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13 Aug

Off Keillor on journalism

Garrison Keillor’s writing can dazzle. That’s one reason I sometimes read him. Another reason is that his oddball incoherence can free a reader to cherry-pick sentences and ponder them. Take, […]

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13 Aug

100 best blogs for j-students

Learn-gasm, a website about education, has put together a list of the “100 Best Blogs for Journalism Students.“ It’s a solid list of blogs and websites categorized under the following […]

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6 Aug

News Corp to charge for online news

Rupert Murdoch announced his News Corp.-owned publications — which in North America include the Wall Street Journal and The New York Post — will charge for online news, within one […]

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6 Aug

Should the NY Times lose the public editor position?

The public editor position was created at The New York Times after it was discovered that reporter Jayson Blair was making things up. Is the role going to remain a […]

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6 Aug

CBC Newsworld turns 20

As CBC’s 24-hour news channel, Newsworld, celebrates its twentieth anniversary, Toronto Star feature writer Oakland Ross examines the network’s continued search for an identity, in a recent article called “Can […]

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5 Aug

Error prevention advice from Craig Silverman

After The New York Times published a story about Walter Cronkite that contained seven errors, the paper’s public editor Clark Hoyt wrote a column assessing the situation. The Cronkite story […]

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30 Jul

CTV produces news report in 3D

CTV Southwestern Ontario has experimented with a new YouTube offering that allows users to upload video shot simultaneously on two cameras and then makes it 3D. CTV reporter Michael Milling […]

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30 Jul

Can and should investigative journalism save mainstream media?

It’s a provocative question, and that’s the whole point, according to Bilbo Poynter, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting (CCIR). The CCIR is presenting a panel discussion […]

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28 Jul

[UPDATED]New Brunswick paper prints front-page apology to PM

[Note: This post has been updated] The Telegraph-Journal in New Brunswick has published a front-page apology to Prime Minister Stephen Harper for a report that led to a national controversy, […]

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28 Jul

Community newspapers still best place for retail advertising: David Black

As the newspaper industry continues to suffer, David Black, president and CEO of Black Press, is optimistic and keeping his eye out for more buying opportunities, a recent Globe and […]

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