Archive
27 Jul

What’s in an anchor?

When CTV and Global both announced, within days of each other, that they had found new hosts for their flagship newscasts, a big part of the storyline drew on the […]

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27 Jul

Riot survival guide for journalists

Freelance journalist Dominik Bärlocher has spent the past three years on “riot duty” at a Swiss newspaper. He’s turned his experience covering violent football riots and May Day protests into […]

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27 Jul

A new kind of journalism

The release of classified information about the Afghan War by WikiLeaks and three news organizations is being described by some as a new form of “assymetrical” journalism. In a column in […]

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26 Jul

WikiLeaks challenges news practices

As military officials, world leaders and politicians debate the impact of the release of  tens of thousands of raw classified field reports on the Afghan war, journalists and those who […]

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26 Jul

“If a big story is available to everyone equally, journalists will pass on it”: Wikileaks

Why did Wikileaks give the Afghanistan war logs to just three publications, instead of letting the world’s journalists decipher them? Founder Julian Assange says that when a story is made […]

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23 Jul

Journalism should save itself: Google

In response to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which said regulations should change to reflect the challenges the internet poses to journalism, Google said journalism should help itself, but hasn’t […]

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21 Jul

Columnist laments glory days of headline writing

Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten writes about the onslaught of strange new multi-platform journalism jobs and the lost art of headline writing. Weingarten writes: “Not very long ago, the typical […]

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21 Jul

Epitaph for Prince Rupert Daily News

Over a hundred years old, Prince Rupert Daily News is one of the papers that will shut down following its acquisition by Black Press. Long-time employee Ann Ferguson wrote an […]

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20 Jul

Police read student journalist’s notes

Student journalist Dylan C. Robertson was taking photos of police on the University of Toronto’s campus during the G20 when he was searched and questioned about the contents of his […]

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20 Jul

How pop culture influences Canadian communication

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon reviews the third volume of How Canadians Communicate, which features a series of essays that  focuses on Canadian pop culture and our nation’s search for identity in a […]

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