Archive
14 Sep

Tributes pour in for Margaret Philp

Beautiful tributes have been pouring in for Margaret Philp, a Globe and Mail reporter for more than 20 years who died last week at 43. Her family has planned a […]

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13 Sep

Military media monitoring

Canadian government agencies from the military to the Prime Minister’s Office extensively monitor and distribute the work of correspondents covering Afghanistan, reports The Canadian Press. No surprise there, especially with […]

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13 Sep

Turkey and the press

Of the (too many) ways to silence journalists Turkey has added another: censorship by court fine. The New York Times calls a contentious $2.5 billion fine against a media company […]

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12 Sep

Jumping the gun

CNN and Fox cable news reporters in the U.S. jumped on what they thought was a hot story, Coast Guard radio talk about gunfire in the vicinity of that country’s […]

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11 Sep

Wordstock focusing on journalism tools this year

New media expert Robb Montgomery, CEO of Chicago-based Visual Editors Inc., is set to be the main speaker at this year’s Wordstock, an annual professional development day for journalists held […]

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10 Sep

Times reporter freed from captivity, news blackout lifted

New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell is the second Times journalist in the last year to be kidnapped in Afghanistan, and the company kept both kidnappings out of the media […]

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7 Sep

Path to the world at large

“Read a good newspaper … it will be your path to the world at large,” advises James MacGregor Burns, an American professor emeritus, in a New York Times back-to-college column. […]

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3 Sep

Investigative story: $400,000? Investigative journalism: Priceless?

A New York Times editor’s off-the-cuff estimate that a recent NYT magazine cover story cost almost $400,000 to report and edit is sparking wonderment and head-scratching in the journalism community. The story, produced in […]

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3 Sep

Afghanistan propaganda

“Some good news from Afghanistan is that American commanders have wisely canceled a contract with a public relations firm accused of profiling correspondents with negative-to-positive ratings to help determine whether […]

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2 Sep

Hate speech ban ruled unconstitutional

A Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decided that a section of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which bans Internet hate messages, is unconstitutional because it violates free speech protections. Lawyer Richard […]

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