine-autism controversy: An investigative journalist on dismantling a scam

UK investigative journalist Brian Deer deconstructed the process of debunking a controversial medical journal paper that — more than a decade later — is still causing harm. Deer was in […]

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15 Feb

London news is falling down

Local TV news is losing airtime to out-of-town executives who decide which stations stay and which go. How far will it go? One station in London, Ontario has lost $98 […]

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15 Feb

Opinion roundup: Murdoch’s The Daily

Now that the initial hype from The Daily‘s launch last week has begun to die down, J-Source rounds up opinions, criticisms and first impressions from across the web. The Nieman […]

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15 Feb

Why Is The Tyee in the Vancouver Art Gallery?

Fiesty British Columbia online publication The Tyee was selected to be part of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s ‘WE: Vancouver’ exhibit. Tyee editor David Beers reports. The Tyee is pleased to […]

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14 Feb

Akin to Levant: media didn’t miss the story in Cairo

Blogger Ezra Levant thinks that mainstream media was too busy navel-gazing to pay attention to more important stories coming out of Cairo. “As always, this revolution was about them — […]

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14 Feb

Slate’s Jacob Weisberg slams The Daily

<p><a href="http://www.slate.com/authors.jacob_weisberg.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-style: italic;">Slate </span>chairman Jacob Weisberg</a> slammed Rupert Murdoch's new i-Pad-only newspaper <span style="font-style: italic;">The Daily</span> in a lecture to j-students.<br />

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