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27 Jul

Tough times for women’s mags

“Lady mags are in trouble…Big surprise. Lady mags are dinosaurs,” writes The Tyee‘s Vanessa Richmond in a recent column. She wrote: “Elle‘s ad pages for September are down 21 per […]

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23 Jul

CBC’s Brian Stewart on faith and life as a foreign correspondent: an interview with Christian mag Beacon

Longtime CBC correspondent Brian Stewart recently spoke with Ken Bosveld, publisher of Ontario-based Christian magazine Beacon. Bosveld interviewed Stewart after the after the recently retired CBC foreign correspondent gave a […]

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22 Jul

Banish “off the record” briefings

A movement among U.S. media organizations and journalists seeks “to end the practice whereby officials insist their remarks remain ‘off the record’ at large public events,” reports  Editors Weblog. It […]

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22 Jul

Private data sent to media list

An employee at a British Columbia bank inadvertently emailed a list of hundreds of people’s insurance claims to 75 provincial media outlets, reported CBC. This is a classic blooper, one […]

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17 Jul

Dream job/fantasies

For many of us, journalism was once the ultimate dream job. (And even in dire times, it still is for a lucky or plucky few.) Now the dream has turned […]

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15 Jul

Poynter: How online community benefits the Globe

In one of her recent E-Media Tidbits columns for Poynter Online, Amy Gahran discusses The Globe and Mail‘s use of social media as an example of some of the possibilities […]

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13 Jul

Global webinar on future of media: link

Log into the global discussion on the future of media at www.telekom.hu/mobilemediawebinar. 10:00 a.m. EST Tue., no pre-registration necessary.

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12 Jul

Global future of media discussion: video and Twitter links

Here’s a short promotional video/discussion starter about the global webinar on the future of media, being held this Tuesday at 10:00 EST, with participants from around the world. Your can […]

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10 Jul

Macleans feature looks into changes at the Globe

Maclean’s reporter Anne Kingston’s business piece examining recent changes at The Globe and Mail is now up online. According to former Globe A-section page editor and London Free Press editor […]

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10 Jul

Cryptomnesia: is some plagiarism unconscious?

Plagiarism is one of the great sins in journalism, but could the copying of someone else’s words be unconscious? A recent Newsweek article, “You Didn’t Plagiarize, Your Unconscious Did,” looks […]

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