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2 Apr

Pullman’s defence of free speech

Gotta love Philip Pullman: “It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without […]

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1 Apr

Sniffy content?

You’d be an April fool to turn up your nose at the Vancouver Sun‘s “innovative “four-dimensional” newspaper technology project, the first of its kind in the world.” The paper announced […]

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31 Mar

Is the National Post misogynist?

My calendar says it’s 2010. I checked, because exposure to the latest debates about the National Post made me wonder if I’d time-traveled to the 1960s and ’70s. Early this […]

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31 Mar

Long news

Kirk Citron: “In the long run, some stories are going to matter more than others.”

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30 Mar

Spy vs. Lie

Our Man in Tehran, a new book by Robert Wright, suggests Canadian Ken Taylor was a CIA spy, and news outlets were quick to jump on the label. But reviewer […]

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30 Mar

Hot spotlight on weathermen and women

Meteorologists — whose faces are on television as weather forecasters — have become the target of climate change activists because so many in the U.S.  are climate-chance skeptics, reported the […]

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30 Mar

SPJ condemns ABC’s “checkbook journalism”

The Society of Professional Journalists isn’t happy with the “growing trend of checkbook journalism”, and released a statement citing the recent admission that ABC paid the family of a murdered […]

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29 Mar

CBC reporter flies for free

CBC national political reporter Krista Erickson is the subject of debate since it was announced that she is registered as the designated traveller for Calgary Centre Conservative MP Lee Richardson, […]

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17 Mar

Mike Duffy criticizes J-schools

Apparently Mike Duffy is not a Chomsky fan, or perhaps even a j-school fan. As Metro Halifax reports, he slams journalism schools while visiting King’s College.

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16 Mar

Is journalism about hits?

In a Globe and Mail column titled “When journalism is about hits, the craft goes amiss,” Roy MacGregor discusses the dangers of confusing web page hits with circulation. He writes: […]

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