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2 Sep

Are local newscasts really local?

As things shift and change in local newscasts, one Montreal-based blogger took it upon himself to examine a few local newscasts to see what exactly they are airing and how […]

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26 Aug

Canada speaks on Maziar Bahari detention

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has pressed his Iranian counterpart, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, to release detained journalist Maziar Bahari, said news reports. A CBC story is here; Agence […]

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23 Aug

Annie Leibovitz’s “nightmare”

Peerless photographer Annie Leibovitz may be the latest victim of America’s bad debt crisis and nationwide recession — and also, said an Agence France-Presse story, “of her own relentless artistic […]

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21 Aug

Lindhout/Brennan kidnapping anniversary

(This post updated Aug. 22) It’s nearly a year since Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan were kidnapped in Somalia. The families of the freelance journalists released a statement […]

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21 Aug

Emphasize print and move away from the Internet?

Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi makes examines the argument for newspapers shifting away from the Internet and focusing on print in a recent piece for the American Journalism Review. Farhi […]

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19 Aug

Censoring journalists in Afghanistan

Here is the statement from Reporters Without Borders:         MONTREAL, Aug. 19 /CNW Telbec/ – The instructions which the government issued to the media yesterday forbidding them to cover […]

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19 Aug

WaPo shuts down hyperlocal news site, too expensive

The Washington Post is shutting down LoudounExtra.com, an early experiment in hyperlocal news. According to a post on The New York Times blog Bits: “…The Washington Post’s experience proves that […]

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18 Aug

Walrus launches video trailers for magazine features

In an attempt to further promote its magazine features, The Walrus has launched the first in a series of video trailers for it’s cover stories. The trailers are donated by […]

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18 Aug

Amish paper shuns web, continues to do well in print

The Budget, an Amish newspaper mailed to 20,000 subscribers in Canada and the U.S., decided against going on the Internet, plans to add more reporters to its staff and is […]

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14 Aug

Action pulls people out of a crisis, not words

In a recent post, called “The dangers of media navel-gazing,” on True/Slant, Marcelo Ballve asserts that “at a certain stage it becomes counterproductive to self-analyze.” He writes: “There’s so much […]

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