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20 May

Tyee seeks donations for in-depth reporting

The Tyee hopes to raise $10,000 over the next three weeks to fund investigative or solutions-based reporting on issues affecting British Columbians. There are types of Tyee reporting fellowships: Investigative […]

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20 May

“Tablets are the new reality”: Magazine Canada’s iPad webinar

The first of three pay-per-view webinars from Magazines Canada featured media consultant Wayne MacPhail on the iPad and a new era of magazine publishing. The seminar, titled Magazines on the […]

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20 May

Autojournalist’s son crashes Porsche

In a classic Ferris Bueller move, the 18-year-old son of Globe and Mail autojournalist Peter Cheney crashes a $180,000 Porsche Turbo. In an article titled HOLY #!$%#$!!, Cheney writes: “Take […]

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19 May

The Atlantic on the rise of Bloomberg News

An article published by The Atlantic explores Bloomberg News and why it has become one of the world’s “largest and increasingly influential” news organizations. The Atlantic reports: “By any standard, […]

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19 May

20 questions with the authors of Death and Life of American Journalism

In These Times has published as interview with media critics Robert McChesney and John Nichols about what must be done with journalism’s crisis. In These Times, a politics and economic […]

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19 May

CAJ workshop: Storytelling for Broadcast

Storytelling is at the heart of all good journalism. “Storytelling for Broadcast” is a workshop led by Ryerson University broadcast journalism professor Marsha Barber at the upcoming CAJ conference. Participants […]

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18 May

Canwest newspaper division sale: analysis

Several media columnists have weighed in on Canwest president and CEO Paul Godfrey’s $1.1 billion-bid for Canwest’s newspaper division.  In a press release Canwest said the new ownership plans to […]

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18 May

Is it ‘neutral’ to spread lies?

The Canadian Human Rights Commission has a 100 percent conviction rate for hate speech cases, and rights commissions routinely make bizarre decisions upholding, for instance, the right of fast-food workers […]

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17 May

Journalist entrepreneurs dream big

You can’t call it a dot-com boom – for one, there’s no money – but a new generation of journalism start-ups claim to be heralding in a news revolution, New […]

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17 May

200 moments that transformed journalism

PoynterOnline has created an interactive graphic that chronicles 200 moments that have transformed journalism in the past decade. Poynter Library director David Shedden created the list. Many are drawn from […]

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