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19 Oct

Reconstructing journalism

One of the most comprehensive reports on the future of modern journalism is now online, prior to Tuesday’s official release by the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University. “The […]

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17 Oct

CBC to rebroadcast Basen’s News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media

Beginning Sunday Oct. 18, CBC Radio is rebroadcasting the two-part documentary series News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media. The series, which originally aired in […]

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15 Oct

Manifesto for freelancers: The 12 Steps to Recovery

Montreal-based freelance journalist Nicolas Ritoux decided it was time for freelancers to “reflect on our status” and so he created a manifesto, his survival guide for all freelance writers. Called […]

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15 Oct

Cheese Doodles R Us

The New York Times posted a series of essays about reading electronic documents compared to paper. Asked the Times: “Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in […]

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14 Oct

Creators need to pay creators

Get a musician friend to compose music for free for your audio slideshow or online video: that was one suggestions from multi-media trainer Robb Montgomery of Visualeditors.com at a recent Wordstock seminar. But […]

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13 Oct

What’s next for news: video of panel discussion

On Friday, Oct. 2. Ryerson’s School of Journalism and the Ryerson Journalism Alumni Association (RJAA), in association with J-Source, presented “What’s Next for News? A Conversation About the Future of […]

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12 Oct

White House vs Fox News

Is the U.S. White House “attacking the messenger” — or refusing to pretend that the Fox News Channel news is performing journalism, when it’s really part of the partisan opposition? […]

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8 Oct

Carleton’s Waddell on the Canwest restructuring

Chris Waddell, director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism, took questions about the Canwest restructuring and what it means for the Canadian media landscape during a live online discussion today […]

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6 Oct

Canwest did not intend to be road kill

“We don’t intend to be one of the corpses lying beside the information highway,” says Israel Asper, chairman of Canwest Global.” The CBC archives captured what family head Izzy Asper […]

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6 Oct

Kinsella on Canwest journalists

Blogged Warren Kinsella: “My sincere hope, naïve as it may be, is that the amazing journalists and editors at Canwest hold onto their jobs, and that they emerge stronger than […]

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