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17 Jan

NY Times online expected to charge

The New York Times is expected to begin charging readers for online access this year. A (free) online story in New York Magazine reveals the heated debate between print and […]

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16 Jan

[UPDATED] Ethics of Olympic reporting

Canadian Press reporter Stephanie Levitz wrote a terrific first-person piece about journalism ethics —  and her own ethical dilemma as one of some three dozen journalists who ran with the […]

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14 Jan

Star’s DiManno responds to “uncivil” comments, gets warnings from management

Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno says online and email comments received from readers are “often corrosively uncivilized and deliberately baiting.” And she admits rising to the bait because she  doesn’t […]

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13 Jan

UBC j-school teams with investigative journalism project

The University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism has become the first journalism school in Canada to sign on with DocumentCloud, a new project that aims to index and […]

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13 Jan

Is it worth it?

The death of Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang on patrol with Canadian troops in Afghanistan has produced an outpouring of sympathy from across the Canadian journalism community – not least […]

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12 Jan

Journalism’s “mandatory potlatch”

John Tierney ponders the key question, imo, of the past decade: “When does the wisdom of crowds give way to the meanness of mobs?” Tierney’s New York Times piece today […]

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9 Jan

The new “free” in freelance

A Los Angeles Times column, “Freelance writing’s unfortunate new model,” warns that while everyone has been riveted on the loss of staff jobs, freelancing has been taking a quiet nosedive, […]

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8 Jan

Le Devoir turns 100

Montreal’s Le Devoir reached the century mark today. CBC reported that the French-language daily was founded in 1910 under the promise, paraphrased, to “support honest people and denounce the villains.” […]

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8 Jan

[UPDATED] Canwest papers for sale

Finally, Canada’s largest newspaper chain is officially for sale. Senior lenders to struggling Canwest Global Communications Corp, made up of a consortium of Canadian banks, made a bid. It follows […]

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7 Jan

WaPo faces criticism after printing story from outside source

On Dec. 31, The Washington Post published a news article produced by The Fiscal Times, a Washington-based news start-up that covers the federal budget and deficit-related issues. According to a […]

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