Archive
10 Aug

“I’m not your errand monkey”: freelancers

If you work from home, you may have already fallen victim to prejudice. Namely, that your office-bound friends and family dump errands and the occasional child on you. In a […]

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10 Aug

China: State of disarray

Chinese stations in Canada well serve their audience with popular fare from Hong Kong and the People’s Republic. Why the same can’t be said of their amateur news shows. This […]

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10 Aug

Riot act: extreme journalism

Swiss journalist Dominik Bärlocher, who covers the riot beat at his newspaper, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a day covering a nasty football riot – including face-punching, macing and […]

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10 Aug

Know thy typeface

A new quiz from mental_floss magazine makes you guess the publication based only on their cover logo typeface. In the “Magazines and Newspapers” edition of mental_floss‘ regular quiz feature called […]

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9 Aug

What if PBS was more like CBC?: Doyle

The Globe and Mail‘s John Doyle writes about the serious (and marginal and obscure) PBS, its loyal and slowly growing audience, and what the next CBC head could learn from […]

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6 Aug

Journalist offered job as spy

Freelance journalist Mary Cuddehe was offered a job as a corporate spy to investigate a major company. She writes in a first-person feature for The Atlantic: “…just then my cell […]

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3 Aug

Focus on Canadian status limbo in JHR film fest doc

Seeking Refuge, the opening film for the Journalists for Human Rights film festival follows the story of five Canadian refugees as they struggle for status. Film expert Nathaniel Laywine reports. […]

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3 Aug

The quitting letter

An employee of a Canadian magazine has written an extensive – and cutting – resignation letter, detailing problems with management and “poor quality” content.” The anonymous employee, who signed off […]

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29 Jul

Magazine classics re-imagined for digital age

What would some of our most beloved magazine stories look like if they were written today? The Pitch re-imagines stories by literary journalism pioneers Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom […]

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29 Jul

WikiLeaks vs NYT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called the New York Times “pusillanimous” and “unprofessional” after the publication chose not to link to the leaked Afghan war log documents directly. NYT chastised […]

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