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6 Jan

Could Apple’s tablet save print journalism?

As the hype surrounding the rumoured unveiling of an e-reader tablet from Apple Inc. grows, New York Times columnist David Carr jumped into the conversation and suggested the new device […]

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6 Jan

Newspaper articles are too long, says Atlantic columnist

“On the Internet, news articles get to the point,” writes Michael Kinsley, a columnist at The Atlantic. In a recent column titled “Cut this story,” he continues: “Newspaper writing, by […]

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4 Jan

Can Metro Toronto put out a strong paper without staff writers?

Metro Toronto, the biggest commuter paper in the country, has the smallest number of reporters. None, actually, writes reporter and J-Source Students’ Lounge editor Melissa Wilson in a story for […]

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4 Jan

Want my story? Pay for it

After jumping over seats on a passenger airplane to help subdue a suspected bomber, Dutch documentary filmmaker Jasper Schuringa sold his story to CNN for US$10,000. This payment, wrote The […]

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4 Jan

Retirement at risk for thousands of journalists

Brian Brennan’s post on his blog about the Southam travesty, “Lump of coal,” is re-posted here with his permission. Here is the Facebook group he set up for former Southam […]

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22 Dec

Olympic spin … er, media relations

The Seattle Times‘s Ron Judd is not impressed with the media strategy of the organizing committee of the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics, VANOC. “The organization seems hellbent on turning its […]

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22 Dec

New legal defence: “responsible communication”

Few legal judgements make for inspiring reading — but the new libel defence outlined in the Supreme Court of Canada ruling Grant v. Torstar Corp., 2009 SCC 61 is one […]

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21 Dec

Moving on to (better?) things

New York Times science and environment reporter Andrew Revkin is “switching gears for the second half of my professional life.” Revkin wrote in the Times that he’s not abandoning journalism […]

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21 Dec

Journalism is not the media

“Journalism, the practice, is not “the media,”” argues Jay Rosen in a mini-essay about how the practice of journalism has become trapped in media production routines. He says, “We got […]

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17 Dec

Yappy colleagues, translator loses it on air

The title of this youtube  video says it all: “CBC Translator Loses It.”

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