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31 Jan

Cruickshank, Wente and Beers discuss media’s coverage of police funeral

Last Friday’s episode of CBC’s Q with Jiam Ghomeshi featured a media panel with Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank, Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente and Tyee.ca editor David Beers, […]

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31 Jan

Rosie DiManno thinks courts should ban live reporting

Rosie DiManno doesn’t think laptops, cellphones or BlackBerrys should be allowed in courtrooms, because reporters should be more than stenographers, she says. In her Toronto Star column, DiManno writes, “I’m […]

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28 Jan

Living with the tragedy in Tucson

Here’s a fascinating story about how a friend of the accused Tucson shooter was treated by the media. She’s just a high-school student who, it seems, became a commodity for […]

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27 Jan

New documentary about New York Times

The Toronto Star‘s movie critic reviews a new documentary about the Gray Lady, Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times, and says it’s not the “gloomy obit” you’d […]

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26 Jan

Journalist crowdsources his news column pitch

Canadian journalist Bill Dunphy is applying for a job as a newspaper news columnist — and he wants your help getting the gig. In a tweet, Dunphy wrote: “What’s a […]

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25 Jan

Must bloggers follow the rules?

Mike Elk was fired as a labor blogger for the Huffington Post because he took part in a labor disruption. The guy who fired him was earning a reported $300,000 […]

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25 Jan

Why the media doesn’t cover suicide (and why it should)

I contemplated killing myself five years ago. Now, to help others, I call on all journalists to break the silence on our final taboo. This week, we feature Liam Casey‘s […]

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24 Jan

How to stop misspelling names

Mallary Jean Tenore is a frequent victim of journalism’s sixth most prevalent mistake: misspelled names. In an article for Poynter, she explains why journalists get names wrong, and how to […]

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24 Jan

Why Canada needs more media analysis education

<p>We should be teaching our children how to understand news spin and "infortainment", writes Geoff Johnson in an article for <a href="http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=c34b5b39-c1ce-4aeb-8896-66cea19d5eb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Victoria Times Colonist</span></a>. Media analysis courses should be added to high school social studies lessons, giving kids the "opportunity to watch and discuss the same news story as reported from several different points of view, even from U.S. and Canadian perspectives," he writes.<br />

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20 Jan

8 journalism trends for 2011 from Nieman Lab’s Joshua Benton

Nieman Journalism Lab founding director Joshua Benton was in Toronto to discuss the future of journalism at a forum hosted by The Canadian Journalism Foundation on Tuesday. He had plenty […]

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