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27 Aug

J-School offers no job guarantees

A recent and successful Carleton journalism graduate says j-school has a lot to offer students these days, but not the one thing most of them want – a job in journalism.  […]

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24 Aug

Music journalism: Low Fidelity

Smart rock criticism in the dailies was once number one with a bullet. Now the pages are full of boosters who never mind the bollocks. This week we feature Jessica […]

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24 Aug

How to reveal secrets

Whistleblowing can afflict the comfortable, but can also do more harm than good, Stephen J.A. Ward writes. When will sites like WikiLeaks produce a code of ethics? Not long ago, […]

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23 Aug

Getting at the truth in the Mulroney-Schreiber affair

Harvey Cashore has a new book on the stands about the Airbus Affair. It’s called : The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-Year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth About Mulroney, […]

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23 Aug

Interrogation, sensory deprivation and the CIA: A Canadian connection

Thirty-six years ago, Donald Capri was driving across the Redwood Bridge in Winnipeg when he spotted a body floating in the Red River. Police later identified the victim as Prof. […]

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23 Aug

Guidelines for re-posting stories

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23 Aug

Photojournalism ethics

By Carolynne Burkholder Pictures are worth 1,000 words – in the newspaper business that equals about 25 inches of print. Images are one of the most powerful forms of communication, […]

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23 Aug

The ethics of feature writing

In his book, The Bigger Picture, Ivor Shapiro includes a chapter about the ethics of feature writing. In Chapter 10 of The Bigger Picture, Ivor Shapiro writes of “the seductive […]

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23 Aug

Emotion in reporting: use and abuse

Reporters are not automatons, but emotion in journalism can be manipulated, writes Stephen J.A. Ward. When is expression of emotions self-promotion or self-congratulation and when is it true compassion? The […]

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20 Aug

The secret to staying on top (of the news)

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson speaks with the Atlantic Wire about how he stays informed without falling victim to the constant torrent of information. “As a monthly magazine editor, I’m professionally […]

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