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28 Sep

A Twitter battle over truths

It’s been almost a month since Ontario’s former Attorney General, Michael Bryant, was charged with dangerous driving, and, criminal negligence causing the death of a cyclist, Darcy Allan Sheppard. The […]

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28 Sep

Newspaper readership numbers strong, NADbank study

NADbank Inc., the Newspaper Audience Databank), has released its 2008-09 readership study and the news is pretty good. John Hinds, president and CEO of the Canadian Newspaper Association said (quoted […]

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24 Sep

Models Inc.

Print publications are trying to deal with a variety of issues, including lower advertising sales, changing reader habits and a weak economy. But if they adopted a different business model, […]

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20 Sep

Another model for newspaper survival

David Olive’s new model for newspapers: “shrink the newsprint product to a 32-page broadsheet or tabloid featuring only staff-written feature-length content and the best material available from other publications worldwide.” […]

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20 Sep

War reporting: shades of gray

New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt examined the case of Times’ reporter Stephen Farrell’s kidnapping in Afghanistan — and his rescue by British soldiers which led to the deaths […]

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19 Sep

UGC (User Generated Content) — get used to it

A paper by John Kelly, published online by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, asks, “Is journalism a profession or a trade?” Kelly acknowledges, “It’s […]

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18 Sep

John Elson dies at 78

Canadian-born journalist John T. Elson has died, age 78. He will be remembered by most, perhaps, for his 1966 cover piece for Time, “Is God Dead,” a massive research and […]

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17 Sep

Should suicide be reported?

The Globe and Mail’s Andre Picard reports on the recent suicide of a 19-year-old law student who jumped from a high rise residence at the University of Ottawa, and asks: […]

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14 Sep

Comments as critique

Someone dubbed “Neocynic” is out to embarrass the Globe and Mail for its priorities. The commenter is repeatedly posting sarcastic comments saying that 12 staffers are covering the Toronto International […]

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14 Sep

Scrap “news media”

OK, it’s time to abolish that meaningless term “news media.” I’ve long advocated that we differentiate between different kinds of media, from “junk media” to “quality media” — just as […]

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