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28 Jun

Digital journalist survival guide

From API to cloud computing to XML, PoynterOnline has created an extensive glossary of tech terms every journalist should know. Here’s a selection (but check out the full list for […]

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28 Jun

Time’s best blogs of 2010

Time Magazine‘s annual list of  ‘best blogs’ includes a few journalism blogs, but not many–and certainly no Canadian journalism blogs. Which makes us at J-Source wonder: was it an oversight […]

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24 Jun

Taboo topics welcomed on Twitter

There’s plenty of things we’re not supposed to discuss in polite conversation, but how about on Twitter? Between a live-blogged execution and details of rectal harpoons, you got to wonder: […]

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24 Jun

The Economist: the strange survival of ink

The Economist reports that, despite a dismal series of revenue declines and budget cuts, the newspaper industry still has a few tricks up its sleeve that might save it from […]

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24 Jun

Rolling Stone article made media realize they “kind of sucked”: Jon Stewart

The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart lampoons the media’s surprised reaction to the investigative journalism in Rolling Stone that dethroned General Stanley McChyrstal. A Huffington Post headline summed it well: “Jon […]

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23 Jun

National Post column: Star disgraces memory of Aqsa Parvez

In a column for the National Post, author Tarek Fatah criticizes the Toronto Star for their coverage of the murder of Aqsa Parvez. Read the J-Source article about the press […]

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23 Jun

Old school journalism vs. new school on BBC radio

BBC radio Scotland airs an interesting program pitting an old hack journalist using traditional tools against a younger new media journalist loaded with technology. The idea is to see which […]

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22 Jun

Highway of Tears revisited

Since 1969, 18 women have died or disappeared along a notorious B.C. road. So why is intense, investigative coverage fading along with them? This week we feature Adriana Rolston‘s story […]

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22 Jun

Michael Cooke: “citizen reporters are as close to real reporters as karaoke is to Sinatra”

Accepting the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Excellence in Journalism award, Michael Cooke, editor of the Toronto Star, said: “Is journalism 100 unpaid bloggers all talking and yattering at once, or a […]

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22 Jun

RTNDA conference: CP’s Eric Morrison wins president’s award

CEO of The Canadian Press, Eric Morrison, was presented with the President’s Award at the annual conference of the Association of Electronic Journalists (RTNDA).See more conference coverage here. By Darylann […]

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